Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook - Couverture souple

Schmelling, Sarah

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ISBN 10 : 0452295734 ISBN 13 : 9780452295735

Editeur : Plume, 2009

Synopsis

Read Sarah Schmelling's posts on the Penguin Blog. When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed "Hamlet " into a Facebook news feed on "McSweeney's," it launched the next big humor trend--Facebook lit. In this world, the king "pokes" the queen, Hamlet becomes a fan of daggers, and Ophelia renounces her interest in moody princes. Now, what began as an internet phenomenon is a book. "Ophelia Joined The Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook" is a clever spoof of the most-trafficked social networking website and a playful game of literary who's who. The book brings more than fifty authors and stories from classic literature back to life and online, and it is sure to have book lovers and Facebook addicts alike twittering with joy. From "The Odyssey " to The "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pride and Prejudice " to "Lolita," Schmelling brings the conventions of social networking--profile pages, status updates, news feeds, games and quizzes--to some of literature's most well-known works, authors and characters. What would Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen or James Joyce post on their "walls"? What would Gulliver, Miss Havisham or Captain Ahab say in a status update? After William Shakespeare welcomes all of these players into his network, mayhem quickly ensues: Elizabeth Bennet throws a sheep at Mr. Darcy Hamlet posts an event: A Play That's Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family Jane Eyre listens to "Hard Knock Life" on repeat The "Lord of the Flies " boys form a reunion group Ernest Hemingway questions the validity of the "Are you a real man?" quiz Mark Twain infiltrates Oscar Wilde's profile page and challenges him to a "quip off" Oedipus works on his family treeFollowing everyone from Frankenstein's Monster to King Lear's Fool, Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf, "Ophelia Joined The Group Maidens Who Don't Float " is a loving spoof of our literary favorites, and a hilarious collection for a twenty-first century generation of readers. Long liv

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sarah Schmelling has written about entertainment, travel, and pop culture for The Washington Post, Spin, Paste, Salon, Newsweek, Real Simple, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, McSweeney’s, and The Huffington Post. She lives with her husband and son outside of Washington, DC. Ophelia Joined The Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs On To Facebook is her first book.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Plume
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0452295734
• ISBN 13: 9780452295735
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288