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Herschel Gower Papers Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: The Herschel Gower Papers primarily comprises 6.05 linear feet of manuscript materials, which include drafts of an unpublished novel with its title and text changes in various versions. The papers also include manuscripts of his novel Faces in a Nashville Arcade and of his biography of Charles Dahlgren, Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: The Civil War and Dynastic Decline.
Professor Gower was a friend of writer Mildred Haun and her literary executor. His work as an editor of her stories is represented in these papers.
In addition there are articles and research notes and materials concerning Randal McGavock and his descendants, the Howell family and their descendants, and articles and books he wrote on the historic community of Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. There are subject files for his research on folklore, and for the D. Shelby Williams Trial which he used as background for his unpublished novel, and materials relating to poet John Crowe Ransom and author Peter Taylor.
These papers include a collection of correspondence and newspaper articles on the Yeatman and Polk families and their family ties with Gustave Eiffel, builder of the Eiffel Tower. There are fourteen reel to reel and cassette tape recordings, many of them songs recorded by the Scottish singer Jeannie Robertson.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/mss/gowerh/gower-herschel.shtm
Rhinophis lineatus Gower & Maduwage 2011
No full textRhinophis lineatus Gower & Maduwage, 2011 Rhinophis lineatus Gower & Maduwage, 2011: 53. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: CAS 226024. Paratypes: CAS 225806, CAS 226025-226035, and CAS 226042-226044. TYPE LOCALITY. — Harasbedda, near Ragala, Central province, Sri Lanka. ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin lineatus for ‘lined’, referring to the dorsal color-pattern. DISTRIBUTION. — This species is known only from the vicinity of the type locality in the central hills of the wet zone of Sri Lanka, c. 1460 m (Gower & Maduwage 2011; Wallach et al. 2014). DESCRIPTION Maximum total length c. 290 mm, ventrals 182-195, subcaudals 4-7, dorsal scales in 17 rows at midbody (see Gower & Maduwage 2011). Distinctive color-pattern, with regular, narrow, longitudinal stripes (alternating pale/dark) around and along almost the entire body. It is the only species in the genus characterised by a colour pattern of multiple, narrow longitudinal stripes. REMARKS This species was referred to as Rhinophis sp. 1 by Cadle et al. (1990), who demonstrated its distinctiveness using allozyme data. A specimen of this species was mis-labeled as R. drummondhayi by de Silva (1990; see Gower & Maduwage 2011).Published as part of Pyron, Robert Alexander, Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan, Sayyed, Amit, Sharma, Vivek, Wallach, Van & Somaweera, Ruchira, 2016, A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), pp. 453-506 in Zoosystema 38 (4) on page 482, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n4a2, http://zenodo.org/record/457834
Douglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwright
No full textDouglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwrigh
John Gower\u27s Magical Rhetoric
No full textIn Book 6 of the Confessio Amantis, telling the “Tale of Ulysses and Telegonus,” John Gower says of the former, “He was a gret rethorien / He was a gret magicien,” thereby capturing deep connections between rhetoric and magic. The seriously flawed necromancers of Book 6 exemplify only negative connections, however. Ulysses, by embracing verbal trickery and deploying his knowledge of the liberal arts for inferior aims, fails as both hero and speaker. Worse than Ulysses is Nectanabus, whose deceitful “carectes” seem to serve as a critique against spoken enchantments. Later in Book 7, however, Gower recuperates a concept of magical rhetoric. He does so by transitioning from Nectanabus—Alexander the Great’s first tutor—to Aristotle, the more mature conqueror’s adviser. Through allusions to the pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum and Rhetorica ad Alexandrum as well as to Latin translations and commentaries on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Gower outlines a syncretic discipline with the potential to charm audiences with the plain truth. In a lecture on rhetoric’s place among the liberal arts, he insists that persuasive speech is much like the philosopher’s stone or medicinal herbs: all three require incantatory words for great effect, though words are more powerful than other numinous objects. To compose his own incantations and mesmerize his audience, Gower builds in figures of repetition, especially anaphora, as a bolster to a plain style, and he attributes enchanting speech to the Augustinian Word. By casting verbal enchantment in a Christian light, Gower remediates Ulysses’ and Nectanabus’s faults and theorizes a rhetoric that shuns deceit while it charms with the truth
