03169nam 2200673Ia 450 991045703280332120200520144314.01-283-07180-097866130718040-7391-4555-X(CKB)2550000000033174(EBL)683542(OCoLC)721933991(SSID)ssj0000535348(PQKBManifestationID)12160144(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535348(PQKBWorkID)10521986(PQKB)11018334(MiAaPQ)EBC683542(Au-PeEL)EBL683542(CaPaEBR)ebr10464548(CaONFJC)MIL307180(EXLCZ)99255000000003317420110118d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConradian contracts[electronic resource] exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination /Tamás JuhászLanham, Md. Lexington Books20111 online resource (389 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-4553-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorCombining 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-Strauss, Simmel, Polanyi and Bataille) whose potentials for Conrad scholarship have not been exhausted (especially not in combinatImmigrants in literatureSocial contract in literatureCommerce in literatureDisplacement (Psychology) in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literaturePsychoanalysis and literatureElectronic books.Immigrants in literature.Social contract in literature.Commerce in literature.Displacement (Psychology) in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Psychoanalysis and literature.823/.912Juhász Tamás1966-928442MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457032803321Conradian contracts2086786UNINA