Carson JeremaTurning classic novels into “Twitterature”
College roommates rewrite Dante, Shakespeare and others ― 140 characters at a time
Did you ever feel that Hamlet was too wordy? Was Moby Dick too long?
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that someone has “found a solution” to your problems. That someone is a pair of first-year University of Chicago students who have signed a book deal with Penguin Books to rewrite 75 classic novels and plays as “Twitterature.”
Nineteen-year-old roommates Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin will rewrite classics by Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dante and other literary greats, and plan to do so in 20 or fewer 140-character tweets.
“Imagine if Achilles had a Twitter account and an iPhone, and he was telling his story in real time,” says Aciman, a comparative literature major from New York. “That’s what this book is going to be like.”
The students claim to have already read all the books they plan on tweeting. That is, except for the popular teen vampire novel Twilight. “A modern classic,” deadpans Rensin, a philosophy major from California.
University of Chicago literature professor W.J.T. Mitchell is backing the project. “This is exactly the kind of thing you’d expect University of Chicago students to come up with.”
What do you think? Are you horrified? Think it’s a great idea? Let us know.
Funny how there's always a video camera following this guy. It would seem that he's looking to provoke people ...
the officer was walking back to his car and he was harassed...he did his job...I wish people would stop saying ...
I would agree with Mr. Tennants statement that the colleges have nothing to lose. And this, in my opinion ...
Please see this report
http://uofowatch.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-vp-governance-diane-davidson-and.html
about the University of Ottawa's extensive COVER UP of its 2006-2008 covert surveillance campaign against me and ...
I didn't forget anything...Full-time faculty will have a new max. of $102,000. We have that thrown up to us ...
Pingback by “I will Twitter the Constitution of the United States of America. And the Bill of Rights.” « OnParkStreet on 12 July 2009:
[...] Nineteen-year-old roommates Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin will rewrite classics by Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dante and other literary greats, and plan to do so in 20 or fewer 140-character tweets. [...]
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Comment by Twitter.com/whodunit140 on 10 December 2009:
It’s a great idea. Will encourage people to read the real books.
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