Library News for German Studies

Early English Books Online, 1473-1700

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Provides English translations of a number of continental European works of this time. Also includes works in other languages published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America.

You can search directly in the Library Catalog for these works or in the EEBO database.

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Save files on library server by 1/8/2007

Save your files! When you log on to library computers with your WU ID, you have some storage space on the Library server for your files. If you have saved files to the Library server, please remove these files, by saving on a USB drive, CD, or emailing them to yourself, before January 8. All files left on the server will be deleted then.

http://library.wustl.edu/whatsnew/#servs

New Print--Dec. 1-15, 2006 (partial listing)

The antifascist classroom : denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Benita Blessing. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Frames of evil : the Holocaust as horror in American film / Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart and David A. Frank ; with a foreword by Dominick LaCapra and an introduction by Edward J. Ingebretsen. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.

German memory contests : the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990 / edited by Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, and Georg Grote. Rochester, NY : Camden House, c2006.

German studies in India : aktuelle Beiträge aus der indischen Germanistik/Germanistik in Indien / [Herausgeber, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Aussenstelle New Delhi ; Redaktion, Dorothea Jecht, Shaswati Mazumdar]. München : Iudicium, 2006.

A history of Austrian literature 1918-2000 / edited by Katrin Kohl and Ritchie Robertson. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006

Im Keller : der Untergrund des literarischen Aufbruchs um 1950 / Evelyne Polt-Heinzl, Daniela Strigl (Hg.). Wien : Sonderzahl, c2006.

Literatur und Migration / herasgegeben von Heinz Ludwig Arnold. München : Edition Text + Kritik, [2006].

Das Nibelungenlied = Song of the Nibelungs / translated from the Middle High German by Burton Raffel ; foreword by Michael Dirda ; introduction by Edward R. Haymes. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Practicing modernity : female creativity in the Weimar Republic / edited by Christiane Schönfeld ; in collaboration with Carmel Finnan. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2006.

Prophet und Prinzessin - Peter Hille und Else Lasker-Schüler : mit Berichten aus der Werkstatt der Peter-Hille-Forschungsstelle / Walter Gödden, Michael Kienecker ; in Verbindung mit Hartmut Steinecke und Günter Tiggesbäumker (Hg.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2006.

The translation of children's literature : a reader / edited by Gillian Lathey. Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2006.

Victims and perpetrators, 1933-1945 : (re)presenting the past in post-unification culture / edited by Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2006

Wanderungen mit der Wünschelrute : landesbeschreibende Literatur und die vorgestellte Geographie Deutschlands und Dänemarks im 19. Jahrhundert / Wolfgang Behschnitt. Würzburg : Ergon, c2006.

Weimar in exile : the antifascist emigration in Europe and America / Jean-Michel Palmier ; translated by David Fernbach. London ; New York : Verso, 2006.

Zwischen Wort und Wort : Interpretation und Textanalyse / Hans Lösener. München : Wilhelm Fink, c2006.

Library exhibit on Nobel Prize Winners

Exhibition: Nobel Prize Winners ~ Past and Present

A new exhibition in the lobby cases at Olin Library highlights the 2006 Nobel Laureates in all categories and Nobelists affiliated with Washington University.  Notable features of the exhibition include details of the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Orhan Pamuk's, visit to Washington University on November 27th and the Nobel quiz.  Be sure to stop by and test your knowledge!  Exhibition runs from November 21st to December 18th, 2006.

More information on the Nobel Prizes: http://nobelprize.org/ -- Includes list of winners, information on Alfred Nobel and links to webcasts of the ceremony and celebrations on Dec. 10th.

A new exhibition in the lobby cases at Olin Library highlights the 2006 Nobel Laureates in all categories and Nobelists affiliated with Washington University.  Notable features of the exhibition include details of the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Orhan Pamuk's, visit to Washington University on November 27th and the Nobel quiz.  Be sure to stop by and test your knowledge!  Exhibition runs from November 21st to December 18th, 2006.

More information on the Nobel Prizes: http://nobelprize.org/ -- Includes list of winners, information on Alfred Nobel and links to webcasts of the ceremony and celebrations on Dec. 10th.

New German Critique--Increased Access!

We now have access to current issues of New German Critique (0094-033X) through Duke University Press. Issues available electronically include: v. 1 (1973) to the present.

We are also still maintaining a print subscription.

Blunt Appoints Members to Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission

Gov. Matt Blunt appointed five members to the Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission. Among the members included is Richard M. Kalfus, chair of the Humanities Department at St. Louis Community College. Kalfus received a doctorate in German language and literature from Washington University.

Entire article: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/19337/