Conradian contracts [[electronic resource] ] : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination / / Tamás Juhász

• Autore: Juhász Tamás <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.912
• Soggetto topico: Immigrants in literature; Social contract in literature; Commerce in literature; Displacement (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-Strauss, Simmel, Polanyi and Bataille) whose potentials for Conrad scholarship have not been exhausted (especially not in combinat
• Titolo autorizzato: Conradian contracts
• ISBN: 1-283-07180-0; 9786613071804; 0-7391-4555-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781276203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II