What is the name of the language spoken by the teenage gangs in A Clockwork Orange (1962)?
The mixture of Russian with American and British slang in A Clockwork Orange is called “Nadsat.”
The mixture of Russian with American and British slang in A Clockwork Orange is called “Nadsat.”
Longinus’s critical treatise On the Sublime was not published in Europe until 1554. The first-century essay was then translated into several languages and gained wide prominence, eventually influencing the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Augean stables that Hercules had to clean held 3,000 cattle and had not been cleaned in thirty years. Cleaning them was the sixth of Hercules’ seven labors. Hercules’ story was told by Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.D.) and Apollodorus (first-second century A . D. ).
Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Massachusetts.
Yes. Roman emperor Caligula banned Homer’s works during his reign (37-41 A.D.) because they were said to promote unhealthy ideas about Greek freedom.
The thirty-second piece Breath by Samuel Beckett has no actors and no dialogue.
In art, gusto is the excitement of the imagination that gives full expression to the dynamic character of an object. According to William Hazlitt (1778-1830) in his essay “On Gusto,” gusto is “power or passion defining any object.” Gusto unites the senses as “the impression made on one sense excites by affinity those of another.”…