Talk:Contemporary literature

Added decade table
Thought it would be helpful to users to have a decade table similiar to the table presented on the contemporary arts page. I added some schools to it, but it will need more work. Feel free to add to it; I will also return to work on it. Dantedanti (talk) 15:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

2000 onwards?
Surely contemporary lit should not include work from 1999 and earlier, which falls under the category of 20th century literature? A book published in 1951 is now 70 years old and unless unusually prescient probably doesn't reflect contempory concerns.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.85.206.224 (talk) 04:44, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

"History of modern literature" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect History of modern literature and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 8 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. asilvering (talk) 22:25, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Break it up
This is not a great article to begin with, I think it is time to stop calling literature written before 2000 "contemporary" when it is nearly a quarter of a century since 1999. It just makes the word meaningless. So the history of 20th century literary movements belongs on the 20th century literature page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.11.229.4 (talk) 06:09, 7 March 2022 (UTC)