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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Noletto, Israel A. C

Titel

NADSAT - THE LANGUAGE OF VIOLENCE: FROM NOVEL TO FILM

Ist Teil von

• Ilha do Desterro, 2017-01, Vol.70 (1), p.257-264

Ort / Verlag

Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC Centro de Comunicação e Expressão

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Everything in it fits accordingly - scenography, casting, photography, costume design and music - to create an apparently distant environment, a chaotic and dark world in which Alex, a British youngster leads a delinquent group of adolescents who go out in the night chasing and beating up people under the effect of hallucinogens, always in a mood of sarcasm and reckless entertainment. he aim of the present article is thus to examine the author's artificial language, its occurrences in the novel as well as in the filmic adaptation following the contributions of Gualda (2010) and Hutchings (1991) to film studies, while tracing the glossopoeia's meanings and effects on the audience, and how both the author and director seem to manipulate the implications of the reception theory as formulated by Wolfgang Iser (1978). he questions answered by this article are whether the role played by Nadsat in the novel corresponds to that played in the film; and what the implications of Iser's reception theory in the novel and the film are. he results will show that without an understanding of Nadsat the reader/viewer will not be able to fill the gaps of interpretation left by Burgess and Kubrick. his line of thought agrees with Iser (10) who states that the literary text derives from an author's reaction to the world and becomes reality as it brings forth to the present world a perspective that does not exist in it: subjectivity. [...]questionings are quintessential to the aesthetic of effect; and through them, the interaction between text and context, as much as between text and reader, constitutes the object of attention (Iser 13). [...]the literary and filmic texts caused in the public a race to the bookshops and cinemas in order to prove the commentaries and critiques, by the time of the publication of the written form and the exhibition of the film based on the novel. [...]the importance of a glossopoeia in the plot should not be disregarded. [...]a widely known phrase uttered by renowned Canadian Philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1964) can effusively describe what usually occurs in the beautiful relationship between glossopoesis and literature: "the medium is the message".