Literature
Momentum's guide to the world of literature, including banned books, hypertextual experiments, and alternative publishing (Atomic Books' "Literary finds for mutated minds.")
Banned Books On-line offers a concise overview of censored texts, from "Ulysses" and "Leaves of Grass" to "Fanny Hill" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" to "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "Huckleberry Finn." This is a good starting point to investigate banned books, with links to other sources of information.
There's more to serious hypertext than just linking from location to location on the Web. Hypertexts are electronic publications which feature nonsequential writings -- text chunks connected by links that offer the reader a variety of different pathways and branches for navigating the work. The distinction between reader and writer is blurred as the choices made by the reader in a sense compose the text. Each "reading" becomes unique and original. There's a whole world of hypertext publications and authors and, naturally, they've found a home on the Web. Eastgate Systems is in the forefront of hypertextual publishing; their Web site offers samples of hypertext fictions, features the Stroryspace authoring program, and provides links to other hypertext experiments.
Literary Places is a listing of good places on the Web and on Usenet to get information about books. Links here take you to Bookport, Publishers Weekly, Books, Libraries and more.
"Literary Finds for Mutated Minds" is an online catalog of strange and subversive literature from the Baltimore-based Atomic Books. The catalog covers such areas as alternative fiction, conspiracies, crime, cult films and video, fringe culture, lowbrow art, trash and pop culture, underground and zines.
Author, Author! is a literary gateway to other sites devoted to a wide-range of authors, from Jane Austen and Samuel R. Delany to Milan Kundera and Mark Twain. Here you can download the works of Herman Melville ("Moby Dick") and Shelley, or access a Web devoted to the critical study of Thomas Pynchon. There's also links to pages dedicated to literature and to on-line libraries.
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