Reviews and analyses have appeared in great numbers. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl patchwork girl, a hypertext vision sewn together by shelley jackson, is a story and an account of. Flickering connectivities in shelley jacksons patchwork girl. It is often discussed along with michael joyce s afternoon, a story as an important work of hypertext fiction. The importance of mediaspecific analysis 2000pmc 10. Shelley jackson writes on snow for a new type of story. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl was created in storyspace, is distributed by eastgate systems. Request pdf flickering connectivities in shelley jacksons patchwork girl. As demonstrated in katherine hayles thorough analysis of shelley jacksons multiple subversions of her. Patchwork girl is a work of electronic literature by american author shelley jackson.
Shelley jackson born 1963 is an american writer and artist known for her crossgenre experiments, including her hyperfiction, patchwork girl 1995. It was written in storyspace and published by eastgate systems in 1995. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl postmodern culture. Flickering connectivities in shelley jacksons patchwork. Yet this time the cons are utilized in the texts meaning. 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. Pdf shelley jacksons grotesque corpus notes on my body. 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 selfdescribed student in the art of digression, jackson holds an ab in studio art from stanford university and an mfa in creative writing from brown university. No, i am the monster herself, and it is shelley jackson who is. In the late nineties, jackson alternated hypertext work with writing short stories. Shelley jackson is an american writer and artist known for her crossgenre experiments, including her hyperfiction, patchwork girl 1995. Part 1 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. View essay shelley jackson from wmst 3440h at trent university.