Work, unemployment and the exhaustion of fiction in "Heart of Darkness"
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An argument that "Heart of Darkness" (1902) is an in-depth and timely mediation on the changing nature of work at the turn of the century is presented. "Heart of Darkness" deals with the concept of labor and changing nature of the labor market, which suggests a reversal of the racist confusion and the emergence of unemployment that affect both the employed and the unemployed.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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At the limits of identity: realism and American personhood in Melville's "Confidence-Man"
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An alternative account of Melville's novel "Confidence-Man" is presented to explore the American model of personhood adopted by the confidence-man in order to adapt to social life in a free country. The theory of realism is redefined to recognize freedom as social capital and the identity of person as a dependent rather than an autonomous entity.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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