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
• The 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 

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