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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.
Joseph Harris (1704-64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer
and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to
the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal. He spent some
time making astronomical observations in South America and the West
Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice,
proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very
popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He
later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales. Harris entered
the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749.
This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist
J. R. McCulloch as 'one of the best and most valuable treatises on
the subject of money that has ever seen the light', argues that it
is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in
its coinage remains constant.
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
Born in rural Wales, to which he always felt a close connection,
Joseph Harris (c.1704-64) moved to London in 1724, presenting the
Astronomer Royal, Edmond Halley, with a testimonial of his
mathematical ability. Harris then found work as an astronomer and
teaching of navigation; his observations of magnetism and solar
eclipses taken in Vera Cruz in 1726 and 1727 were relayed to the
Royal Society by Halley. Harris' illustrated introduction to the
solar system was originally printed for the instrument-maker Thomas
Wright and the globe-maker Richard Cushee; it is here reissued in
its 1731 first edition. Clearly describing the use of astronomical
apparatus such as globes and orreries, it proved very popular,
going through fourteen printings by 1793. Harris starts with an
overview of the solar system and the fixed stars, and then shows
how to solve astronomical problems using globes and orreries.
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
At a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make
health care and medicine available to everyone, why do
resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal
health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to
democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark
policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to
prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on
firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues,
Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal
healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three
major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but
related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers
elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for
universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is
situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and
public health and will speak to scholars with interests in health
policy, comparative politics, social policy, and democracy in the
developing world. In light of the growing interest in health
insurance generated by implementation of the Affordable Care Act
(as well as the coming changes poised to be made to it), Achieving
Access will also be useful to policymakers in developing countries
and officials working on health policy in the United States.
This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of
Joseph Harris's most important essays underscores the range of his
work from critical readings of canonical texts to philological
elucidation of Old Norse and Old English literary works to
discussions of larger theoretical issues such as oral theory. One
of the central problems of medieval literary scholarship is the
aesthetics of traditional and oral literature, and how and whether
one can meaningfully discuss the literary history of an oral genre.
Harris's studies of such topics as the Old Norse short narrative
and of the Masterbuilder tale focus precisely on such problems and
offer brilliant readings of specific texts as well as models of
literary historical discourse. "Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing"
also shows that Harris's work frequently bridges the divide between
the Latin and Christian sources and the native vernacular
traditions that together found their way into Old Norse and Old
English literature.For more about the Islandica series, visit http:
//cip.cornell.edu/Islandica
At a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make
health care and medicine available to everyone, why do
resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal
health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to
democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark
policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to
prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on
firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues,
Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal
healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three
major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but
related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers
elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for
universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is
situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and
public health and will speak to scholars with interests in health
policy, comparative politics, social policy, and democracy in the
developing world. In light of the growing interest in health
insurance generated by implementation of the Affordable Care Act
(as well as the coming changes poised to be made to it), Achieving
Access will also be useful to policymakers in developing countries
and officials working on health policy in the United States.
This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of
Joseph Harris's most important essays underscores the range of his
work from critical readings of canonical texts to philological
elucidation of Old Norse and Old English literary works to
discussions of larger theoretical issues such as oral theory. One
of the central problems of medieval literary scholarship is the
aesthetics of traditional and oral literature, and how and whether
one can meaningfully discuss the literary history of an oral genre.
Harris's studies of such topics as the Old Norse short narrative
and of the Masterbuilder tale focus precisely on such problems and
offer brilliant readings of specific texts as well as models of
literary historical discourse. "Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing"
also shows that Harris's work frequently bridges the divide between
the Latin and Christian sources and the native vernacular
traditions that together found their way into Old Norse and Old
English literature.For more about the Islandica series, visit http:
//cip.cornell.edu/Islandica
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
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.
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