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Literatuur als Twitteratuur: literatuuronderwijs en nieuwe media

Elke D’hoker

8 November 2017

Faculteit Letteren – OE Literatuurwetenschap2

• Digitale media / hedendaagse cultuur

• Literatuur:

• vorm en inhoud

• creativiteit door beperking

• Creatief schrijven

Waarom Twitteratuur?


= “literatuur in twitterformaat; literatuur die verkort uitgegeven wordt in de vorm van maximaal twintig tweets, twitterberichten” (ANW online)

< Twitterature: literary uses of Twitter

~ Twitter fiction: forms of storytelling using Twitter

= werken met een literair aspect die Twitter als creatie-en/of publicatiemedium gebruiken

Wat is Twitteratuur


herwerking / publicatie creatie

één tweet meerdere tweets

één auteur meerdere auteurs

Twitteratuur: verschillende vormen


Herwerking“The best way to understand electronic

writing today is to see it as a remediation of printed text.”

(Bolter, Writing Space 2001)

“Twitterature provides everything you need to master the literature of the civilized world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it”

75e boekenweek 2010: Twitteratuur (Nederland)


Hamlet by William Shakespeare@OedipusGothplex

My royal father gone and nobody seems to care.

Mom says to stop wearing black.

STOP TRYING TO CONTROL ME. I won't conform! I wish my skin would just … melt.

I'm too sad to notice that Ophelia's so sexy and fine. And mother also looks rather fair despite all her struggles.

AN APPARITION! This shit just got HEAVY. Apparently people don't accidentally fall on bottles of poison.

Why is Claudius telling me what to do again? YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! In fact you killed my real dad. :(

2bornt2b? Can one tweet beyond the mortal coil?

I wrote a play. I hope everyone comes tonight! 7pm! Tickets are free w/ great sense of irony.

Uncle just confessed to Dad's murder.

I had a knife to that fat asshole but bitched out. Now he's alive and still taking to bed with that beautiful wo— … er, my mother.


• Microfiction:

Twitteratuur in één Tweet

Sean Hill at https://twitter.com/VeryShortStory

Nanoism (edited by Ben White / @midnightstories) is an online publication for twitter-fiction: stories of up to 140 charactershttp://nanoism.net/


• Teju Cole, “Small Fates” < Felix Fénéon, “Faits Divers” in Nouvelles en Trois Lignes


https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/teju-coles-small-fates


• Teju Cole, “Drone Stories”


http://www.tejucole.com/


• Twaiku’s



Twitteratuur in meerdere Tweets

“Ulysses (@booktwo)”9 months 2007James Bridle

“The French Revolution” 3700 tweets 2009Matt Stewart


Twitteratuur in meerdere Tweets

Kortverhalen

• Rick Moody, “Some Contemporary Characters” (2009), Electric Literature .

• Jennifer Egan, “Black Box” (2012), The New Yorker

• David Mitchell, “The Right Sort” (2014), Sceptre Books en The Guardian.


Collaborative Twitterature

Eerste zin: "Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled and said, 'We don't love you anymore”

@TWfictionfest

Twitter is where the world tells its stories all day, every day.

#TwitterFiction Festival is about embracing, exploring, and developing the art of storytelling on Twitter.


Rick Moody, “Some Contemporary Characters”

“absolutely written ground up on Twitter,

for Twitter, about Twitter,

with the character

counter page open the

whole time, to keep me from going OVER,”


Rick Moody, “Some Contemporary Characters”


Jennifer Egan, “Black Box”

“VPRO Boeken (@VPROBoeken) twittert Black Box van maandag 6

januari t/m vrijdag 10 januari tussen 22.00

en 0.00 uur. De vertaling is van Ton Heuvelmans. Het verhaal verschijnt niet in boekvorm.”

https://storify.com/VPROboeken/jennifer-egan-black-box-twitteratuur

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box-2

“Well, I write fiction by hand generally, and I actually wrote this by hand. Although when I started trying to do it, it didn’t feel right to be writing these long lines. I noticed that a friend had a notebook that had eight rectangular boxes on each page […] So I wrote the story by hand, with each paragraph in one of these rectangular boxes. And I followed my usual regimen, which

was to try to fill five to seven pages of those rectangles a day”. (New Yorker interview over “Black Box”)


Never contradict your Designated Mate.

“Where did you grow up?,” asked of a man who has just asked you the same thing, is known as “mirroring.”

Mirror your Designated Mate’s attitudes, interests, desires, and tastes.

Your goal is to become part of his atmosphere: a source of comfort and ease.

Only then will he drop his guard when you are near.

Only then will he have significant conversations within your earshot.

Only then will he leave his possessions in a porous and unattended state.

Only then can you begin to gather information systematically.

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“Come. Let’s go back,” uttered brusquely, suggests that your Designated Mate has no more wish to talk about himself than you do.

