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Patchwork Girl
Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents
Publisher's blurb:
What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?
What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?
And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?
This is their story.
(Source: Eastgate website)
A retelling of the Frankenstein story where a female monster is completed by Mary Shelley herself.
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Electronic Literature Directory entry:
Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents
Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:59
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Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia
Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:54
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Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl
Landow, who praises Patchwork Girl as "the finest hypertext fiction thus far to have appeared," appreciates Jackson's mastery of hypertextual collage, which reveals, he suggests, how analogous techniques are at play when we conceptualize our gendered identities. (Source: Eric Dean Rasmussen)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 16:11
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Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis
Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:44
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False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters
A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57
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Frequently Asked Questions about "Hypertext"
Frequently Asked Questions about "Hypertext" is a short fiction, in the form of a FAQ document, that revolves around various interpretations of a 69-word poem called "Hypertext." The poem "Hypertext," nominally by "Alan Richardson," is composed from all the hidden words/anagrams contained within the nine-letter word "hypertext." The tongue-in-cheek interpretations of the fictional poem include the perspectives of language poetry, cultural studies, feminism, and transgender studies. Emerging through the interpretations and FAQ answers, however, are the interwoven "real-life" stories of the troubled author and his/her troubled critics. The poem's notoriety creates a fan fiction phenomenon centered around an online database, which, along with its creator(s), comes under attack. As in Nabokov's Pale Fire, pseudo-literary criticism gives way to a mystery story about the real author of the text, transformation and transsexuality, love and murder.
(Source: Author description, ELC 1).
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 09.05.2011 - 12:53
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Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext
Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.07.2011 - 16:37
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Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls
When I began writing Mythologies in 1995 I was thinking about gender in language and, informed by a poststructuralist feminist critique of the representation of the female body as landscape, I set out to explode these stereotypes by using over-the-top geological metaphors. I wanted to convey a moment of realization, when a number of ideas come together at once. It mattered little to me what order the ideas came in, only that they came together in the end. The narrative structure of this non-linear HTML version was influenced by the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The interface was based on the placemats you get at many restaurants in Nova Scotia, which depict a map of Nova Scotia surrounded by icons of purported interest to tourists: lobsters, whales, lighthouses, beaches and the Bluenose. The found images and texts came from a geology course I took in university, a civil engineering manual from the 1920s and a random assortment of textbooks found in used bookstores. The deadpan technical descriptions of dikes, groins and mattress work add perverse sexual overtones to the otherwise quite chaste first-person narrative.
J. R. Carpenter - 28.01.2012 - 23:17
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Bare Bones
Fairy tales have been hijacked throughout history for various uses. Emigrating from one distribution method to another, they have been duplicated, mistranslated, and subverted. It could be that Cinderella is the world's most-told tale. There are thousands of versions, each one colored by the details of local culture, the needs of its audience and the desires of its teller. Buried among the world's heap of Cinder tales, is the Russian version, in its multiple incarnations. Bare Bones is a retelling of this story about a girl and her encounter with the fearsome hag, Baba Yaga.
We identify with this tale through our own experiences of loss, humiliation and enslavement. By reshaping its text, imagery and format, I try to build a bridge for the fairy tale audience between traditional media and digital media. Bare Bones is just one piece of The Vas(i)lisa Project which is more visually and texually complex.
(Source: 2002 State of the Arts gallery)
Scott Rettberg - 14.01.2013 - 00:24
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Beautopia
"In this hypertext, I interrogate the language, imagery, and ideologies of cosmetics advertisements and related texts. Hypertext as a form lends itself to unorthodox juxtapositions, particularly through linkages based on associative logic (e.g., metaphors, puns). I invoke the feminist understanding that "The Personal Is Political," combining autobiographical reflections with an analysis of the discourse and industry of cosmetics. The personal dimension includes elements from my unconscious (following in the Surrealist tradition of automatic writing).
Scott Rettberg - 14.01.2013 - 00:48
