Author: Helen Dewitt File Type: epub At last a new book a bakers dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitts razor-sharp geniusFor sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art worlds piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. Look, a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove more complicated than they had first appeared and at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate. In various ways, each tale carries DeWitts signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.**ReviewBrilliant and inimitable Helen DeWitt patron saint of anyone in the world who has to deal with the crap of those in power who do a terrible job with their power, and who make those who are under their power utterly miserable.Certain stories have something in common with dreams theyre expressions of the creators wish-fulfillment. Helen DeWitts wishes are distinct in American literature??in world literature, as far as I know. - Sheila Heti, *Electric Literature* If theres any author bookish types trust to take them down the twistiest of rabbit holes with humor and winking unpredictability, Helen DeWitt is it. Take the plunge with these 13 short stories. - Elle Magazine In this new collection, DeWitt maps a rangy and verbose urban landscape populated by couch surfers, VC bros, underpaid artists, a guitarist on a walkabout, mathematicians, two seemingly different guys named Gil, obscure European novelists and an itinerant heiress fluent in the tinkering grammars of probability, risk and global finance. - Andrew Durbin, *Frieze* DeWitt knows fourteen languages and is conversant in advanced math and computer code... she has harnessed her coders brain to negative capability. Compulsive and very funny. - Harpers DeWitts wide-ranging intellect makes these stories, but its her sense of humor and profound humanity that make them work. She approaches her weirdos and screw-ups with keen-eyed honesty but also with sincere affection. And the first story, Brutto, has one of the most satisfying closing lines ever. This collection has many delights, but its worth picking up just for that. - Kirkus (starred review) DeWitt is the sort of artist that doesnt back away from her vision, and she takes the reader with her. A polyglot with a PhD in Classics from Oxford, DeWitt wields an immense intellect that, in each of her books, she uses to cynically delight her readers. - LA Review of Books Her books assert (and often attest) that a work of fiction can encompass many kinds of knowledgeprobability theory, scatterplots of data, tables of non-Roman alphabetswithout compromising its form. - Lindsay Gail, *Los Angeles Review of Books* I like dry humor with a stick of dynamite strapped to it. The forthcoming collectionSome Trickby Helen DeWitt, is probably the most recent example. - New York Times Book Review DeWitts manic, brilliant new collection...populated by geniuses and virtuosos, the stories are zanily cerebral and proceed with fractal precision. - New York Times Book Review There is much madness in DeWitts method, a madness of pure logic. Hilarious. - Hermione Hoby, *New York Times Book Review*About the Author Author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, Helen Dewitt knows, in descending order of proficiency, Latin, ancient Greek, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Japanese The self is a set of linguistic patterns, she said. Reading and speaking in another language is like stepping into an alternate history of yourself where all the bad connotations are gone (New York Magazine).

Author: Shahram Khosravi File Type: pdf This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. Although there is a growing literature on detention and deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The book produces knowledge about the consequences of forced removal for deportees adjustment and reintegration in so-called home country. As the pattern of migration changes, new research approaches are needed. This book contributes to establish a more multifaceted picture of criminalization of migration and adds novel aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the field of migration research. **Review Too often deportation has been imagined from the point of view of the states and societies from which people are expelled. But what happens to people after they are deported? What forms of life do they create in the countries to which they are sent? What dangers and challenges do they encounter following removal?Theoretically nuanced, empirically rich, and geographically diverse, the essays collected in After Deportation fundamentally rethink the time and space of deportation. This book greatly enriches our understanding of post-deportation worlds. (William Walters, Professor, Carleton University, Canada) Rich in ethnographic case studies, this excellent volume is part of a growing trend among critical academics who shed light on the other side of deportation. The different chapters trace, document and analyze diverse deportation trajectories, following the lives of those who suffered forceful or voluntarily removal from the societies where they thought and hoped they could live their lives. Contributors manage to strike an inspiring balance between, on the one hand, unique insight into the economic and social hardship that is involved in post-deportation existences, and, on the other hand, astute attention to the creative agency of those who must reinvent their lives after an abrupt physical, emotional and geographical interruption cause by deportation. (Barak Kalir, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) From the Back Cover This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. Although there is a growing literature on detention and deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The book produces knowledge about the consequences of forced removal for deportees adjustment and reintegration in so-called home country. As the pattern of migration changes, new research approaches are needed. This book contributes to establish a more multifaceted picture of criminalization of migration and adds novel aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the field of migration research.

Author: Virginia Crossman File Type: pdf The focus of this study is the poor law system, and the people who used it. Introduced in 1838, the Irish poor law established a nationwide system of poor relief that was administered and financed locally. This book provides the first detailed, comprehensive assessment of the ideological basis and practical operation of the poor law system in the post-Famine period. Analysis of contemporary understandings of poverty is integrated with discussion of local relief practices to uncover the attitudes and responses of those both giving and receiving relief, and the active relationship between them. Local case studies are used to explore key issues such as entitlement and eligibility, as well as the treatment of problem groups such as unmarried mothers and vagrants, thus allowing local and individual experience to enrich our understanding of poverty and welfare in historical context. Previous studies of poverty and welfare in Ireland have concentrated on the measures taken to relieve poverty, and their political context. Little attempt has been made to explore the experience of being poor, or to identify the strategies adopted by poor people to negotiate an inhospitable economic and social climate. This innovative interrogation of poor law records reveals the poor to have been active historical agents making calculated choices about how, when and where to apply for aid. Approaching welfare as a process, the book provides a deeper and more wide ranging assessment of the Irish poor law than any study previously undertaken and represents a major milestone in Irish economic and social history. **

Author: James E. G. Zetzel File Type: pdf span orphans 2 widows 2To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets were the two standard duties of Roman teachers, and philology-the study of Latin language and texts-was important at Rome. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latins history and importance contributed to the Romans sense of their larger cultural identity. In this important and original study James Zetzel traces the changing role and status of Latin as revealed in the ways it was explained and taught by the Romans themselves. Zetzel explores ideas about the origins of Latin and the nature of linguistic correctness he provides an innovative account of the interconnections in Rome among philology, philosophy, rhetoric, law, and religion (both classical and Christian) and he charts the transformations of the Latin language and methods of instruction as the people using Latin became increasingly remote from its Roman origins in the Greek East, in the Roman and then Vandal North Africa, Visigothic Spain, and ultimately Ireland, where a rich and exotic Christian understanding of Latin flourished in the seventh and eighth centuries.spanbr orphans 2 widows 2br orphans 2 widows 2span orphans 2 widows 2Critics, Compilers, and Commentatorsspanspan orphans 2 widows 2is the first comprehensive introduction to the history, forms, and texts of Roman philology. A great many Latin dictionaries, glossaries, commentaries, grammars, metrical handbooks, and other forms of scholarship survive from antiquity and the early middle ages, some unpublished and many of them difficult to find and identify. Zetzel provides a descriptive bibliography of hundreds of them, listing editions, translations, and secondary literature. This book recovers a neglected but crucial area of Roman intellectual life, and it will be an essential resource for students of Roman literature and intellectual history, medievalists, and historians of education and language science.span