Modernism on the Web

 

 

 

 

General Literature and Culture Resources

 

The English Server    http://eserver.org/

The Voice of the Shuttle   http://vos.ucsb.edu/

The Online Literary Criticism collection   http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ - indexed by period, author, etc.

The Virginia etexts centre    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html - downloadable texts (out of copyright books mainly). 

Project Bartleby   www.bartleby.com   Again, a huge range of etexts including those of many modernist works.

The On-Line Books Page at U Penn http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The Library of Congress American Memory site   http://memory.loc.gov/  - a vast archive on material on the USA, including much literary and cultural material.

The British library’s excellent guide to academic web resources, with many links http://www.britishlibrary.net/academic_resources.html

            The Literature page is http://www.britishlibrary.net/literature.html

 

More Specific Sites

 

Modernist Studies Association    http://msa.press.jhu.edu/  and the linked journal Modernism-Modernity   http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/

 

The Little Magazine Project at Brown University   http://www.modjourn.org 
It now offers Blast, Dana, The New Age, Rhythm, TheTyro.

 

An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to The Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson, is at:  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm - a terrific resource; lots of critical excerpts, picture, and the texts of many poems.

 

Armory Show (1913) site.  Excellent illustrated site on the Show, the marketing of modern art, gender, primitivism.  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/armoryshow.html

 

Inside the Whale Inside: A Hypertextual Journey Into the Belly of Modernism (Robert Scholes, Brown University) – rather dated in format, but an interesting essay. http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/scholes/wwwhale/Enter_Here_365.html

 

Links Pages

 

Jack Lynch’s listing of literary resources relating to C20 authors http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html

 

A list of web resources on art history and modernism from Boston College:     http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/HP/20th_mod.html - includes links to material on Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, etc.

 

Modernism links from MIT http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/twentieth.html

 

Texts

What is available on the web is somewhat limited, because determined by copyright legislation.  However a number of modernist authors still in UK and US copyright can still be read via the Project Gutenberg Australian website, which works under (threatened) Australian legislation allowing anything 50 years in the public domain to be published:   http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html

 

Some texts are available in hypertext format, eg. The Waste Land at http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html

 

(see also  http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ )

 

Other

 

The full text of Benjamin’s ‘Artwork’ essay (this tends to move about in fact: try Google) http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/gallery/web/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html

 

A Modernism timeline     http://www.liquidsquid.com/modernism/timeline.html

 

Modernism discussion group: suscribe via http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/Lists/20th/modernism.html

 

Author pages

Almost all the major modernist authors have pages devoted to then, some more substantial than others:  Eliot, Joyce, Yeats, Pound, Lewis, Woolf,  Moore, Williams, Loy, Bryher, etc. They can easily be located by a search on Google, Yahoo, AltaVista etc.    Some links to author pages can be found via Mavicanet   http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/13899.html

 

If you have any problems finding the pages described above, type in the subject as described (‘The New Age’; ‘Modern American Poetry Anthology’  etc.) and you should find it.