Arts & Literature

Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.

If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.

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misscherry

Rota'd, Rotad, Rotaed Or Rota-Ed?

Another English question from me please - what's the right way to write rota as a past tense verb? As in, "She's been rota'd to work". Rota'd? Rota-ed? Rotad? Rotaed? They all look weird!...

Atheist

L'histoire D'o

Has anyone here read L'histoire d'O (the Story of O)? My version (English translation) claims to be unexpurgated, but ends without an ending! I find it far more literary than 'Grey'. Fascinating...

Chris38

A Lustre To This Day

I think this is part of a larger work by the composer, Debbie Wiseman. Can anyone tell me what the work is, please?

slotshot777

Color Contrast

What kind of contrast is there between fern green and yellow green?

Poetsguild

Do People Still Buy Poems?

Hi I created a platform where I host all of my poems, we have different themes like love, inspiration, sadness.. We also have video poems which is new and narrative poetry... Would someone pay a small...

misscherry

What Is Syndetic And Asyndetic Listing?

Wasn't sure where to put this, please move if it's in the wrong category. Can anyone please explain to me what syndetic and asyndetic listing means? I'm finding conflicting info so am a bit confused....

tiggerblue10

Happy Birthday Will

Although unconfirmed, it is believed that William Shakespeare was born on 23rd April. So happy 457th birthday :o)

Bert45

Why Is There A B In Lambda?

The greek equivalent of the letter L is called 'lambda'. But why is there a silent 'b' in it? I assume that a Greek person reciting the alphabet would say 'lam-da' just as we say 'double -yoo' for...

Redwen

Musical - Nonsense Poem 9,4

Musical

Khandro

Dante's Divine Comedy

BBC's Katya Adler does a great job of presenting a 3 part programme here on BBC sounds 700 years after Dante's death in 1321 & finds its relevance to modern day life, I've listened to them twice &...

joko

Word For Facial Expressions

what is the word to mean 'facial expression'? I don't mean emotions, like sad, happy etc i mean literal facial expressions, ones that have no other meaning than an action with your face - such as...

badhorsey

1970S Science Book

I had a flashback to a book in our school library, one of those popular-science-for-inquisitive-kids things. It was actually quite interesting - it had photos of Cherenkov radiation around a reactor...