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UNINA9910971373403321 |
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Autore |
Juhasz Tamas <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination / / Tamas Juhasz |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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979-82-16-30784-6 |
1-283-07180-0 |
9786613071804 |
0-7391-4555-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (389 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrants in literature |
Social contract in literature |
Commerce in literature |
Displacement (Psychology) in literature |
Identity (Psychology) in literature |
Psychoanalysis and literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Commerce and Return in Almayer's Folly; 2 Trans-Ports of Love; 3 Never Keeping to Oneself; 4 Paternal Discourse and Contractual Revision in Under Western Eyes; 5 "The Duel"; 6 A "Supreme Illusion"; 7 Trade, Meaning and the Prospects of Self-Transformation in Lord Jim; 8 The End of Potlatch; 9 Sympathy, Generosity and the Business of Womanhood in Chance; 10 Conclusions and Words after Conrad's; Works Cited; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Combining psychoanalysis, structural and economic anthropology, this book treats Joseph Conrad's interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. This is the first extended academic discussion of the social contract idea in the novelist's fiction. Furthermore, the simultaneous concentration on various fields of circulation (for example finances, dialogues, representations of women, or colonial mechanisms) invites the use of theories (Lacan, LZvi- |
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