In chapter 11 of the Glutenberg Elegies Birkerts reveals to us his take on hypertext. He opens up with his first encounter with hypertext and goes on further to explain how he felt about this new medium. Birkerts’s first encounter with hypertext was similar to my first encounter with Patchwork Girl. Just like Birkerts I [...]
Shelly Jackson’s Patchwork Girl is a remediation of Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein. Through the medium of hypertext Jackson modernizes the story of Frankenstein crafting it into a version she can call her own. Patchwork Girl is very different from the text most people are accustom to, and at first can leave the reader in utter [...]
