The map represents consequently a way to bypass the system of links designed. Before going any further, a general description of. Pdf shelley jacksons grotesque corpus notes on my body. Perhaps the true paradigmatic work of the era, shelley jacksons elegantly designed, beautifully composed patchwork girl offers the patient reader, if there are any left in the world, just such an experience of losing oneself to a text, for as one plunges deeper and deeper into ones own personal exploration of the relations here of creator.
Shelley jackson biography yborn in 1963 in the philippines. When papa says its time to run to freedom, she has something precious to bring along the patchwork quilt her mama helped her sew before she died. Part 1 of shelley jacksons traversal of her hypertext poem, patchwork girl, for the pathfinders project, led by dene grigar and stuart moulthrop. Smith, which allows users to create hypertext environments of fiction and nonfiction. Hypertext in art by this i declare that i wrote this master thesis by myself, only with a help of the referenced literature and internet resources, under the supervision of my thesis advisor.
Shelley jackson biography yborn in 1963 in the philippines yraised in berkeley, ca yher family ran a bookstore, which had a great influence on her. It picks up the monstrous bodymonstrous text idea from mary shelley s frankenstein and really explores monstrosity in all its various forms. A hypertext fiction by shelley jackson, written in 1995, which revolves around the connections between monstrosity, subjectivity and repetition. The thesis explores how shelley jackson s hypertext work patchwork girl 1995 provides a feminist alternative to dominant frankensteinian mythologies of unethical creation, arguing that it succeeds in doing so by offering alternative approaches to. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl is not simply a new recreation of mary shelleys.
May 29, 2014 part 3 of shelley jackson s traversal of her hypertext poem, patchwork girl, for the pathfinders project, led by dene grigar and stuart moulthrop and sponsored by the national endowment for the. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Shelley jackson s patchwork girl and the persistence of print in the age of hypertext paul hackman bio in the early 1990s a number of academics began to note the potentially drastic changes new media might have on the place of print literature in college classrooms and society at large. Certainly one way that patchwork girl is monstrous has to do with technology big surprise thereit takes hours just to figure out how to read the novel. More recent examples of electronic literature dealing with issues germane to gender representation. And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with mary shelley, and travelled to america. As a consequence, the relationship between reader and text also becomes. In shelley jacksons patchwork girl, for instance, the map of the top level shows the main sections of the text.
As such, both works open up the patriarchal culture from within, showing how it. The project gutenberg etext of the patchwork girl of oz. For discussion of how contextual changes can resonate through large sections of a work, see robert kendall, parsing the cold. Encouraged to patch up the scattered chunks of text, the. Landow, professor of english and art history, brown university patchwork girl, shelley jackson s brilliant hypertext parable of writing and identity generates both its themes and techniques from the kind of collagewriting intrinsic to hypertext. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl, a prominent work of hyptertext literature from 1995, takes a feminist perspective by telling the story of the female monster whom frankenstein discards in shelleys 1818 novel. Michael joyces afternoon, a story, shelley jacksons patchwork girl and stuart moulthops victory garden are far more frequently cited than any other works of electronic literature cf. The reader viewer has to understand the medium in order to get an overall picture of the work and be able to interpret and enjoy it. Part 1 of shelley jackson s traversal of her hypertext poem, patchwork girl, for the pathfinders project, led by dene grigar and stuart moulthrop and sponsored by the national endowment for the. In hypertext, she says, everything is there at once and equally weighted. Sunlight streamed through the windows of the hive illuminating the movie posters pinned carefully to the wall.
In patchwork girl, however, shelley jackson reawakens the female monster by. Her patchwork family by lyn cote, 2009, steeple hill edition, in english. Wikis and the creative writing process ubc library open. The chapter on fragmentation explores how, in both judy malloys its name was penelope 1993 and shelley jacksons patchwork girl 1995, hypertext is exploited to create a web of interlinked text that the reader can access in multiple ways p. Broken by war, judge tyron hawkins is devastated when his little girl runs from him to felicity. Yet the more i investigated the period, the more works i discovered that i had not previously heard of. But felicitys courage despite the towns scorn for her orphanage and her caring way with his daughter restore his lost faith.
