What is a scrivener?
A scrivener is a copier of legal documents.
A scrivener is a copier of legal documents.
Taken from the Greek word semeion, or “sign,” the term “semiotics” had its origins early in the twentieth century, when French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and American philosopher C. S. Peirce called for a new science of signs. Saussure called the discipline “semiology”; Peirce called it “semiotic.” Since then, semiotics as the study of cultural…
The first Augustan Age was in the time of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-14 A.D.), when Latin poets like Vergil, Ovid, and Horace brought about a literary golden age. The second Augustan Age was in the early to mid-eighteenth century in England, when writers such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Richard Steele ushered…
The name of the lover in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was Oliver Mellors, gamekeeper for Lady Chatterley’s husband.
Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).
Boz. Charles Dickens George Eliot. Mary Ann Evans George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair Ellery Queen. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee Stendhal. Marie-Henri Beyle Saki. Hector Hugh Munro Voltaire. Francois-Marie Arouet Maksim Gorki. Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov
Ernest Hemingway won one Pulitzer prize, for The Old Man and the Sea (1952).