G.S.S. is prominent among the small band of scholars who have negotiated ancient Kannada literature from the perspective of a modern literary critic and a historian. He has not evinced much interest in elementary disciplines such as textual criticism and manuscriptology. He has not pursued disciplines like prosody and grammar in a mechanical manner. However, he has examined literary works in their cultural context and made a successful attempt to make them relevant in the modern society. His erudition in Indian Poetics, Western Poetics and literary theory has enabled him to use literary critical tools in the analysis of ancient texts. For instance, his "Kannada Sahitya Sameekshe" is an invaluable attempt of delineating literary history in the context of literary movements and forms. He has written scores of articles on ancient poets of Kannada and most of them are illuminated by critical insights and innovative methodology. His writings on Harihara, Raghavanka, Ratnakaravarni and Pampa are particularly significant. "Kannada Kavigala Kavyakalpane" delineates the literary theory propounded by our ancient poets in their creative texts. "Mahakavya Svaroopa" enunciates the literary genre of the epic, again in the context ancient Kannada literature. He has published an abridged edition of "Shabarashankaravilasa' by Shadakshradeva in collaboration with Prof B.N.Shastry. "Karmayogi" is a novel based on the life of Siddarama the well known Veerashaiva saint of the twelfth century.