Library News for German Studies

Page through 48 German-lang. newspapers online!

Recent and current issues of German-language newspapers in Press Display from Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, and Switzerland. Includes page view images, audio files, and more.

3 concurrent users so please sign out when finished.

WU German Dept. 2008 symposium proceedings "Consuming News" available

The proceedings from the "Consuming News Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)" symposium held at WU in 2008 are now available online and in print.

The proceedings were edited by Gerhild Williams and William Layher and published as vol. 37, issue 1-2 of Daphnis : Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur.

• Print version in Current Journals area on level 1 under Daphnis. Bd. 37, 1-2.
• Online version

Words without Borders, Nov. 2009 issue on Fall of Berlin Wall

WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS : THE ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

NOVEMBER 2009: TWENTY YEARS AFTER: GERMANY THEN AND NOW

On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this month’s contributors address the events and aftermath of that transformative time in Germany. Whether witnessing the collapse of Communism firsthand or growing up in its shadow, natives and more recent arrivals explore life before and after reunification. See how Kathrin Aehnlich, Stefan Heym, Yadé Kara, Uwe Kolbe, Günter Kunert, Robert Menasse, Uwe Mengel, Thomas Pletzinger, and Feridun Zaimoglu produce a nuanced portrait of a country coming to terms with its history. We also salute Herta Müller’s Nobel with an extract from her new novel Atemschaukel.

Press Display--Access to 1000 newpapers in 39 languages!

The Libraries have subscribed to the newspaper database Press Display which provides instant access to recent and current issue of 1000 newspapers from 82 countries in 39 languages. There are 48 newspapers in German and 7 in Swedish. Some notables include:

• Der Tagesspiegel
• Die Presse (Vienna)
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• Dagens Nyheter
  
• Svenska Dagbladet

With Press Display, you can:

• Browse by language or country
• View entire issues including advertisements and illustrations.
• Listen to audio files of articles being read out loud
• Email, print, blog articles.

Only 3 concurrent users, so please log off when done!

For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu; http://libguides.wustl.edu/profile.php?uid=2787

NEW JOURNAL--European Romantic Review (1740-4657) available online!

The Libraries now have online access to European Romantic Review (ISSN 1740-4657), the Journal of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR).

The European Romantic Review publishes innovative scholarship on the literature and culture of Europe, Great Britain and the Americas during the period 1760-1840. Topics range from the scientific and psychological interests of German and English authors through the political and social reverberations of the French Revolution to the philosophical and ecological implications of Anglo-American nature writing. Selected papers from the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism appear in one of the five issues published each year.

Reference works in Xipolis no longer available--use DUDEN-Suche

Xipolis which provided online access to DUDEN dictionaries and Brockhaus encyclopedias has gone out of business as of July 31st. We have access to some DUDEN dictionaries via DUDEN-SUCHE. This includes Duden's Deutsches Universalwörterbuch and Duden : die deutsche Rechtschreibung.

I will be updating the research guides and course guides over the next few days. If you're unable to get what you need, please contact me. Please also contact me with questions.

Thanks, Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824) http://libguides.wustl.edu/germanic

Lessing-Portal--from Lessing-Akademie Wolfenbüttel

From the Lessing-Akademie Wolfenbüttel and the Wolfenbütteler Herzog August Bibliothek, a web portal for Lessing studies has been created: Lessing-Portal.

Lessing-Portal includes:

• Lachmann-Muncker edition of Lessing's works (currently only Bd. 1-3 available)

• Lessing's translations and originals

• Links to other sources

• Other information, including biographical.

Von der nationalen zur internationalen Literatur--NEW E-BOOK

New E-Book available. Scroll down to vol. 69:

 Von der nationalen zur internationalen Literatur : transkulturelle deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur im Zeitalter globaler Migration / Herausgegeben von Helmut Schmitz. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT.

New Princeton Encyc. of Poetry and Poetics--E-BOOK

New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993 edition, provides 'a comprehensive reference for those interested in the history of poetry or in any aspect of the technique or criticism of poetry. Provides surveys of national poetries; descriptions of poetic forms and genres; detailed explanations of the devices of prosody and rhetoric; and overviews of all major schools of poetry ancient and modern, Western and Eastern.' (from ebook homepage).

Germanistik Bibliography--ONLINE

Germanistik (0016-8912), the international bibliography published quarterly by Niemeyer is now available online. This is a very important resource as it organizes new publications by literary or topical period. One can easily get an overview of new publications for a particular area.

The Libraries still subscribe to the print version as well.