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From the resources of the Wiener Library in London. Fully searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photos, propaganda materials such as school textbooks, Nazi calendars, anti-Semetic encyclopedias, materials on the Hitler Youth.
Great for primary resources on the Holocaust and Third Reich.
Enjoy!
For a complete listing of new videos and DVDs, consult the Catalog or the DVD list.
Our Hitler : a film from Germany [videorecording] / written and directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg ; produced by the BBC ... [et al.]. Original German title: Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland. [United States] : Facets Multimedia, 2007. DVD, all regions.
Die weisse Rose [videorecording] / Filmverlag der Autoren ; Drehbuch, Michael Verhoeven, Mario Krebs ; eine Produktion der Sentana Filmproduktion, Michael Verhoeven GmbH ; ein Film von Michael Verhoeven. [Berlin?] : ArtHaus ; Leipzig : Kinowelt Home Entertainment, [2006]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. DVD, Region 2.
The publishers of FOCUS Magazin are providing a FREE full-text archive of all articles from 1993 onwards. The most recent issues are excluded. The archive can be searched or browsed. See http://www.focus.de/magazin/archiv .
Remember, articles from FOCUS are also available via Lexis-Nexis. This also includes current ones. But you can only search NOT browse in Lexis-Nexis.
And we still subscribe to the print issue.
Abstraction and the Holocaust / Mark Godfrey. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.
Arthur Schnitzler reclaimed / edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Bank. New York : Granville Press, c2005.
Berlin in the twenties : art and culture, 1918-1933 / Rainer Metzger ; picture edited by Christian Brandstätter ; translated from the German by Clare Costa. Original German title:
Berlin die Zwanzigerjahre. London : Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Briefwechsel / Johann Heinrich Merck ; herausgegeben von Ulrike Leuschner ; in Verbindung mit Julia Bohnengel, Yvonne Hoffmann und Amelie Krebs. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2007.
The Burgtheater and Austrian identity : theatre and cultural politics in Vienna, 1918-38 / Robert Pyrah. London : Legenda, 2007.
The cinema of Werner Herzog : aesthetic ecstasy and truth / Brad Prager. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2007.
A companion to the works of Robert Musil / edited by Philip Payne, Graham Bartram, and Galin Tihanov. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2007.
Early modern German literature, 1350-1700 / edited by Max Reinhart. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2007.
Elfriede Jelinek : writing woman, nation, and identity : a critical anthology / edited by Matthias Piccolruaz Konzett and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2007.
Fiction sets you free : literature, liberty, and western culture / Russell A. Berman. Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, c2007.
Heinrich Heines "Buch der Lieder" : Differenzen und die Folgen / Karin Sousa. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2007.
Nature, technology and cultural change in twentieth-century German literature : the challenge of ecocriticism / Axel Goodbody. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
The nutcracker and the mouse king / E.T.A. Hoffmann. The tale of the nutcracker / Alexandre Dumas; translated by Joachim Neugroschel, introduction by Jack Zipes. New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
Peter Schlemihl / from the German of Adelbert von Chamisso ; translated by Sir John Bowring, LL.D. &c ; with plates by George Cruikshank. London : Robert Hardwicke, 192 Piccadilly, 1861.
Reading W. G. Sebald : adventure and disobedience / Deane Blackler. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2007.
Sites of the uncanny : Paul Celan, specularity and the visual arts / Eric Kligerman. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2007.
Third or additional language acquisition / Gessica De Angelis. Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2007.
Wilhelm Heinse : der andere Klassizismus / herausgegeben von Markus Bernauer und Norbert Miller im Auftrag der Klasse der Literatur der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2007.
My office hours for the Spring 2008 semester will be:
Wednesdays, 1-2pm in Ridgley 426
Thursdays, 11am-12:30pm in Ridgley 426
As always, if those times aren't convenient, we can schedule another time. Please contact me: bvetruba@wustl.edu
Note: I will not be holding any office hours this week (Jan. 7-11, 2008). I will also be out of the office from Jan. 10-15, 2007. During my absence, feel free to contact Olin Reference for immediate reference service: ref@wumail.wustl.edu ; IM: WULibraryAskUs; phone: 935-5410.
If you want to limit your catalog search to Internet resources, the best way to do this is to go to ADVANCE SEARCH, and then limit your search by LOCATION: INTERNET.
Here's an example: WORD: DUDEN and LOCATION: INTERNET.
If you have questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 935-4824)
The Libraries have subscribed to a service that provides full-color cover images and links to author notes, fiction and biography profiles, Publishers Weekly reviews, summaries and annotations, and tables of contents. Note: not all catalog records have these; it depends on their availability. Search the Catalog and take a look!
