Stitching Texts: Gender And Geography in Frankenstein and Patchwork Girl  

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Dobson, Teresa ; Rebecca, Luce-Kapler

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 2 (2005), page 265-277.
Fulltext: Vol. 12, No. 2, August 2005, pp. 265–277.pdf (194.81KB)

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This paper considers how two related texts—one in print and one in hypertext—are locations for adolescents to undertake the work of ‘literary anthropology’ in considering questions of gender and subjectivity. The first text is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which invites readers to grapple with questions of how adolescents negotiate relations with their parents and others, of how masculinity and femininity are produced and construed, and of how cultural mores inform both processes. The second is Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl, a hypertext novel that parodies the former. Both texts offer a multilayered reading experience for adolescents juxtaposing print and digital technologies, themes of boundary and displacement, and issues of identity and sexuality.

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