LEADER 03159nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910971373403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-82-16-30784-6 010 $a1-283-07180-0 010 $a9786613071804 010 $a0-7391-4555-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000033174 035 $a(EBL)683542 035 $a(OCoLC)721933991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12160144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10521986 035 $a(PQKB)11018334 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL683542 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10464548 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL307180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC683542 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000033174 100 $a20110118d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConradian contracts $eexchange and identity in the immigrant imagination /$fTamas Juhasz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (389 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-7391-4553-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface; 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 330 $aCombining 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 combinat 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aSocial contract in literature 606 $aCommerce in literature 606 $aDisplacement (Psychology) in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aSocial contract in literature. 615 0$aCommerce in literature. 615 0$aDisplacement (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature. 676 $a823/.912 700 $aJuhasz$b Tamas$f1966-$01855240 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971373403321 996 $aConradian contracts$94453332 997 $aUNINA