Media aesthetics a graduate seminar at uvic spring 2020. Jan 12, 2020 patchwork countable and uncountable, plural patchworks a work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole. It was written in storyspace and published by eastgate systems in 1995. On the oz kids, she was voiced by lori alan and had numerous infant patchwork kids. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. Parts of a female body are stitched together through text and image. I was just thinking back to our discussion of narrative and database in the novel, and specifically in reference to the possibility of novels which privilege or favor database over narrative, and nabokovs pale fire came to mind. Patchwork girl is great hypertext and a great novel.
Thundertoad animations comparatively primitive cgi version from 2005 featured cyndi. Frank baums patchwork girl of oz and a female text, mary shelleys frankenstein. They strive to be a better person and try to reach your full potential, while helping others along the way. Shelley jackson s brilliantly realized hypertext patchwork girl is an electronic fiction that manages to be at once highly original and intensely parasitic on its print predecessors. An example of a networked hypertext is shelley jacksons patchwork girl. It picks up the monstrous bodymonstrous text idea from mary shelleys frankenstein and really explores monstrosity in all its various forms. Mapping shelley jacksons patchwork girl the bookstore.
Gathering the limbs of the text in shelley jacksons patchwork girl. Patchwork chapter 1 spoopysis hiveswap archive of our own. Gathering the limbs of the text in shelley jacksons. She fell in love with books and she knew she wanted to become a writer.
Perhaps the true paradigmatic work of the era, shelley jackson s elegantly designed, beautifully composed patchwork girl offers the patient reader, if there are any left in the world, just such an experience of losing oneself to a text, for as one plunges deeper and deeper into ones own personal exploration of the relations here of creator. May 29, 2014 part 1 of shelley jackson s traversal of her hypertext poem, patchwork girl, for the pathfinders project, led by dene grigar and stuart moulthrop and sponsored by the national endowment for the. Amazon price new from used from cdrom please retry. It seems like one could take the poem as a database and the commentary maybe as a set of. The patchwork girl of oz to elle magazine to eastgates manual. The patchwork path by bettye stroud, 2005, candlewick press edition, in english 1st ed.
Shelley jackson was born in the philippines, raised in berkeley, california, and currently lives in brooklyn, new york, with her husband, her daughter, and a threelegged dog. The actions of the avatar, which is the identity of its operator in sl, conform to the traditions of varjrayana buddhism. Girls take other peoples emotions into consideration and are strong, smart, and independent. Shelley jackson is an american writer and artist known for her crossgenre experiments, including her hyperfiction, patchwork girl 1995. Patchwork girl by shelley jackson introduction patchwork girl 1995 is a hypertext novel written with storyspace authoring software. In jacksons patchwork girl, for instance, we not only get the monster telling her own story and speaking for her mother, mary shelley, but the text is colonized by remixed passages from literary theorists like jacques derrida and by jumbled sections of its two main mother intertexts, frankensteinand l. The goal of the piece is to not only make the reader realize the structure of the patchwork girl as a. I use refigures instead of rewrites because jackson, like danielewski, combines pictures and words. Jackson, a published book illustrator as well as author. Girl power is showing what you are really made of and being a great friend to everyone around you. Its run by committee, a loose aggregate of entities we cant really call human, but which. I also recommend introduction to pathfinders and shelley jacksons patchwork girl in dene grigar and stuart moulthrops pathfinders. Present united states privacy law despite being made up of a patchwork federal and state constitutional, statutory, and common law is predominantly based on the ideals of individual control, autonomy, and liberty from governmental intrusion, despite the fact that its inspiration was an idea grounded on the importance of protecting human dignity and an. Shelley jacksons hypertext novel patchwork girl is a continuation of the work of mary.
