remix my lit

mash-up, exegesis & remix squared

RML has received our first literary mash-up. Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up by Angela Meyer is a derivative work from Philip Neilsen’s Beowulf in Brisbane, Stefan Laszczuk’s The New Cage, Cate Kennedy’s Renovator’s Heaven, Lee Battersby’s Alchymical Romance, and “the author’s inevitably influenced, intertextual imagination…”

We think it’s rather special and should inspire you. If you haven’t checked out Angela’s blog LiteraryMinded, do yourself a favour… the author Antony Loewenstein calls her, “a highly engaged woman with a love of unconventional thoughts on books and new media”. Miss LiteraryMinded has blogged the recent Melbourne Writers Festival in her usual astute and highly entertaining style.

RML has also had our first exegesis written! The author Amelia Schmidt is taking a course on Hypertext theory at the University of Sydney and has written an exegesis about remixing Danielle Wood’s story How to Domesticate a Pirate. The exegesis is very insightful and we love this bit:

“Considering Remix my Lit as a narrative in itself as a whole website may not be the reader’s immediate reaction, as one is drawn in by the narratives of each individual story and remix. However, it is through this broader narrative of the website - its narrative which begins with the reader and ends with the reader, transformed Cinderella-like, in to a writer and finally, as the clock strikes midnight, in to a reader again.”

Best of all, Amelia has published her exegesis on the RML website under a (CC) BY-NC-SA licence so that you are free to remix her text (see our ABC POOL Post). Thanks Amelia!

And check out our first remix of a remix. Joel McCaffery has remixed Dreamless [Amigo Westbrook Remix] with his Dreamless [via Amigo Westbrook remix]. Nice work.