Comments on: Condensed Classic Literature http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature A Site About Everything and Nothing Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:11:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Condensed Classic Literature by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3551 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:48:39 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3551 Dino you raise some interesting and important points. I would hope that the editing would be limited strictly to cutting out extraneous matter. I should not want to see anything actually 'rewritten' as it were. Certainly nothing should be updated, especially in the name of bloody political correctness ! Dino
you raise some interesting and important points.
I would hope that the editing would be limited strictly to cutting out extraneous matter. I should not want to see anything actually ‘rewritten’ as it were.

Certainly nothing should be updated, especially in the name of bloody political correctness !

]]> Comment on Condensed Classic Literature by: the dinosaur http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3546 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:10:05 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3546 I agree that many great works of literature written for previous generations are not palatable to the modern reader and it is a shame if that means they are getting neglected and forgotten, so perhaps a condensed version has a chance of success- however I foresee a danger! In the process of editing there will be a temptation to impose modern interpretation and political correctness, I hate to see history being rewritten as it often is in the present times, it would be shameful for the great voices of the past who talk to us through books to be misquoted too. Whoever edits the book should put their name to it and accept the responsability, the edited version must never be used educationally either or it will overshadow the original in the future. I agree that many great works of literature written for previous generations are not palatable to the modern reader and it is a shame if that means they are getting neglected and forgotten, so perhaps a condensed version has a chance of success- however I foresee a danger! In the process of editing there will be a temptation to impose modern interpretation and political correctness, I hate to see history being rewritten as it often is in the present times, it would be shameful for the great voices of the past who talk to us through books to be misquoted too. Whoever edits the book should put their name to it and accept the responsability, the edited version must never be used educationally either or it will overshadow the original in the future.

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