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Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination / Tamás Juhász.
Van Pelt Library PR6005.O4 Z756 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Juhász, Tamás, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Immigrants in literature.
- Social contract in literature.
- Commerce in literature.
- Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 219 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739145531
- 0739145533
- 9780739145555
- 073914555X
- OCLC:
- 697612899
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