Required Texts and Materials
Larson, Deena: Samplers: nine vicious little hypertexts. Eastgate Systems, Inc.
** Must purchase DVD hypertext from Columbia College Bookstore ($24.95) or online used by date needed for course readings (check syllabus).
Jackson, Shelley: The Patchwork Girl. Eastgate Systems, Inc.
** Must purchase DVD hypertext from Columbia College Bookstore ($24.95) or online used by date needed for course readings (check syllabus).
Winterson, Jeanette. The Powerbook. Vintage: London, 2001.
** Can get in most used bookstores or online - (very inexpensive) / I did not order copies for bookstore to buy, since this book is easy to get online. Please be sure to have purchased by date needed for course readings.
* All other assigned readings will either be handed out or accessed through the class website.
Complimentary & Recommended Reading / Websites:
Below are several links that you will find useful throughout the semester, as complimentary readings and or visuals to your assigned readings and essays. These readings are not required, but may be helpful to you in understanding the overall context of many of your required readings and/or assignments. I will continue to add to this list throughout the semester, so keep checking back. Please of any missing or broken links.
Resources for readers of Jeanette Winterson:
Jeanette Winterson's Home website: since we'll be reading more of her work this semester, you might want to browse around her website, which is loaded with all kinds of interesting places, visuals, and even a discussion board.
Resources for readers of Shelley Jackson:
Texts about Shelley Jackson:
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Coover, Robert. “Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age.” Coover’s eulogy for the first wave. He describes Jackson’s text as “the true paradigmatic work of the era.”
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Hayles, N. Katherine. “Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis.” Postmodern Culture 10.2 (2000). Influential critical study of Patchwork Girl.
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Joyce, Elizabeth. “Sutured Fragments: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl in Piecework.” Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature. Eds. Jan Van Looy and Jan Baetens. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003. 39–52.
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Joyce, Michael. “Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction.” Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 131–49. Joyce’s lyrical appreciation of hypertextual rereading. Patchwork Girl figures prominently among his examples.
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Punday, Daniel. “Involvement, Interruption, and Inevitability: Melancholy as an Aesthetic Principle in Game Narratives.” SubStance 33.3 (2004): 80–107.
Texts & projects by Shelley Jackson:
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"the doll games," Shelley & Pamela Jackson / irradicablestain.com project
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“Ineradicable Stain,” – Jackson’s WWW site. Essential reading and listening: selections from her print fiction and nonfiction, audio recordings of spoken word performances, interviews and links to WWW-based texts and installations.
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The Melancholy of Anatomy. (excerpt) New York: Anchor Books, 2002. A collection of short stories by Jackson.
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“my body - a Wünderkammer &” – a WWW-based autobiographical fiction by Jackson, similar in many respects to portions of Patchwork Girl.
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"Musée Mécanique," CONJUNCTIONS : A Web Exclusive / "After long study, and with the help of a good fairy, Pinocchio succeeded at last in becoming a puppet, like his maker Geppetto."
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“Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl,” – a conference presentation given by Jackson at MIT in 1998, an important and often-cited theoretical statement re. hypertext narrative and authorial practice.
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Interviews of Shelley Jackson:
- Amerika, Mark. "Stitch Bitch: The Hypertext Author As Cyborg-Femme Narrator," Amerika On-Line 7. March 15, 1998.
- Grant, Gavin J. "Shelley Jackson: Anatomist Extraordinaire" - (Booksense)
- Jackson, Shelley, et al. "Women and Technology, Beyond the Binary," Riding the Meridian.
- Jackson, Shelley (Illustrator). Old Woman and the Wave. DK Publishing, Inc. New York, April 1998.
- Lynch, Megan. "A conversation with Shelley Jackson" May 2002.
- Raley, Rita. "Of Dolls & Monsters": An Interview with Sheely Jackson. The Iowa Review Web. Winter 2002.
Basic Research & Resource Websites:
Bedford St. Martin's Research and Documentation Online: Useful literary resource for finding other research materials when doing major papers. Contains databases, indexes, websites, and references books for literature.
MLA citations: How to cite sources within your paper!
MLA manuscript format: formatting, pagination, long quotes, etc. |
