Germanic Studies Guide - Reference Material

Dictionaries, Handbooks and Encyclopedias

Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable / revised by Adrian Room. 15th ed.
London: Cassell, 1995.
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Contemporary German fiction writers. Second series / edited by Wolfgang D. Elfe and James Hardin.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, c 1988.
Fisher Ref. 833.9103 1A
Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century / Leonard S.Klein. Rev. ed.
New York: Continuum, 1993-1994.
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German fiction writers, 1885-1913 / edited by James Hardin.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1987.
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German fiction writers, 1914-1945 / edited by James Hardin.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1987.
Fisher Ref. 833.03 1
Kindlers neues Literatur Lexikon / herausgegeben von Walter Jens.
München: Kindler, Vol. 1-22 c1988-c1998.
Fisher Ref. 803 10A
Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature.
Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1995.
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Twentieth-century German dramatists, 1919-1992 edited by Wolfgang D.Elfe and James Hardin.
Detroit: Gale Research, c1992.
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Wer ist wer?
Lübeck. Schimdt Römhild. 32(1993/1994) -
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Directories, Bibliographical and Biographical Sources

Bibliographie der deutschen Literaturgeschichten: mit Kommentar, Rezensionsangaben und Standortnachweisen / Waltraud Fritsch-Rössler.
Frankfurt am Main c1994-
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. V. Klostermann.
Frankfurt am Main: 1(1945/1953)-
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Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft 1945-72 / herausgegeben von Clemens Kottelwesch. Vittorio Klostermann.
Frankfurt am Main 1979.
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Bibliography of literary criticism. Magill's bibliography of literary criticism: selected sources for the study of more than 2,500 outstanding works of Western literature / edited by Frank N. Magill.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1979.
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Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon: biograpahisch-bibliographisches Handbuch / begründet von Wilhelm Kosch:
Bern: Francke. 1968 -
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Deutsche Literaturgeschichte: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. / Wolfgang Beutin.
Stutgart: Metzler, 1994
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Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon/begr. von Wolfgang Stammler,
Berlin; de Gruyter, 1977-
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Die Science-fiction der DDR: Autoren und Werke: ein Lexikon. / herausgegben von Erik Simon und Olaf Spittel.
Berlin: Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1988.
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Germanistik: Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen.
Tübingen, M. Niemeyer. 1(1960) -
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Goethe Wörterbuch. / herausgegeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaft der DDR.
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1(1978)-
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Internationale Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart / von Günter Albrecht und Günther Dahlke.
Berlin: Volk und Wissen 1(1969) - 4(1989)
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Joseph Roth-Bibliographie / bearbeitet von Rainer-Joachim Siegel Morsum/Sylt: Cicero Presse, 1995.
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Literaturlexikon: Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache / herausgegeben von Walther Killy.
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1(1988) -15(1993).
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Neue deutsche Biographie.
Berlin: Duncker & Humblot: 1(1952) -
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Neues Handbuch der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1945 / begründet von Hermann Kunisch; herausgegeben von Dietz-Rüdiger Moser.
München: Nymphenburger, c1990.
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Quellenlexikon der Interpretationen und Textanalysen : Personal- und Einzelwerkbibliographie zur deutschen Literatur von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart: / Heiner Schmidt.
Duisburg: Verlag für Pädagogische Dokumentation, 1985-1987.
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Women writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland: an annotated bio-bibliographical guide / edited by Elke Frederiksen.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.
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Indexes and Abstracts

British humanities index.
London: The Library Association. 1962-
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Combined retrospective index to book reviews in humanities journals, 1802-1974 / editor, Stanley Schindler.
Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1982-1984.
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Essay and general literature index.
New York, H.W.Wilson Co. 1900 -
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Index to book reviews in the Humanities
Williamston, Mich. 1963-1990.
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Linguistic and language behavior abstracts (LLBA)
[La Jolla; Calif]. 1967-
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LLBA is also available in electronic format.
MLA international bibliography of books and articles on modern languages and literatures.
N.Y.: Modern Language Association, 1922-
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MLA is also available electronically.
Readers' guide to periodical literature.
Minneapolis, Minn. : H.W. Wilson, 1901-
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Theses and Dissertations

Australian Digital Theses Program ADT
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text - UMI ProQuest
This database represents the scholarship of mainly US universities. 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added each year, with an increasing number from outside the US. Full-text available for theses submitted from 1997.
Dissertationen Dissertationen Information about German dissertations; includes some full text theses.
Index to theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland
London, Aslib.
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UNION list of higher degree theses in Australian university libraries. Cumulative edition to 1965.
Hobart: University of Tasmania Library, 1967. Supps. 1966 -
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Writing Guides and Style Mannuals

The Chicago manual of style
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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A guide to MLA documentation: with an appendix on APA style / Joseph F. Trimmer.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
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MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Joseph Gilbaldi. 5th ed.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
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