Subject Guide: German Language and
Literature
INDEXES | REFERENCE WORKS | WEB LINKS | PERIODICALS
This page is intended to introduce a few select resources,
both on the Weband in the Smith Library Center print
collection, that are particularlyuseful for the study
of German language, literature, and culture.
INDEXES
NOTE: Students researching in languages
other than English should allow enough
time (usually about 10 working days)
for interlibrary
loan of any foreign language articles
from journals to which the library
does not subscribe.
Multiple Languages, including German
Most of the online indexes listed below
are predominantly English-language,
but they all include some materials
in German.
Academic Search Complete
ATLA
Religion Database with ATLASerials
International Index to
the Performing Arts (IIPA)
JSTOR
MLA
International Bibliography
The Philosopher's
Index
Project MUSE
Women's
Studies International
WorldCat
Literary Sources
For information on authors who write
in other languages, try the sources
below, and look at the library's guides
to Literary Criticism, Author Biography,
Book Reviews, or Literature (use the navigation
buttons on the left of this page).
Literature
Resource Center
Biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information
in English onauthors and their works, including authors
of fiction, non-fiction,poetry, drama, history, and
journalism. Access to many of Gale's literarysources,
including; Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of LiteraryBiography,
and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Literatures Other
Than English: German
Sites concerned with literature written in German.
REFERENCE WORKS
To find printed reference material
relevant to your topic start with the library's Voyager
catalog. Do a Reference Materials
search using keywords to describe your
topic.
Below are a few titles to get you
started. To double-check call numberand
location information, search the Voyager catalog.
Autorenlexikon deutschsprachiger
Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts
REFERENCE, 1st floor 830.9 Au82
Collins German-English, English-German
dictionary, 4th ed.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 433.21 C693 2003
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Various volumes focus on German literature, such as v. 124, Twentieth-Century German Dramatists.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 928.1 D561
Deutsches Worterbuch : mit einem "Lexikon
der Deutschen Sprachlehre"
REFERENCE, 1st floor 433 W129d
Encyclopedia of German Literature.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 830.9 En19
German English Dictionary of Idioms.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 433.1 T217g
Oxford Companion to German Literature.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 830.3 G183o
Oxford-Duden German dictionary : German-English, English-German.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 433.21 Ox2 2005
WEB LINKS
German
GermanicResources
Links to sites for German media, literature and language, country/citytours, and more. From University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DeutschsprachigeSuchmachinen
Search engines and directories dedicated
to one or more German speakingcountries.
WESSWeb: German
Studies Web
Varied resources for German Studies. Links to newspapers,
primary resources, journals, book reviews,online
text collections, etc. Maintained by the Western
EuropeanSpecialists Section of the Association of
College and ResearchLibraries.
Yahoo! Deutschland
Yahoo! for Germany; in German.
Multiple Languages, including German
Linguist
List--Web Resource Listings--Dictionaries=
Multi-language dictionaries, with links to other
language-related sites. Site maintained by Eastern
Michigan University and Wayne State University.
Ethnologue
World language research, maps, and
more. Catalogs over6,700 languages
spoken in 228 countries.
iLoveLanguages
Language-learning resources arranged
by topic.
PERIODICALS
To find holdings and location information
for specific periodicaltitles (both
print and online), search the Voyager catalog.
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals onyour
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes. |
