Alexander Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5003330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxfam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8708-6091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1892 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Story of Psammenitus from Herodotus to Walter Benjamin
Following a thread in Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Storyteller’, the article gives sustained attention to a comparatively understudied tale in Herodotus’ Histories, the embarrassment of the Egyptian king Psammenitus by Cambyses at 3.14. I give an in-depth account of the literary quality of the passage, its place in Herodotus’ Histories, and its sometimes surprising legacy in Aristotle, Erasmus (briefly), Montaigne, and Benjamin himself. Central to th…
‘To be avoided by every correct Writer’
Robert Baker is generally acknowledged to have written the first English usage guide in 1770, but in 1752, George Harris published a short pamphlet called Observations upon the English Language in a Letter to Friend that shares many features of a usage guide. Though smaller than Baker’s book, Harris’s pamphlet nonetheless collects some 66–126 usage items (depending on how one counts categories and instances) and pronounces his preference for one …
Back to the basics
Researchers have invested a great deal in creating reliable, “gold-standard” creativity assessments that can be administered in controlled laboratory settings, though these efforts have come at the cost of not using ecologically and face-valid tasks. To help fill this critical gap, we developed and implemented a novel, face-valid paradigm that required participants to paint abstract pieces of art, which were later rated for creative quality. We f…
Shakespeare and Plautus
Scholars have recognized for some time that Shakespeare’s early comedies drew much from Plautine comedy. Although these points of influence have long been established, discussion of Plautus’ influence on Shakespeare has not often moved beyond them to broader questions of whether he had any influence over Shakespeare’s tragedies, over his later career in general, or over more specific techniques of playwriting, like characterization or metrical co…
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Afro-American Folk-Lore
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Afro-American Folk-Lore
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Back to the basics
Researchers have invested a great deal in creating reliable, “gold-standard” creativity assessments that can be administered in controlled laboratory settings, though these efforts have come at the cost of not using ecologically and face-valid tasks. To help fill this critical gap, we developed and implemented a novel, face-valid paradigm that required participants to paint abstract pieces of art, which were later rated for creative quality. We f…
Shakespeare and Plautus
Scholars have recognized for some time that Shakespeare’s early comedies drew much from Plautine comedy. Although these points of influence have long been established, discussion of Plautus’ influence on Shakespeare has not often moved beyond them to broader questions of whether he had any influence over Shakespeare’s tragedies, over his later career in general, or over more specific techniques of playwriting, like characterization or metrical co…
‘To be avoided by every correct Writer’
Robert Baker is generally acknowledged to have written the first English usage guide in 1770, but in 1752, George Harris published a short pamphlet called Observations upon the English Language in a Letter to Friend that shares many features of a usage guide. Though smaller than Baker’s book, Harris’s pamphlet nonetheless collects some 66–126 usage items (depending on how one counts categories and instances) and pronounces his preference for one …
The Story of Psammenitus from Herodotus to Walter Benjamin
Following a thread in Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Storyteller’, the article gives sustained attention to a comparatively understudied tale in Herodotus’ Histories, the embarrassment of the Egyptian king Psammenitus by Cambyses at 3.14. I give an in-depth account of the literary quality of the passage, its place in Herodotus’ Histories, and its sometimes surprising legacy in Aristotle, Erasmus (briefly), Montaigne, and Benjamin himself. Central to th…
Computer Science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 work) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work)