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1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Commerce and return in Almayer's folly -- "Trans-ports of love": exchange as practice and narrative -- Never keeping to oneself: a total social fact in "Typhoon" and "The secret sharer" -- Paternal discourse and contractual revision in Under western eyes -- "The duel": rules and reciprocities, or blows for sheer love -- A "supreme illusion": acts of recognition in The secret agent -- Trade, meaning and the prospects of self-transformation in Lord Jim -- The end of potlatching: gift and prestige in Nostromo -- Sympathy, generosity and the business of womanhood in Chance -- Conclusions and words after Conrad's. |
| Summary |
This book treats Joseph Conrad's simultaneous interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. The central hypothesis is that the novelist's characters face the option of signing or rejecting what might, with some generalization, be called a social covenant. These individuals conduct a lonely or marginal existence and, to ease their isolation, they would like to (re)enter a community. For this reason, they are ready to contribute to larger collective causes and comply with those restrictions that social life, in its contractual aspect, requires. As Julia Kristeva puts it, " |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Immigrants in literature.
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Immigrants in literature. |
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Social contract in literature.
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Social contract in literature. |
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Commerce in literature.
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Commerce in literature. |
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Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
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Displacement (Psychology) in literature. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Juhász, Tamás, 1966- Conradian contracts. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011 9780739145531 (DLC) 2011001451 (OCoLC)697612899 |
| ISBN |
9780739145531 (electronic book) |
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0739145533 (electronic book) |
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9780739145555 (electronic book) |
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073914555X (electronic book) |
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