• Algemene waarheden• ‘Gold spike-heeled sandals may compromise your ability to run

or jump, but they look good on tanned feet.’ • ‘Knowing your latitude and longitude is not the same as

knowing where you are’ • ‘Human beings are fiercely, primordially resilient’

• Instructies

• Verhalende elementen

• Beschrijvingen“White clouds spin and curl.A blue sky is as depthless as the sea.The sound of waves against rocks existed millennia before there were creatures who could hear it.Spurs and gashes of stone narrate a violence that the earth itself has long forgotten.”

• Persoonlijke herinneringen

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Nights in the South of France are a strange, dark, piercing blue.

A bright moon can astonish, no matter how many times you have seen it.

If you were a child who loved the moon, looking at the moon will forever remind you of childhood.

Fatherless girls may invest the moon with a certain paternal promise.

Everyone has a father.

A vague story like “Your father died before you were born” may satisfy a curious child for an unlikely number of years.

The truth of your paternity, discovered in adulthood, will make the lie seem retroactively ludicrous.

Publicists occasionally have flings with their movie-star clients.

Discovering that you are a movie star’s daughter is not necessarily a comfort.

It is especially not a comfort when the star in question has seven other children from three different marriages.


Your Field Instructions, stored in a chip beneath your hairline, will serve as both a mission log and a guide for others undertaking this work.

Pressing your left thumb (if right-handed) against your left middle fingertip begins recording.

For clearest results, mentally speak the thought, as if talking to yourself.

Always filter your observations and experience through the lens of their didactic value.

Your training is ongoing; you must learn from each step you take.

When your mission is complete, you may view the results of the download before adding your Field Instructions to your mission file.

Where stray or personal thoughts have intruded, you may delete them.


David Mitchell, “The Right Sort”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/the-right-sort-david-mitchells-twitter-short-story


“Valium breaks down the world into bite-sized sentences. Like this one. All lined up. Munch-munch.”

“I understand. That was my Soul. My soul. It’s gone. Valium. Bad Valium. Bad Valium. Bad –”

“You can’t see Slade Alley till you’re smack bang in front of it. Dark. Dunno. It’s like Slade Alley shouldn’t even be there.”

David Mitchell, “Black Box”


The black door’s not shiny, not dull. No handle, no keyhole, no gaps round the edges. Like it’s made of night. Like the wall’s grown it.

The door sort of summons my palm. The smooth metal’s not warm, not cool. The door swings inwards. Its hinges shriek like brakes…

…and it opens onto a garden, a buzzing, summery, magazine garden, just as the sun comes out and turns up all the colours. […]

Lady Briggs’s house is old grey stone. Square, windows, a posh front door with steps. Half smothered by that fiery red ivy.

Valium brightens colours a bit. Reds are bloodier, blues go glassy, yellows sort of sing and greens pull you under like quicksand.


Darkness in the form of a mastiff, but as big as a horse, cantering, now bounding, and it’ll be on me in moments

and I’d scream if I could but I can’t my chest’s too full of panic I can’t blast out it’s choking me it’s choking me because it’s not Jonah

Christ it did Christ there’s Jonah’s head flipping side to side Christ from its fangs dangling by a flap of skin Christ closer closer closer

one howl two wails three snarls it’s surging wolves it’s winter killing it’s scenting meat it’s joy at pain it’s a cat toying with a bird…[…]

this Hunger this Hunger this dog the Dog closes its teeth into me through me through bones cartilage nerves skin dick liver lungs

up the steps stumble up up the steps what if the door’s locked then it’s got me I daren’t turn round daren’t look back the doorknob turns

Please turn it’s stuck it’s scratched gold it’s stiff it’s ridged does it turn twist pull or what push pull turn twist my hollow shriek


“as I watch, the running-boy shape gets fuzzier and becomes a growling darkness with darker eyes, eyes that know me, and fangs that’ll finish what they started and it’s pounding after me in sickening slow motion, big as a cantering horse and I’d scream if I could but I can’t my chest’s full of molten panic it’s choking me it’s winter it’s bones it’s cartilage skin liver lungs it’s hunger it’s Hunger it’s Hunger and Run! I run towards the steps of Slade House”. (Slade House 24)


• “Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and dark.”

• "diabolical treble-strapped textual straitjacket".

• "narrative tweets have to be at least two things: one, a balanced entity with its own (may I say haiku-like?) rightness, and two, a 'propellent' or maybe a kind of plate-spinner of character development, or mood, or plot, or idea, or a combination”.

(https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/david-mitchell-publishes-short-story-twitter)

Interview met David Mitchell


Op 19 februari 2018 om 20 uur zal Jennifer Egan de 6de Servottelezing verzorgen in 30CC Schouwburg. Toeganggratis. Meer informatie op https://www.kuleuven.be/mecenaat/fondsen/letteren/servotte

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