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- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- ABBREVIATIONS
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- I. The Sacred and the Profane
- Attitude to Myths and Religion
- Myth Defined
- Myth used in Literature
- Isvarans Use of Myths
- Mythological Facts as Idioms
- Love of Philosophy
- Hindu Rituals and Ceremonies
- Belief in Astrology and Palmistry
- Advaita
- Lord Siva
- Belief in the Supernatural
- A Critic of Superstitions
- Faith in Pre-Ordained Fate
- High Sense of Morality
- Attitude to Marriage, Women and Family
- Concept of Love
- Ideal Womanhood
- II. Social Criticism and Reformative Zeal
- Adoration of Mahatma Gandhi
- Antipathy for Politicians
- Vision of a Free India
- Attack on Social Evils - Caste System, Sati and Feudal System of Land Ownership
- Apathy for War
- Contempt for Cinema Artists
- Attack on the Fourth Estate
- Criticism of Law and its Practices
- Medical Profession
- Religious Pretensions
- Like Hardy Isvaran asks
- Drinking
- Advertisements
- Prostitution
- Common Man
- Attitude to Pretensions and Hypocrisies
- Nature of FIumour and Devices Employed
- III. Method, Technique and Language
- Isvarans concept of Form and Technique
- Different Points of View
- Old Method of Story Telling
- Scenic and Panoramic Methods
- Mystery and Atmosphere
- Dramatic
- Moralisation
- Omniscient Narration
- Stream of Consciousness Technique
- Montage Technique
- The Contrasted Moods
- His Strength and Weakness
- Journalistic Approach
- Use of Symbolic Images
- Beginnings of Stories
- Appropriate Titles
- The Technique of Juxtaposition
- Structural Analysis of the Poem
- Story of Siva Ratri reduced to a skeleton to show the Juxtaposition of themes.
- Contrast
- Repetition and Parallelism
- Personification
- Repetition of Images
- Language of Isvaran
- Style
- Quotations from other writers
- IV. Illusion and Reality
- Regionalism
- Love for the Rural
- A Realist
- Real Events and Real Characters
- Bourgeois Writer
- Two Types of Stories
- Characters Set in their Natural Environments
- Wide Variety of Characters
- Male Domineering Society
- Middle Class Women and Lower Class Women
- Types of Women Characters
- Love as a Good Trait in Character
- Marital Unions
- Sharply Divided Characters
- Character as Psychological Studies
- Children in Isvaran
- The Sun, The Moon and The Stars
- Death, Often Repeated
- sensation of Silence
- Sound
- A Man of Diversified Interests
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX I Extracts of my interview with Mrs. Annapurna Isvaran
- APPENDIX II Specimen of Isvarans handwriting fromhis essay
- BIBILIOGRAPHY