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The following page contains links to information on course novelists, 20th-century U.S. history, modernism, postmodernism, hypertext, and reading and writing about literature.

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Course Novelists

Auster Ellison
  • African American Odyssey
    Library of Congress exhibit of objects that document African American history and struggles for equality in nine historical periods, including "The Booker T. Washington Era," WWI and its aftermath, and "The Depression, the New Deal, and WWII." The site provides information on the contexts that inform Ellison's novel and the leaders he references.
  • The American Conversation on Race
    From Dr. Lucia Knowles at Assumption College, the site contains excerpts from primary texts concerning questions of race (authored the 1850s to the 1930s). Authors include Frederick Douglass, W.E.B DuBois, and Booker T. Washington. The site also has links to online resources for further research, resources on political and social issues of the era, and primary texts—literature, art, and music
  • "Black Boys and Native Sons"
    Irving Howe's 1963 critique of Invisible Man. The first two thirds of the excerpt discusses James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Howe tackles Ellison in the last part of his essay.
  • Harlem Riots
    Student PowerPoint presentation on causes and effects of the Harlem Riots.
  • Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
    Web site for Burns's documentary includes essays on jazz in New York City (in "Places, Spaces, and Changing Faces"); a "Jazz Lounge" with a "Music 101" section on improvisation, rhythm, and melody; biographies of musicians, including Louis Armstrong; and a discussion of jazz in multiple eras.
  • Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
    Ferris State University site that explains Jim Crow laws, examines prevalent stereotypes of African American men and women, and provides images of memorabilia related to those stereotypes.
  • Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
    Site for PBS American Experience documentary on Garvey includes timeline of his life, information on leaders contemporary to Garvey, and excerpts from his speeches.
  • Marcus Garvey: The Official Site
    Includes excerpts from Garvey's speeches, FBI reports on Garvey, a discussion of the Liberia project, and other materials.
  • Marcus Garvey and UNIA Paper Project
    UCLA research project on Garvey and UNIA contains sample documents from Garvey's published paper collections, a photo gallery, sound library, and other resources.
  • The Red Hot Jazz Archive Focused on pre-1930s jazz, the Red Hot Archive contains biographical information and essays about bands and musicians, and extensive audio files of jazz music, including the music of Louis Armstrong.
  • Ralph Ellison Practices
    Part of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project, this short page on Ellison's Writers' Project interviews is part of a larger site on the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the WPA.
  • Resources on Invisible Man
    A chapter summary of the novel and a small collection of reviews and critical article.
  • Sparknotes: Invisible Man
    Summary and analysis of each chapter, character analyses, and a discussion of the novel's themes, motifs and symbols.

Fitzgerald

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Page
    Short biography and chronology of Fitzgerald, a bibliography of his works, a collection of critical articles, sound and video files of Fitzgerald, and other resources.
  • The Great Gatsby Online
    Electronic version of the novel. Note that the text has line breaks not included in the Scribner print version, and it does not replicate the print version's space breaks that indicate temporal or narrative shifts.
  • When F. Scott Fitzgerald Was Born
    Library of Congress site with historical timeline of the Progressive Era.
Jackson

20th-Century U.S. History
  • World Wide Web Virtual Library: U.S. History
    The materials on this page are organized by chronological period as well as historical topic.  The Virtual Library links to reference resources, including databases, e-texts, journals and archive    .


