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    Douglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwright

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    Douglas 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

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    Author'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

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    This 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

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    Correction 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

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    Alexander Woollcott, author and stage actorTo order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order NumberScanned at 600ppi with an Epson 20000 flatbed scanner. Image then rotated, cropped, level-adjusted, and sharpened using Photoshop CS3. Converted to a JPEG2000 image upon ingest into CONTENTdm

    Lori Alexander: Cook Prize 2025, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech

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    Author 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

    Catwalks and Collecting: Alexander Fury on Westwood and Galliano

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    Fashion 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

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    AbstractWithin 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

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    Alexander 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

    Elaine M. Alexander: 2023 Cook Prize Gold Medal Acceptance Speech

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    Author Elaine M. Alexander gives an acceptance speech for Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep, illustrated by Fiona Fogg (Candlewick)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1007/thumbnail.jp
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