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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Commerce and return in Almayer's folly
- "Trans-ports of love": exchange as practice and narrative
- Never keeping to oneself: a total social fact in "Typhoon" and "The secret sharer"
- Paternal discourse and contractual revision in Under western eyes
- "The duel": rules and reciprocities, or blows for sheer love
- A "supreme illusion": acts of recognition in The secret agent
- Trade, meaning and the prospects of self-transformation in Lord Jim
- The end of potlatching: gift and prestige in Nostromo
- Sympathy, generosity and the business of womanhood in Chance
- Conclusions and words after Conrad's.