Guides to German Literature
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The Literature of German Romanticism by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PT361 .L55 2004 ) and OnlinePublication Date: 2003This volume of sharply focused essays by an international team of scholars deals not only with the most significant literary, philosophical, and cultural aspects of German Romanticism -- one of the most influential, albeit highly controversial movements in the history of German literature -- but also with the history and status of scholarship on the literature of the period.
The Cambridge History of German Literature by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PT91 .C36 1997 )Publication Date: 1997This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, take a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also ask what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library.
The Oxford Companion to German Literature by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PT41 .G3 1997 )Publication Date: 1997This new edition of Mary and Henry Garland's classic Oxford Companion to German Literature substantially revises and extends its coverage, making an invaluable reference work available to a new generation of readers. Designed to be a reliable source of information on the whole sweep of literature from German-speaking countries from the eighth century onwards, the Companion now comes right up to the mid-1990s, including recent works such as Gunter Grass's controversial novel about the unification of East and West Germany, Ein weites Feld (1995).
Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990 by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PT111 .P56 2002 ) and OnlinePublication Date: 2002Although the importance of the interplay of literature and philosophy in Germany has often been examined within individual works or groups of works by particular authors, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue of German literature and philosophy as a whole. Philosophy and German Literature 1700–1990 offers six chapters by leading specialists on the dialogue between the work of German literary writers and philosophers through their works.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2004The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PT571 .R93 2012 )Publication Date: 2012-11-01German poetry has long held a special place within the Western literary tradition. Its major achievements include Luther's hymns, Goethe's unequaled poetic versatility, the Romantics' lyric songs and the challenging poetry of Hlderlin, Rilke and Celan. Combining readings of traditional poems with fresh examples, Judith Ryan conveys the rich rewards that come with reading German poetry.
Texts
- Projekt GutenbergCollection of German-language literary texts.
- Medieval ManuscriptsSeveral digitized collections of illuminated manuscripts from the UB Heidelberg.
- IntraText Deutsche LiteraturFull-text digital library of texts and corpora.
- TextGridExtensive collection of German texts in digital form, ranging from the beginning of the printing press up to the first decades of the 20th century.
Finding Articles
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BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of research material provided by the library. Resources covered by the search includes books and eBooks, journals, scores and sheet music, video and audio recordings, and other physical and electronic items held by the library. Coverage encompasses materials relating to the prehistoric and antique world through to the present.
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LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
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Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after Jan. 1, 2000.
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This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
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The Linguistics Collection is comprised of index and full-text databases covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The collection includes the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), which abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. And Linguistics Database, which includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics including many titles indexed in LLBA.
Literary Biography
- Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
- Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
- Biographie-PortalProvides access to more than 100,000 scholarly biographies of persons from all social backgrounds and nearly all periods of German, Austrian, and Swiss history.
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Metzler Autoren Lexikon : deutschsprachige Dichter und Schriftsteller vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PT155 .M48 2004 )Publication Date: 2004
Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2011Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 covers a wide swath of literary analysis and achievement, from Old High German lays and ecclesiastical encomia to Middle High German epics, sagas, and love lyrics.
Encyclopedia of German Literature by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PT91 .E53 2000 ); 2 volumesPublication Date: 2000"A substantial contribution to English encyclopedias of German literature, this authoritative two-volume set features in-depth treatment of the authors, works, topics, and influences of German literary studies."
Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PT167 .W65 1998 )Publication Date: 1998While research on texts by women writers in German-speaking countries has increased substantially, most of these authors remain virtually unknown to English-speaking scholars and students. The first work of its kind in English, this reference book contains alphabetically arranged entries for 54 Austrian, German, and Swiss women writers--such as Hrotsvit von Gandersheim, Louise Aston, Elfriede Jelinek, and Erica Pedretti--from the tenth century to the present day.
