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In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You're in the Wrong Place
presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they
cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that "Joseph Harris has a
particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly stunted
lives of the young people there....You're in the Wrong Place isn't
uniformly downbeat-there are all sorts of rays of hope that gleam
toward the end". The book, composed of twelve stories, begins in
the fall of 2008 with the shuttering of Dynamic Fabricating-a
fictional industrial shop located in the Detroit suburb of
Ferndale. Over the next seven years, the shop's former employees -
as well as their friends and families-struggle to find money,
purpose, and levity in a landscape suddenly devoid of work, faith,
and love. In "Would You Rather", a young couple brought together by
Dynamic Fabricating shares a blissful weekend in Northern Michigan,
unaware of the catastrophe that awaits them upon their return home.
In "Acolytes", a devout Catholic clings to her faith as her
brothers descend into cultish soccer violence. In "Memorial", an
ex-Dynamic worker scrapes money together for a tribute to his best
friend, lost to the war in Afghanistan. In "Was It Good for You?" a
cam girl deconstructs materialism with her ageng great aunt, a
luxury sales associate, and an anxious, faceless client. And in the
title story, simmering tensions come to a boil on a hot summer day
for a hardscrabble landscaping crew, hired by the local bank to
maintain the lawns of foreclosures In turns elegiac and harrowing,
You're in the Wrong Place blends lyric intensity with philosophical
eroticism to create a singular, powerful vision of contemporary
American life. Readers of contemporary fiction grounded in place
need to take up this collection.
The notion of « exposure underlies much modern thinking about
identity, representation, ethics, desire and sexuality. This
provocative notion is explored in a collection of essay selected
form, and inspired by, the proceedings of a conference held in the
Department of French at the University of Cambridge in 2002. The
authors engage with exposure as both object and mode of
representation in a range of cultural media: literature, critical
theory, visual art and film. They analyse a variety of works from
the medieval, early-modern, and modern periods, examining not only
canonical texts such as Montaigne's Essais but also lesser-studied
works such as the psychoanalytic theory of Didier Anzieu, the
photomontage self-portraits of Claude Cahun, and the novel La
Nouvelle Pornographie by Marie Nimier. This volume thus both
illustrates and, more importantly, interrogates the richness of the
term « exposure, in a way that is stimulating for students and
researchers alike.
The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the
vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions
of morality in seventeenth-century France Although the Catholic
Church condemned the power of plays to stir up compelling and
irresistible passions, theater flourished in seventeenth-century
France, making it the era's archetypal guilty pleasure. Bringing
together specialists on theater and early modern culture from the
United States, Britain, and France, the editors approach the
intersections of morality, theater, guilt, and pleasure from a
variety of perspectives. Individually and collectively, the
articles in this volume juxtapose theoretical debates with case
studies of actual dramatic practice.
Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance
for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone,
and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that
overwhelmingly emerges here asks hard questions, and the same
strictly defined measures of metre, spelling, onomastics,
semantics, genealogy, and historicity all cry out to be tested
further and applied more broadly to the whole corpus of Old English
verse. Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of
Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford. The datingof Beowulf has been a
central question in Anglo-Saxon studies for the past two centuries,
since it affects not only the interpretation of Beowulf, but also
the trajectory of early English literary history. By exploring
evidence for the poem's date of composition, these essays
contribute to a wide range of pertinent fields, including
historical linguistics, Old English metrics, onomastics, and
textual criticism. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary culture are
likewise examined, as contributors gauge the chronological
significance of the monsters, heroes, history, and theology brought
together in Beowulf. Discussions of methodology and the history of
the discipline also figure prominently in this collection. Overall,
the dating of Beowulf here provides a productive framework for
evaluating evidence and drawing informed conclusions about its
chronological significance. These conclusions enhance our
appreciation of Beowulf and improve our understanding of the poem's
place in literary history. Leonard Neidorf is a Junior Fellow at
the Harvard Society of Fellows. Contributors: Frederick M. Biggs,
Thomas A. Bredehoft, George Clark, Dennis Cronan, Michael D.C.
Drout, Allen J. Frantzen, R.D. Fulk, Megan E. Hartman, Joseph
Harris, Thomas D. Hill, Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom
Shippey
Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance
for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone,
and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that
overwhelmingly emerges here asks hard questions, and the same
strictly defined measures of metre, spelling, onomastics,
semantics, genealogy, and historicity all cry out to be tested
further and applied more broadly to the whole corpus of Old English
verse. Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of
Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford. The datingof Beowulf has been a
central question in Anglo-Saxon studies for the past two centuries,
since it affects not only the interpretation of Beowulf, but also
the trajectory of early English literary history. By exploring
evidence for the poem's date of composition, the essays in this
volume contribute to a wide range of pertinent fields, including
historical linguistics, Old English metrics, onomastics, and
textual criticism. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary culture are
likewise examined, as contributors gauge the chronological
significance of the monsters, heroes, history, and theology brought
together in Beowulf. Discussions of methodology and the history of
the discipline also figure prominently in this collection. Overall,
the dating of Beowulf here provides a productive framework for
evaluating evidence and drawing informed conclusions about its
chronological significance. These conclusions enhance our
appreciation of Beowulf and improve our understanding of the poem's
place in literary history. Leonard Neidorf is a Junior Fellow at
the Harvard Society of Fellows. Contributors: Frederick M. Biggs,
Thomas A. Bredehoft, George Clark, Dennis Cronan, Michael D.C.
Drout, Allen J. Frantzen, R.D. Fulk, Megan E. Hartman, Joseph
Harris, Thomas D. Hill, Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom
Shippey
Comparative studies of a number of mixed prose-and-verse
literatures, from Europe to the Orient, from classical culture to
the 19th century. In virtually all the literary traditions of the
world there are works of verbal art that depend for part of their
effect on the juxtaposition of prose and verse. This volume takes
the first step towards a comparative study of "prosimetrum", the
mixture of prose and verse, with essays by leading linguists and
literary scholars of a selection of prosimetrical traditions. The
nature of what constitutes verse or prose is one underlying
question addressed. An outline of historical developments emerges,
especially for Europe and the Near East, with articles on
classical, medieval and nineteenth-century literatures. Oriental
prosimetrical literatures discussed include that of Vedic Indiaand
the old literary cultures of China and Japan; also represented are
oral and oral-derived folk literatures of recent centuries in
Africa, the West, and Inner Asia. Professor KARL REICHL teaches in
the English Department at the University of Bonn; Professor JOSEPH
HARRIS teaches in the English Department at Harvard University.
Contributors: KRISTIN HANSON, PAUL KIPARSKY, JAN ZIOLKOWSKI, ARDIS
BUTTERFIELD, PROINSIAS Mac CANA, JOSEPH HARRIS, JUDITH RYAN, W.F.H.
NICOLAISEN, LEE HARING, STEVEN WEITZMAN, WOLFHART HEINRICHS, DWIGHT
REYNOLDS, JULIE SCOTT MEISAMI, KARL REICHL, WALTHER HEISSIG
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