An integrative framework of supervisor responses to workgroup conflict
No full textIt is well-established that prolonged exposure to workplace conflict, as a work stressor, is linked to physical illness and psychological dysfunction in employees (see Spector and Jex, 1998; Romanov, Appelberg, Honkasalo, and Koskenvuo, 1996; Skogstad, Einarsen, Torsheim, Aasland, and Hetland, 2007). In addition to the negative implications for physiological and psychological health, workplace conflict has been shown to influence employee behaviors that have consequences for organizational effectiveness (e.g., turnover and impaired performance; see Bowling and Beehr, 2006; De Dreu and Weingart, 2003). Further, research suggests that managers spend approximately 20 percent of their time managing conflict (Thomas, 1992; Baron, 1989). There also are substantial financial implications associated with workplace conflict. For example, in the United Kingdom, costs at the national level for sickness absence and replacement costs has been estimated to be close to £2 billion per annum (Hoel, Sparks, and Cooper, 2001)
Author inscription in William Hazlitt, essayist and critic; selections from his writings, with a memoir, biographical and critical by Alexander Ireland
No full textAuthor's gift inscription, "To W. C. Hazlitt Esq with kind regards, from Alexr Ireland," with tipped-in review of the book.ASU Library edition has inscription from Ireland to Hazlitt [a child of William Hazlitt?].
Hazlitt , William, 1778-1830.
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
The Author of the Alexander Romance
No full textThis paper, which is based on a portion of the introduction of the author’s edition of Il Romanzo di Alessandro (Mondadori: Fondazione Valla 2007), surveys the generic components of the Alexander Romance in an attempt to arrive at a definition of the work. The argument builds on Merkelbach’s categorisation of elements and uses Fusillo’s insight into the novel as an ‘encyclopaedic genre’ to propose that ‘historical novel’ is not, as Hägg contended, a misnomer for the work. The main components I discuss are: ‘life’; praxeis; chreiai; Cynic elements, including choliambic poetry and utopian perspectives; and the Egyptian aspects of the narrative. A concluding jeu d’esprit offers a characterisation of the putative author, his antecedents and his process of composition.Richard Stoneman was for 25 years editor for classics at Croom Helm and then Routledge. In 1997 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow in the department of classics, University of Exeter. After retiring from publishing in 2006 he has been pursuing his researches on the Alexander legends and teaching a course on the subject at Exeter. His Penguin translation of the Alexander Romance was published in 1991, and a volume of translated Legends of Alexander the Great appeared from Everyman in 1994. Also in 1994 he co-edited Greek Fiction with John Morgan. His edition of the Greek recensions of the Alexander Romance was published (volume I) by the Fondazione Valla in 2007 – volumes II and III will follow over the next few years – and his Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend appeared from Yale University Press in spring 2008. He is the author of a number of other books on Greek history and travel, and is writing a book on oracles
Author Correction: The dengue-specific immune response and antibody identification with machine learning
No full textCorrection to: npj Vaccineshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-023-00788-7, published online 20 January 2024 In this article, the affiliation details for author Alexander Horst were incorrectly given as Alexander Horst1,2 but should have been Alexander Horst1 and other affiliations are renumbered. The original article has been corrected
Alexander Woollcott, author and stage actor
No full textAlexander Woollcott, author and stage actorTo order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see:
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Lori Alexander: Cook Prize 2025, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Lori Alexander gives an acceptance speech for Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park (Calkins Creek)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1017/thumbnail.jp
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