Saturday, January 30, 2010

THE NEW YORK TIMES ON JONATHAN KNIGHT'S EPIC EA DANTE'S INFERNO FAIL: "“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken

THE NEW YORK TIMES ON JONATHAN KNIGHT'S EPIC EA DANTE'S INFERNO GAME FAIL: "“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken, editor of the ge"


“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken,
editor of the geek-culture blog ToplessRobot.com. “They’re not interested in getting kids into literature — they’re not looking to do anything except sell some books to dumb kids.”

Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/television/30inferno.html?pagewanted=2 LOLZ BOOBIESS!!! --JONATHAN KNIGHT Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude

“The story line is not Dante’s, period,” said Teodolinda Barolini, the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University and a former president of the Dante Society of America. “It’s kind of a mishmash of current popular ideas, projected back into the Middle Ages.” --http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/television/30inferno.html?pagewanted=2

Christopher M. McDonough, an associate professor of classical languages at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., was skeptical that the game would encourage more players to read Dante’s work.

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