Title: Conradian contracts
Description: "The book presents a plausible, carefull reasoned, well-illustrated thesis explaining how displaced characters in Conrad's works seek communal recognition, psychological security, companionship, love, and honor through economic transactions even though their efforts are rewarded only on a conditional basis. To support this thesis, the author calls upon a wide range of theorists, including Marcel Mauss, Claude Levi-Strauss, Karl Polanyi, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Wieslaw Krajka."
Subjects: Social contract in literature, Immigrants in literature, Commerce in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Displacement (Psychology) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Conrad, joseph, 1857-1924
People: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)