Patchwork Girl

Creative Work

Author: 
Shelley Jackson
Year: 
1995
Publisher: 
Eastgate Systems, Inc.
Language: 
English
Publication Type: 
Published on disc, CD, or DVD
WorldCat: 
2001 ed.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/634944558
1995 ed.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262298375
Exhibited at: 
Electronic Literature Exhibit at the 2012 MLA Convention
2001 Electronic Literature Awards
Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Media Arts Show: Visionary Landscapes
Interactions: Shelley Jackson
Record Status: 
Revisions required
Tags: 
hypertextadaptationpostmodern fictiongenderbodyremixmonsterpasticheStoryspace
Description (in English): 

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.

See also: 
Electronic Literature Directory entry
See also: 
NT2 entry (français)

Critical writing that references this work:

Title Author Year
"I Am a Double Agent": Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Persistence of Print in the Age of Hypertext Paul Hackman 2011
"Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson Rita Raley 2002
Avatars of Story Marie-Laure Ryan 2006
Body Webs: Re/constructing Boundaries in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl Alexandra Glavanakova-Yaneva 2003
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions Astrid Ensslin 2007
Conclusion: Whither American Fiction? Jessica Pressman 2012
Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond Raine Koskimaa 2000
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections Luciana Gattass 2011
Digital Media Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg 2010
E-literature Joseph Tabbi 2011
Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Terry Harpold 2008
Exploiting Kairos in Electronic Literature: A Rhetorical Analysis Cheri Crenshaw 2008
False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters Tom LeClair 2000
Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World Jill Walker Rettberg 2003
Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis N. Katherine Hayles 2000
Forms of Future Michael Joyce 1997
From Revisi(tati)on to Retro-Intentionalization Astrid Ensslin 2010
Gammel vin in nye skinnsekker Scott Rettberg 2010
Hypertext and the Female Imaginary Jaishree K. Odin 2010
Hypertext Fiction from 1987-1999 Jill Walker Rettberg 2010
Hypertext Fiction in the Twilight Zone Raine Koskimaa 1998
Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology George P. Landow 1992
Machinic minds and posthuman bodies: the complexities of intimacy in three electronic works by Shelley Jackson Arnaud Regnauld 2010
Memory at work in Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story, Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, and Mark Amerika's Grammatron Arnaud Regnauld 2011
Narration, Intrigue, and Reader Positioning in Electronic Narratives Daniel Punday 2012
Old Wine in New Bottles Scott Rettberg 2010
Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Importance of Possible Worlds Theory for Hypertext Fiction (and Beyond) Alice Bell 2011
Quantum Feminist Mnemotechnics: The Archival Text, Digital Narrative and The Limits of Memory Carolyn Guertin 2003
Reading Practices in Electronic Literature: A Dialogic Approach Cheri Crenshaw 2008
Remediating English Pedagogy: Nurturing immersive, complex and creative literary experiences for students in contemporary times Angela A. Thomas 2012
Reproductive Technologies, Fetal Icons, and Genetic Freaks: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and the Limits and Possibilities of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Heather Latimer 2011
Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance Rita Raley 2001
Stitch Bitch Shelley Jackson 1998
Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl George P. Landow 1996
Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental Laura Shackelford 2006
Subjective Boundaries: Shelley Jackson's Hypertexts and the Terrain of the Skin Cara Ogburn 2008
The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print John M. Vincler 2010
The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print: Material Strategies for Innovative Fiction in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Steve Tomasula’s Vas John M. Vincler 2010
The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction Alice Bell 2010
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing Mark McGurl 2009
Understanding Knowledge Work Alan Liu 2005
Who's in Charge Here? A Response to Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl Jeanne Larson 1997
Works, Works? Works! Laura Borràs Castanyer 2011

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource Author Teaching Resource Type Year
Digital Literature (Engl 391, Fall 2008) Jessica Pressman Syllabus, Lesson plan 2008
Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2011) Davin Heckman Syllabus 2011
Hypertext Scott Rettberg Syllabus 2004

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Screen shots: 
Patchwork Girl images
Attachments: 
A video of Shelley Jackson reading PG -- in realmedia from the 2002 State of the Arts CD-ROM
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