Here's an example of an image. Also, see: http://catalog.wustl.edu/record=b3063633
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Erin McGlothlin. Rochester, NY : Camden House, c2007.
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Over the next few weeks, many of the titles in Olin Reference are being transferred to the general stacks. Many of these titles will still be for LIBRARY USE ONLY. Whenever possible, we are adding comparable online reference titles.
If you need a print reference title, please consult the Catalog to check the location. If you are unable to find a title, please ask me (bvetruba@wustl.edu) or staff at the Olin Help Desk since titles may still be in transit.
Please let me know if you have concerns or questions or about this.
The Libraries now have online access to the following journals:
Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik (0449-5233) -- 05/2004 to present
Zeitschrift für Germanistik (0323-7982)--05/2006 to present
Challenging separate spheres : female Bildung in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany / Marjanne E. Goozé (ed.). Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2007.
Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / Mary Fleischer. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Die Frau der Zukunft vor 100 Jahren : 5 vergessene feministische Utopien aus den Jahren 1899-1910 / [mit Einleitung, 10 Originalillustrationen von Ernst Lübbert, Biographien, Bibliographie und Nachwort herausgegeben von Detlef Münch]. Dortmund : Synergen, 2007.
"Fremde Nähe" : das Dialogische als poetisches und poetologisches Prinzip bei Paul Celan / Gilda Encarnação. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2007.
Functional approaches to culture and translation : selected papers by José Lambert / edited by Dirk Delabastita, Lieven D'Hulst, Reine Meylaerts. Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2006.
Goethe : neue Ansichten, neue Einsichten / herausgegeben von Hans-Jörg Knobloch, Helmut Koopmann. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2007.
Heimat : neue Gedichte / Wolf Biermann. Hamburg : Hoffmann und Campe, 2006.
Herbert Rosendorfer : eine Bibliographie / Josef Blöchl. München : Privatdruck [im Selbstverlag des Autors], 2007.
Der Krieg der Zukunft vor 100 Jahren : Antikriegs- und Kriegsutopien von P. Berendt, Carl Grunert, Anton Oskar Klaussmann, Bertha von Suttner u.a. aus den Jahren 1900-1912 / [herausgegeben von Detlef Münch]. Dortmund : Synergen, 2006.
Kunst der Propaganda : der Film im Dritten Reich / herausgegeben von Manuel Köppen, Erhard Schütz. Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2007.
Learning and understanding in the Old Norse world : essays in honour of Margaret Clunies Ross / edited by Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop, and Tarrin Wills. Turnhout : Brepols, 2007.
Literarische Konstruktion (vor-)nationaler Identität seit dem Annolied : Analysen und Interpretationen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (11.-16. Jahrhundert) von Uta Goerlitz. Berlin ; New York, NY : Walter De Gruyter, c2007.
Literarische Wertung und Kanonbildung / herausgegeben von Nicholas Saul und Ricarda Schmidt. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2007.
Der Rangierbahnhof : Roman [1896] / Helene Böhlau (Frau al Raschid Bey) ; herausgegeben von Henriette Herwig & Jürgen Herwig ; mit einem Nachwort von Cornelia Mechler. Mellrichstadt : Turmhut-Verlag, 2004.
Reclams grosses Buch der deutschen Gedichte : vom Mittelalter bis ins 21. Jahrhundert / ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Heinrich Detering. Stuttgart : Reclam, 2007.
Schreiben ist das bessere Leben : Gespräche mit Schriftstellern : Elfriede Jelinek, Friederike Mayröcker, Gerhard Roth, Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, Paul Nizon, Nathalie Sarraute, E.M. Cioran, Jorge Semprun, Breyten Breytenbach, Hans Werner Henze / Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs. München : Kunstmann, c2006.
Searching for Sebald : photography after W.G. Sebald / edited by Lise Patt, with Christel Dillbohner. Los Angeles, Calif. : Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007.
The turns of translation studies : new paradigms or shifting viewpoints? / Mary Snell-Hornby. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2006.
Vergessene Bestie : der Werwolf in der deutschen Literatur / Christian Stiegler. Wien : Braumüller, c2007.
Von der Schönheit zerbrechender Ordnungen : Körper, Politik und Geschlecht in der Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts / Peter-André Alt. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2007.
Zwischen Muttermord und Muttersehnsucht : die literarische Präsentation der Mutter-Tochter-Problematik im Lichte der écriture féminine / Susanne Lackner. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2003.
