''Contemporary Literature'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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which publishes interviews with notable and developing authors, scholarly essays, and reviews of recent books critiquing the
contemporary literature
Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II in the English-speaking world. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance.
History
Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer dis ...
field. Genre coverage includes
poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, and new media (including digital literature and the graphic narrative). The
editor-in-chief
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is
Thomas Schaub (
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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). It was established in 1960 as the ''Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature'', obtaining its current title in 1968.
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