Modernism
  • Modernism
    Documents and other artifacts to accompany a University of Pennyslvania course on modern and contemporary poetry. Collection includes images, poems, story excerpts and reviews of modernist works. Professor Al Filreis's course schedule also contains links to various reactions "against" modernism.
  • Modernist Fiction Web
    Professor Richard Pearce's introduction to Moderism for students at Wheaton College

Postmodernism
  • Approaches to Po-Mo
    An introduction to ways of thinking about postmodernism.
  • Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Thought
    Links to resources on selected writers, including Lyotard, Foucault, Baudrillard, Haraway, and Jameson.
  • Doom Patrols
    UW English and Comparative Literature professor Steven Shaviro's "theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture."
  • Globalization and the Postmodern Turn
    Douglas Kellner's attempt to develop a critical theory of globalization. Kellner theorizes globalization in terms of both the modern and the postmodern "because we are currently involved in an interregnum period between an aging modern and an emerging postmodern era."
  • Postmodernism Described
    Professor Mary Klages's orginal lecture notes on postmodernism and an addition to these notes.
  • Postmodern Fiction Timeline
    From book site for Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology; offers overview of historical and political and cultural events and works of art (books, films, etc.) and critical texts produced from 1945 to 1998.
  • Postmodernism and the Postmodern Novel
    From the Electronic Labyrinth, a short discussion of postmodernism offered in an overall project that places the development of hypertext within non-linear print fiction and discusses hypertext novels.
  • Postmodern Virtualities
    Mark Poster's analysis of how electronic technologies support the emergence of a postmodern subject.
  • Understanding Media
    The first seven chapters from Part I of media theorist Marshall McLuhan's seminal text Understanding Media.
  • Voice of the Shuttle Postmodernism Page
    Extensive page of links to resources on postmodernism; contains general resources on postmodern theory and information on individual theorists.


Hypertext

  • Eastgate Systems
    Publisher of Jackson's Patchwork Girl and distributor of Storyspace, the program Jackson used to create her hypertext. Site also offers a free 30-day trial of Storyspace.
  • FILMTEXT 2.0
    By Mark Amerika; "investigate[s] the interrelationship between net art, hypermedia narrative and interactive cinema.”
  • Hegirascope
    Stuart Moulthrop's time-based fiction.
  • GRAMMATRON
    Mark Amerika's cybertext depicts "a near-future world where stories are no longer conceived for book production but are instead created for a more immersive networked-narrative environment that, taking place on the Net, calls into question how a narrative is composed, published and distributed in the age of digital dissemination.”
  • Hypertext: Read What You Write and Write What You Read
    Project authored by Stephen Dinan, a student in a hyperrhetoric class at the University of Texas. Dinan distinguishes hyperfiction from hypertext and discusses the demands of reading hyperfiction.
  • Hypertext Gardens
    Mark Bernstein's discussion of "the navigation problem" in hypertext. Bernstein argues for moving away from rigid navigation to navigation based on landscape design and architecture.
  • Lexia to Perplexia
    Talan Memmott's exploration of the imbrication between human subjectivity and computer technologies.
  • On Reading and Hypertext
    Excerpts from John Barth, Michael Joyce, Sven Birkets, and Richard Lanham’s writing on hypertext and the practice of reading.
  • Safara in the Beginning
    Chrisy Sheffield Sanford's web novel of Safara, an African princess taken as a slave from Senegal to Martinique in the seventeenth century; discussed by George Landow in "Reconfiguring Narrative" (in course packet).
  • Twelve Blue
    Michael Joyce's web-based hypertext "story in eight bars."

Reading and Writing About Literature

  • Guidelines to MLA Citation Style
    From the Purdue OWL, guidelines for correct MLA citation; includes examples.
  • Plagiarism Discussed
    A Purdue OWL handout on what can constitute plagiarism, with information on when and when not to cite sources.
  • Plot Summary vs. Interpretive Writing
    From the Writing Center at George Mason University comes a PowerPoint presentation that distinguishes plot summary, a bad strategy for writing about literature, from interpretive writing, the goal of writing about literature.
  • Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based Web Resources
    Authored by UCLA librarian Esther Grassian, this page offers criteria for evaluating discipline-based world wide web sites.  Writers can use Grassian's list to help them decide whether a particular web source is appropiate for an academic research paper or presentation.
  • Writing About Literature: Some Dos and Don'ts
    Guidelines for writing about literature, from the George Mason University Writing Center.
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