Range of Influences on Mary/Shelley & Herself

Notable Literature

• The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Frank L. Baum.
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Mary Shelley.
• Mary Shelley's Journal.
• Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad.
• "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." Shakespeare's Love Sonnet #130
• Pinocchio
• Lives of the Artists. Giorgio Vasari. Rome. 1546.
• Greek mythology
  Other Possible Literary Influences

• Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka.
• Bible
• Merlin prophecies.
• The Underworld City. Jules Verne.
• Moby Dick. Herman Melville.
  Hypertext/Technology

• Getting Started with Storyspace. Bolter, Joyce, Smith, and Bernstein.
• The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Jean-Francois Lyotard.
  Feminism, Gender & Queer Studies

• Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. Carolyn Walker Bynum.
• "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays. Helen Cixous.
• "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Donna J. Haraway.
• Female Strategies. Evelyn Shaw and Joan Darling.
• "Piecing and Writing." Poetics of Gender. Elaine Showalter.
• Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Barbara Maria Stafford.
• "The Chimera Herself." Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part One. Ginevra Bompiani.
• Male Fantasies Vol. I: Women Floods Bodies History. Klaus Theweleit.
• The Passion of New Eve. Angela Carter.
• Susan B. Anthony. 1873 speech.
  Philosophy

• A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
• Disseminations. Jacques Derrida.
• De Rerum Natura. Lucretius.
• Cicero.
  Social/Pop Culture

• Elle Magazine. Author and issue unknown.
• Nameless text. "Leafed through in a bookstore."
• a little ditty from Victorian times of a woman who lost her leg and received another "She was gold, all gold, from her little toe/To her organ of Veneration!" and of her greedy husband who murdered her "not only for, but with" the leg "And they brought it in as a Felo de Se/'Because her own Leg had killed her!"
• A picture book called Dr. Goat.
• Song: shin bone connected to the thigh bone, thigh bone connected to the hip bone. Mahasatipatthana Sutta The Great Frames of Reference. Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• one step forward two steps back
• hopscotch, hokey-pokey, double dutch, bass-ackwards
• Nursery Rhyme: Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross/To see a fine lady upon a white horse./Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,/She shall have music wherever she goes.
• A front-page Enquirer story
• Drinks: Ovaltine and Kool-Aid
  People

• George P. Landow. Brown University. Hypertext.
• Daniel Russell. Stanford University. Computer science.
• Robert Coover. Brown University. Creative writing.
  Herself

• "Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl." 4 November 1997. http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/index_jackson.html
• Her other on-line texts and children's books. (See bibliography.)
  Science

• Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton. 1621.
• Newtonian mechanics. (i.e. delta y over delta x)
• Tourette's Syndrome.
  Film

• Red, Eric. Body Parts 1991.

Range of Outside Influences Before and After PG

Literature
• Cerese. "Patchwork Girl." Fantasy Poem. 4/27/00. http://www.unknownpoets.com/db/poem...
• McFarland, Kim. "The Patchwork Girl." West Sector Story #6. http://www.c4vct.com/kym/slachash/fic/wss6.htm

• Niven, Larry. The Patchwork Girl. Futura, 1980.
  People

• Paul West, Rosemary Waldrop, Gale Nelson, and fellow students Tim Taylor and Euridice Kamviselli.
  Film

• Hickox, Anthony. Waxwork II: Lost in Time. 1992.
• Scott, Riddley. Blade Runner. 1982.
• The Patchwork Girl. Animated feature film based on L. Frank Baum's novel. http://www.picador.net. Lyrics by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.
  Music
  
• Johnny Too Bad/The Strikeouts (CD). Patchwork Girl. Moon Ska Records, 1997.
  Social Influences

• Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Mark Rose.
• Explosion of hypertext into society.

Beyond Pathwork Girl: What Others Say Influenced Text

• Bachelard, Barthes, and Bataille.
• Bolter and Grusin. Remediation.
• Delillo, Don. Underworld.
• Dunn, Katherine. Geek Love.
• Foucalt, Michel. What is An Author?
• Guyer, Carolyn. Quibbling.
• Joyce, Michael. Afternoon.
• Lacan and Nabokov.
• Snow, Michael. Cover to Cover.
• Sterne, Laurence.

???Can you place any of these???

• A patchwork quilt made by a lady in Minnesota
• Madame Q. Spiritualiste
• Aunt Oratia
• The past was like a smell
• Cut and paste past
• Even now I admire my bladed faith
• Elsie Hull--a B & W curtsey
• Chancy and armadillo--Louis L'Amour?