An Existential Odyssey: A Study of Women Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novels | Book Publisher International

This book analyses the predicament of women characters in the novels of Manju Kapur from an existentialist’s perspective. In this attempt, the author has examined existentialist themes such as freedom, choice, guilt, alienation anxiety and despair. In this study, an attempt has been made to explain the key philosophical ideas of some of the important existential philosophers like Sartre, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Marcel and Camus. The main ideas of these philosophers find an expression in the novels of Manju Kapur. Like the existentialist, Kapur sees man/woman as a free agent who is free to choose his/her action but this freedom is tied with responsibility.
 
The existentialists highlight man’s (no gender bias implied here) existence, his freedom, choice and responsibility in every walk of life. They underlined the facticity’s of life such as anxiety, despair, freedom, and choice. Thy encouraged men/women to face the truth of their lives to realize their individualities. According to the existentialist thinkers, the problems of the modern society can be addressed by the decisions, and choices that man/woman makes as a free and responsible individual.
 
Kapur’s novels mark an important phase in the growth of existential fiction in India. She is essentially an existentialist writer and deals with existential themes. She explores the human predicament and motives responsible for woman’s action. Existential themes such as freedom, choice, guilt, alienation, anxiety, and despair are highlighted in her novels. All her protagonists start their journey with the freedom of choice. They search for new meaning in this quest for self-discovery.
 
This book deals with the works of Manju Kapur from an existentialist perspective. This work is limited to five novels of Kapur, namely, Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, Immigrant and Custody. The book titled “The Existentialist Predicament of Women Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novels – A Critical Study” critically analyses existentialist issues such as freedom of choice, bad faith, guilt, alienation, anxiety and despair in the novels of Kapur. It is an attempt to study the existentialist predicament of women characters in the novels of Kapur.
 
This book consists of six chapters. In the introductory chapter, the significance of Kapur among Indian women novelists has been highlighted. Chapter two titled “Existentialism: A Philosophical – Literary Perspective” has presented the origin and development of the philosophy of existentialism. The chapter has discussed key philosophical concepts related to existentialism and has also mapped the connection between existentialism and literature.
 
Chapter three titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Freedom of Choice and Bad Faith” focuses on the freedom of choice and Bad faith in the novels of Kapur. Chapter four titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Guilt and Alienation” concentrates on the themes of guilt and alienation with special reference to the novels of Kapur. Chapter five, titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Anxiety and Despair, deals with anxiety and despair in the novels of Kapur. The final chapter is in the form of summing up of the major findings of the study.

Author(s) Details:

Dr. D. N. P. Prema Ponmani,
Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College, K. Narayanapura, Bangalore -560077, Karnataka, India.

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An Assessment of Leadership Styles and Personality Characteristics of the Leaders| Chapter 1 | Current Research in Language, Literature and Education Vol.8

 There are articulations saying 'The school is the head, and the chief is the school'; 'The ensemble is the director, and the director is the ensemble'; and 'When two elephants battle, what endures is the grass'. What do we grasp by these articulations? It is profoundly lamented that there are a few forerunners in South Africa who don't have the constitution booklet of South Africa and are curious about its items. This is mind blowing, yet a reality. A portion of these pioneers, their specialty of talking is inadmissible. They can express anything whenever to their subordinates. A portion of these pioneers like exposure, need to be seen and to be loved. These pioneers can't separate among authority and possession. Some have kicked the bucket, long covered and some are as yet battling to pass on in view of their own precursors. This study looks to decipher the unjustifiable work practice embraced by certain forerunners in both private and public areas, by evaluating chosen authority styles and character attributes of the pioneers. The inquiries raised for this study are: 1) Is the exceptional job of precursors essentially defensive, restorative and pointed toward offering guidance to their living wards? 2) are these pioneers destined to be pioneers? 3) are these pioneers prepared to be pioneers? or on the other hand 4) are these pioneers made to be pioneers? furthermore, 5) What is the power and meaning of predecessors in African practices? The essential sources incorporate oral meetings that were directed through eye to eye cooperation. The meetings were pointed toward evoking direct data on the information on the topic. The auxiliary sources included among others, materials, for example, Journal articles, books and postulations, and obviously private experience. During interviews, it was laid out that a portion of these pioneers are presumptuous, despotic, and forceful due to feeling of inadequacy, heredity, and family issues. Unexpectedly, they need to change over scholarly field in the event of the scholarly world or any working environment into a front line. Closer examination has uncovered that there are pioneers who are not conceived pioneers, need initiative and administrative abilities, and there are pioneers who are assuming a liability to be an honor. The consequences of this study propose that for the smooth running of the division/association and to establish a positive workplace, convention ought to be noticed for the consideration of the administration. It was presumed that a portion of these pioneers were made to be pioneers and are not possessing the necessary experience and capabilities according to promoted positions.

Author(s) Details:

Morakeng Edward Kenneth Lebaka,
Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zululand – KwaDlangezwa Campus, South Africa.

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Responsibility and Valence as Factors in Recognition and Confidence in Recognition of Words | Chapter 02 | Emerging Trends in Disease and Health Research Vol. 5

 As a result of perceived responsibility, both clinical and nonclinical populations may have major cognitive repercussions. Individuals with greater responsibility show a positive memory bias, but also a drop in metamemory for salient stimuli. Stimulus salience increases recall via directive attention but may decrease metamemory, particularly in nervous individuals. Progressive exposure to emotionally salient stimuli has been proposed to impair memory confidence while having no effect on memory accuracy in OCD patients and nonclinical participants with OCD symptoms. Perceived responsibility is associated with a positive memory bias for unfavourable stimuli and decreased memory confidence. The current study investigated the association between responsibility, as judged by the Responsibility Attitude Scale (RAS), recognition, and confidence in recognising words with variable valence in a healthy population. The RAS was administered to 85 healthy participants before to their participation in a word recognition test. The findings revealed that responsibility attitude had no effect on memory accuracy or confidence for words with a negative, positive, or neutral valence. Furthermore, while word valence had no effect on recall confidence, it did influence memory accuracy. The utilisation of responsibility-relevant stimuli is one of the future research implications.

Author(S) Details

Kallia Manoussaki
University of the West of Scotland, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0JB, Scotland.

Evangeli Karali
University of the West of Scotland, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0JB, Scotland.

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