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Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination /
This book treats Joseph Conrad's simultaneous interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. The central hypothesis is that the novelist's characters face the option of signing or rejecting what might, with some generalization, be called a social covenant. These indiv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book treats Joseph Conrad's simultaneous interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. The central hypothesis is that the novelist's characters face the option of signing or rejecting what might, with some generalization, be called a social covenant. These individuals conduct a lonely or marginal existence and, to ease their isolation, they would like to (re)enter a community. For this reason, they are ready to contribute to larger collective causes and comply with those restrictions that social life, in its contractual aspect, requires. As Julia Kristeva puts it, " |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739145531 0739145533 9780739145555 073914555X 1283071800 9781283071802 9786613071804 6613071803 |