The project gutenberg etext of the patchwork girl of oz, by. On the body the original body is dissociated, porous and unbiased the mind, on the other hand has an obsession with stasis, centrality, and unity. Landow, professor of english and art history, brown university patchwork girl, shelley jacksons brilliant hypertext parable of writing and identity generates both its themes and techniques from the kind of collagewriting intrinsic to hypertext. False pretenses, parasites, and monsters electronic book. Patterns of hypertext proceedings of the ninth acm. Part 3 of shelley jacksons traversal of her hypertext poem, patchwork girl, for the pathfinders project, led by dene grigar and stuart moulthrop and sponsored by the national endowment for the. Both the exposed veins of the vein man and the dotted lines traversing patchwork girls body hint at the interworkings and viscera that are usually hidden underneath the bodys skin, and jacksons accompanying essay. Documenting the experience of early digital literature 2015 as well as gregory zinmans handmade cinema 2020. Mclaughlins notes toward absolute zero, in sigweb newsletter vol. Gathering the limbs of the text in shelley jackson. Patchwork girl is a work of electronic literature by american author shelley jackson. Shelley jacksons hypertext consists of five main sections.
Shelley jacksons hypertext, patchwork girl, begins with a series of, not so much headings, but hyperlinks. Shelley jacksons grotesque corpus notes on my body. This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. The monsters symbolic value has been read in terms of gender, class, race. No, i am the monster herself, and it is shelley jackson who is imaginary, or so it would appear, since she always vanishes when i turn up. A wiki is one example of social software that can assist and augment the creative writing process in a number of ways. In the late nineties, jackson alternated hypertext work with writing short stories. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl and the persistence of print in the age of hypertext paul hackman bio in the early 1990s a number of academics began to note the potentially drastic changes new media might have on the place of print literature in college classrooms and society at large. Storyspace is proprietary software, created by authors jay david bolter, michael joyce, and john b.
Shelley jackson s hypertext consists of five main sections. Aug 14, 2014 mapping shelley jacksons patchwork girl posted on august 14, 2014 by rachel fox shelley jacksons hypertext, patchwork girl, begins with a series of, not so much headings, but hyperlinks. They strive to be a better person and try to reach. Jackson challenges the notion of the body as a closed system with this image, as she tacitly suggests that at least in her text the navigational system is the patchworked body itself. Shelley, the idea of doing this interview arose from a kind of cluster of texts were publishing in ebr built around soren pold and christian ulrik andersens the metainterface, a work that calls for a reconsideration of interface studies, essentially shifting its focus from the ways that interfaces shape the interaction between humans and software, or on questions of interface usability. Both texts offer a multilayered reading experience for adolescents juxtaposing print and digital technologies, themes of boundary and displacement, and issues of identity and sexuality. She is seen in the background at princess ozmas coronation. It is often discussed along with michael joyces afternoon, a story as an important work of hypertext fiction. I expect there are some of you who still think i am shelley jackson, author of a hypertext about an imaginary monster, the patchwork girl mary shelley made after her firstborn ran amok. The body is a patchwork, though the stitches might not show. Photo about patchwork colorful quilt, isolated on white. The future of narrative in cyberspace the free press, 1997, p.
In some occasions i had to choose which path to follow in the story. Alternia was always so dim that her eyes werent used to the light anymore. Michael joyce, storyspace as a hypertext system for writers and readers of varying ability, in hypertext91. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. See more ideas about adrienne shelly, keri russell and waitress 2007. Shelley jackson patchwork girl or, a modern monster 1995. She also appeared in walter murchs return to oz as an unbilled extra. Shelley jackson s brilliantly realized hypertext patchwork girl is an electronic fiction that manages to be at once highly. Shelley jacksons brilliantly realized hypertext patchwork girl is an electronic fiction that manages to be at once highly original and intensely parasitic on its print predecessors.
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