English literature and English studies

• English Studies on the Internet, a very useful collection from Tübingen, maintained by Thomas Rommel.
• EESE - the online periodical for English Studies from Erfurt University, maintained by Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann. Checking the index is the safest way to finding what you want.
• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English, a growing website maintained by hypertext doyen Professor George P. Landow at Brown University. An ambitious project with a huge net of pages; useful bibliographies and further links. Based on seminars held at Brown.
• The Boston Book Review - keep watching for excellent reviews!
• Mail and Guardian Book Review - lots of reviews!
• A very thoroughly researched page on Salman Rushdie. As soon as we have a page about Rushdie, the link will be moved there, but it is so useful that we don't want you to miss it!

Literary Theory and Criticism

• Literary and Critical Theory, another cluster of pages from Brown University. A cornucopia of articles on theorists and subjects of theory.
• Modern Fiction Studies, a "scholarly journal of modern and contemporary narrative, theory and culture".
• Physicist Alan Sokal shocked the postmodernist world by submitting a purportedly scholarly article titled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" to the journal Social Text, only to reveal later on that it was a hoax designed to show up the intellectual hollowness and vanity of postmodernist theory. Sokal has collected his own articles on the subject as well as several comments from the controversy following his denouement . A must-read for those who are doubtful about the whole business of postmodern theory.

Prizes and Awards

• The Whitbread Prize.
• The Booker Prize. Also visit an alternative page by Bradley Shoop with search options.
• The Literary Research Award lists a collection of particularly noteworthy webpages about literary topics. Until our pages are mentioned as well, feel free to browse and admire the others!
• Salon Magazine adds a comment on Granta's 1993 choice of 20 Best Young British Novelists.

Related organizations

• The British Council help to organize most of our events. Visit their literature page! They also have some rather strange pictures of writers in store...

Beyond the ivory tower

• Notes and Queries - for those who can't wait until Friday!
• SHIFTCONTROL - The Guardian's Internet magazine. Clever. Hilarious.
• The Times - you will have to register here, but it's free. Almost as much information as in a real newspaper; almost a really bad example of web-publishing.
• Salon- an interactive magazine of books, arts and ideas. Their aim is to provide a meeting of enlightened minds on the web. The site itself is worth visiting for its sheer beauty. Time Magazine Best Web Site of 1996.
• Visit the homepage of Erlangen!