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Douglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwright
No full textDouglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwrigh
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
Amerotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal 2014
No full textAmerotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal, 2014 Type species. Typhlops brongersmianus Vanzolini, 1976 (= T. brongersmai; Vanzolini, 1972) Species content. Amerotyphlops amoipira, Am. brongersmianus, Am. costaricensis, Am. lehneri, Am. microstomus, Am. minuisquamus, Am. paucisquamus, Am. reticulatus, Am. stadelmani, Am. tasymicris, Am. tenuis, Am. trinitatus, Am. tycherus, and Am. yonenagae. Diagnosis. Amerotyphlops can be distinguished from all other typhlopoids by the following combination of characters: small- to large-sized (total length 38–522 mm), stout- to slender-bodied (length/width ratio 16–77 but average 20–50) snakes with 16–22 scale rows (with or without reduction), 169–566 total middorsals, and short to long tail (0.7–4.3 % total length) with 5–15 subcaudals (length/width ratio 0.8–1.6). Dorsal and lateral head profiles rounded, narrow to moderate oval rostral (0.22–0.56 head width), preocular in contact with second and third supralabials, eye small with distinct pupil or faint eyespot, T-III SIP, and postoculars 1–3. Lateral tongue papillae absent; left lung absent, tracheal lung paucicameral (with 13–37 pockets) or multicameral (with 16–39 chambers and foramina), cardiac lung unicameral, paucicameral (with 1–7 pockets) or multicameral (with 2–9 chambers) and right lung unicameral, paucicameral (with 3 pockets) or multicameral (with 2–5 chambers); testes unsegmented; hemipenis eversible, lacking retrocloacal sacs, and rectal caecum small (0.9–4.6 % SVL). Coloration yellowishbrown to black dorsally (sometimes uniform or else in the form of darker lines over a light background), usually with immaculate yellow venter, snout and tail often bright yellow, sometimes with a light rostral spot or yellow or white tail ring. Phylogenetic definition. Includes the MRCA of Amerotyphlops brongersmianus and Am. reticulatus and all descendants thereof, and all species more closely related to Am. reticulatus than to the type species of the 15 other typhlopid genera listed here. Etymology. From the geographic distribution of the group in the continental Americas. Distribution. Latin America, from Mexico to northern Argentina. Remarks. Includes the primarily South American continental radiation of typhlopid blindsnakes. These are morphologically and biogeographically distinct from the West Indian radiation (see below).Published as part of Pyron, Robert Alexander & Wallach, Van, 2014, Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 3829 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3829.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/28655
Catwalks and Collecting: Alexander Fury on Westwood and Galliano
No full textFashion journalist, author, and critic Alexander Fury and MFIT Curator Colleen Hill discussed Fury’s latest book, Vivienne Westwood: The Complete Collections (Yale University Press, 2021). The conversation included an overview of highlights from Fury’s personal collection of fashion, which includes designs by Westwood, John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, among others
„... daß einem leid tut, wie er aufgehört hat, deutsch zu sein“ - Alexander von Humboldt, Preußen und Amerika
No full textAbstractWithin the context of the recent „Prussia Tricentennial 2001“, this paper encourages a different view of Prussia by offering a new look on the writings and activities of one of its most famous citizens, Alexander von Humboldt. Starting with the traditional (and problematic) image of Prussia focussed on the Hohenzollern and, above all, Friedrich II, it highlights the problems between Prussian and German historiography on one side, and the author of „Cosmos“ and his world-wide prestige on the other. Interestingly enough, the tensions or misunderstandings between Alexander and his home country can be dated back to the Humboldt family, i.e. to Wilhelm from Humboldt who noted, in a letter to his wife, how his brother had „stopped to be German“. Alexander von Humboldt's cosmopolitanism and the characteristic development of his scientific conceptions, building a globalized and globalizing praxis based upon a scientific network and continous comparisons in global scale, allow us to discover new dimensions in Humboldtian science and thinking as well as promising perspectives for understanding Alexander von Humboldt's role and significance for transdisciplinary science today -and a different view of Prussia and cultural identity in Europe beyond the well-known stereotypes
by Alexander Manshel, and an Interview with the Author
No full textAlexander Manshel talks to the editors about his first book, Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Columbia University Press, 2023), part of which is reprinted here with his permission (Chapter 2: The Making of the Greatest Generation). As the author writes, the book argues that over the last forty years the American literary field has transformed to celebrate narratives of the historical past over all other literary genres. In this period, key literary institutions—from the National Endowment for the Arts to major literary prizes and university English departments—have worked to promote the idea that historical fiction is singular in its artistic seriousness, its pedagogical utility, and its political potency. This shift in literary value has gone hand in hand with the increasing recognition and canonization of Black, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous writers in the United States: that is, the vast majority of minoritized writers who have been consecrated by these institutions over the last four decades have been celebrated for writing about the historical past
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