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The Resource Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination, Tamás Juhász

Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination, Tamás Juhász

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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, "
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages)
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
Isbn
9786613071804
Instance
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Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination
Title
Conradian contracts
Title remainder
exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination
Statement of responsibility
Tamás Juhász
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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, "
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1966-
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Juhász, Tamás
Dewey number
823/.912
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
PR6005.O4
LC item number
Z756 2011eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Immigrants in literature
  • Social contract in literature
  • Commerce in literature
  • Displacement (Psychology) in literature
  • Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Psychoanalysis and literature
  • Conrad, Joseph
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • Commerce in literature
  • Displacement (Psychology) in literature
  • Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Immigrants in literature
  • Psychoanalysis and literature
  • Social contract in literature
Label
Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination, Tamás Juhász
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index
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online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
721933991
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9786613071804
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unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)721933991
Label
Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination, Tamás Juhász
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
721933991
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9786613071804
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)721933991

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