Iris Murdoch: Melodrama and Metaphysics is a path-breaking study of the twin inter-related themes of metaphysics and melodrama in the novels of Iris Murdoch, a prolific modern British novelist. The book, while dealing with the vast amount of criticism available on the novelist, seeks to find answer to such vexed questions as whether the apparently different genres of philosophy and melodrama can be converged into a successful novel?, Is a novelist justified in ...