TY - BOOK AU - Pattanaik Bhubanananda TI - Exploring Metaphysics: The novels of Iris Murdoch SN - 978-81-8435-329-7 U1 - 823.91409 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors N1 - 1. Introduction: Life, Art and Philosophy 2. The Fifties: Under the net of concepts 3. The sixties: form and contingency 4. The seventies: Between fiction and Metafiction 5. The Eighties: The centrifugal consciousness 6.The Nineties: Alzheimer and Quotidian Mnemonics 7. Conclusion N2 - This book is a celebration of the charm and fascination of reading the novels of Iris Murdoch. It is an attempt to relate her craftsmanship to her moral philosophy. As her philosophy underwent a change, her concerns of theme and craft changed and this process continued till her last. But in spite of various twists and turns her realistic zeal never takes the back seat. It is eternally present in her novels as an important component of her craft complementing her experimental dimensions, and preventing obfuscation of thematic patterns ER -