English 329W:
Contemporary Literature
Fall 2005
Centenary College
of Louisiana
Jefferson Hendricks
Webliography for the Study of Contemporary Literature
(with an emphasis on American literature)
General Sites for American Literature
Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
-- Cary Nelson, U. of Illinois (a superb online companion to Nelson's Oxford anthology)
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
-- Al Filreis, U. of Pennsylvania
T
he Beat Begins: America in the 1950s
-- Michael Hall, U. of Maryland
Essays by Marjorie Perloff
-- one of the best critics of modern and contemporary American poetry
Literary Kicks
-- Levi Asher (a very fine Beat site)
"American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition"
-- Kathryn VanSpanckeren,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation"
--
Kathryn VanSpanckeren,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Electronic Poetry Center
-- SUNY, Buffalo
electronic book review
Postmodern Culture
(text-only version)
Hyperrizons -- a hypertext fiction page
-- Michael Shumate, Duke U.
The Electronic Labyrinth
-- Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar
The Write Stuff
(interviews with contemporary writers)
links to post-1945 American Literature
--
Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaski U.
General Sites for Modern and Contemporary Literature (with an emphasis on American literature)
General Sites for Fiction
(with an emphasis on American literature)
General Sites for Poetry
(with an emphasis on American literature)
Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
-- Cary Nelson, U. of Illinois (a superb online companion to Nelson's Oxford anthology)
Academy of American Poets
-- info on many contemporary American poets
Essays by Marjorie Perloff
-- one of the best critics of modern and contemporary American poetry
General Sites for Literary Criticism and Theory