English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1629 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark
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The idea
Iris Murdoch, a novelist and philosopher, wrote Under the Net and won the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. Muriel Spark, a Catholic convert born in Edinburgh, wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, of nineteen sixty-one, about a teacher and her chosen "Brodie set," with flash-forwards revealing a betrayal.
In practice
A philosopher; a teacher's set.
Where people slip
Spark's flash-forwards reveal the ending early.
Your place on the trail
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