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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Guides in Literary Studies
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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.
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)
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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.
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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- Germanistik Online DatenbankThe leading international journal on the study of German Language and Literature, including peripheral fields, Germanistik has more than fifty years of German philology critically reviewed and available online. From 1979 onward, Germanistik also provides keywords
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismThe Guide is an alphabetically arranged survey of literary criticism and theory, with entries for individuals, critical topics, movements, theories, and contributions of specific countries and periods. Includes bibliographies and indexes to related entries at the end of each entry. International in scope, with emphasis on Western critical theory
- LiMoST -- Datenbank für literarischer Motive, Stoffe und ThemenDatabase of secondary literature on literary motifs, covering the period between around 1830/40 and the present. Draws upon already existing printed bibliographies (see sources)
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- SOPHIE: A Digital Library and Resource Center for Early German-Speaking Women's Works 1740-1923Sponsored by Women in German and funded by the Brigham Young University, SOPHIE provides access to primary texts by 18th and 19th century German-language women authors. The collection contains several sections, such as Biographies, Colonial literature, Drama, English translations, Film, Journalism, Music, Poetry, Reference works, and Travel literature