Genetically Modified Literature
What's here
- Graphic Narrative
- Alice and Jane
- Catherine and Gwen-Too Much Ego for One Story
- Mrs. Dalloway The Lost Excerpt
- Richard Brown Meets Clarissa Brown
- The Hours as GML
- The Woman Inside
- The Simpsons +The Yellow Wallpaper "Creeping, Weeping, and Wallpaper"
- Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours- Kyle Skovira
- "Falling" into The Hours
- Letters From Alice to Dinah
- The Significance of Windows in Woolf's Works
- Dalloway lyrics
- Drowning in Mrs. Dalloway
- Peppermint Snowflakes
- Alice's Dream-Full of Wonder or Not?
- Persona Poems
- John Donne and Sonnet 14
- The Depths of a Dream
- The "Perfect" Girl
- “Alice’s Encounter with the Miser”
- A Christmas Carol Greed Rap
- The Mad Hatter Project
- Alice’s Adventures in Reality
- A Divine Christmas Comedy
- Image and Text
- My Last Duchess
Genetically Modified Literature is part of the Collaborative Writing Project.
Genetically Modified Literature is a space where students and faculty can re-code the classics. Part of the Collaborative Writing Project, GML is partly inspired by the online game IVANHOE developed at the University of Virginia.
The re-coding possibilities in this space are limited only by the imaginations of users. Here are some suggestions:
Re-program
- Add a page with some text from a literary work in the public domain available from The Gutenberg Project.
- Save the page to create a record of the original text.
- Make changes to the text. Other users will be able to compare versions of the text by looking at the page history.
- Using Add Comment, explain your changes and how they would affect later developments in the text.
Cross-breed
- Frankenstein meets the Mummy. Jane Eyre meets Mrs. Dalloway. Elizabeth Bennet meets zombies. Mash-up texts or create hybrid characters.
Grow appendages
- Create characters, situations, descriptions, etc. that are not in an original text such as David Copperfield or The Great Gatsby. Explain how adding these to the text would change it.
- Or: write letters by one or more characters to other characters in the same novel or (see "cross-breed," above) by a character in one novel to a character in another.
