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German Language Humanities : Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Guides

A guide to research materials in the areas of Germanic languages and literature

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Guides in Literary Studies

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Dictionaries

Goethe-Wörterbuch. See also: Wörterbuchnetz

Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch / von Matthias Lexer.
Location: Reference Stacks, 2 South: PF4327 L4 (non-circulating)
Available online via Hathitrust: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006948711

Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Georg Friedrich Benecke
Location: Reference Stacks, 2 South: PF3625 B4 (non-circulating)
Available online via Hathitrust: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002239845

Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Provides definitions of some of the most frequently encountered literary terms, including from languages and literature other than English
Location: Reference Stacks, 2 South
Call number: PN41 C67 2008
Non-Circulating
Online: https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9913006851602121

The Oxford Duden German Dictionary
Location: Memorial Library Reference Desk (Room 262)
Call number: PF3640 O94 2009
Non-Circulating

Wörterbuchnetz
A project of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, this portal provides access to a corpus of 25 historically significant dictionaries in Germanic Languages, with more to follow.


 
Encyclopedias

Ästhetische Grundbegriffe (7 volumes)
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: BH39 A83 2000
Non-Circulating

Encyclopedia of German Literature (2 vols.)
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT41 E53 2000
Non-Circulating

Encyclopedia of German Literature (online)
Or search Credo Reference

Fakten und Fiktionen : Werklexikon deutschsprachiger Schlüsselliteratur, 1900-2010
Call number: PT747 R75 F35 2011

Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon  (20 volumes)
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN44 K54 1988
Non-Circulating

Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
Provides bio-bibliographical information on hundreds of writers of German literature after 1945. Each entry provides a short biography; a list of prizes won; a bibliography of the author's works, including translations, as well as works for theater, film, radio, multimedia projects; interviews; and a list of secondary resources.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT155 K757 1978
Non-Circulating

Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Biographisch-bibliographisches Handwörterbuch nach Autoren und anonymen Werken. Deutsche Autoren, A-Z (4th ed., 2004)
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT155 W48 2004
Non-Circulating

Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen: (1730-1900)
Location:  Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT167 L48 2006 (contains CD-ROM)
Non-Circulating

Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftstellerinnen im Exil, 1933-1945
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT405 W236 2004
Non-Circulating

Der Literatur Brockhaus (8 volumes, 1995)
Location: Memorial Library Reference Non-current (Basement North)
Call number: PN44.5 L55 1995
Non-Circulating

Literaturlexikon Online
An evolving electronic resource on the works of German-language authors.
For a list of authors and works, see: http://literaturlexikon.uni-saarland.de/index.php?id=37

Neues Handbuch der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1945
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT401 N48 1990
Non-Circulating

Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft (3 volumes)
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT41 R42 1997
Non-Circulating

Wörterbuchnetz
A project of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, this portal provides access to a corpus of 25 historically significant dictionaries in Germanic Languages, with more to follow.

Zedlers Universal-Lexicon
Johann Heinrich Zedler's Universal-Lexicon is the largest German encyclopedia of the 18th century. Published between 1732 and 1754, it contains approximately 68,000 pages in 68 volumes and covers all disciplines.


 Handbooks and Guides

Print Guides

A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT401 F76 1997
Non-Circulating

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur / Gottfried Willems
Call number: PT85 W555 2012

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Call number: PT85 G46 1984 (3 vols.)

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (1949- )
Call number: PT85 B64 1949

Handbuch Nachkriegskultur. Literatur, Sachbuch und Film In Deutschland (1945-1962)
Licensed eBook

Kürschners deutscher Literatur-Kalender. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1937-present.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: Z2230 K92
Non-Circulating
[Earlier editions, up to 2009, in Reference Non-current (Basement North); some issues available via HathiTrust]

Literaturkritik heute: Tendenzen, Traditionen, Vermittlung
Call number: PT411 .L58 2015

Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie. Ansätze - Personen - Grundbegriffe (5th ed., 2013)
Call number: PN74 M48 2013

A New History of German Literature
Available at both Memorial and College Libraries
Call number: PT91 N49 2004

The Oxford Companion to German Literature
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT41 G3 1997
Non-Circulating
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