Resources for German
Literary Criticism
- BDSL: Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft This link opens in a new windowGerman language index of (primarily) German language periodicals. Covers all aspects of German language and literature.
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, The This link opens in a new window
This Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of literary criticism/theory. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries and sub-entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. The Guide is updated annually.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Gale Literature Resource Center offers a wide range of literary resources for researchers to support their own responses, analysis, and thesis statements. It includes primary works, analysis, biographical information, criticism, and reviews that promote interdisciplinary approaches and critical thinking.
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Collections of poetry, prose and drama from authors of diverse, underrepresented groups, reflecting different ethnicities, beliefs and orientations. Includes contemporary and historical criticisms.
Bibliography
- Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new window
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for authors in the U.S. and around the world.
- Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is the online version of the series with the same name that provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of authors from all eras and genres.
- Verfasser-Datenbank This link opens in a new windowThe Verfasser-Datebank is the primary resource for German literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The resource allows users to search for articles on German-language authors from these periods.
- Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur This link opens in a new window
KLG - Critical Dictionary of Contemporary German Literature is the standard work on contemporary German literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Contains articles that comprehensively identify notable German-speaking authors. Detailed essays overlooking work and impact are complemented by extensive business directories and bibliographies of secondary literature.
Encyclopedia of German Literature by
Call Number: PT91 .E53 2000ISBN: 9781579581381Publication Date: 2000-03-01Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes over 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, "author" entries include biographies and works lists; and "works" entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations.
The Oxford Companion to German Literature by Call Number: PT41 .G3 1997ISBN: 9780198158967Publication Date: 1997-07-10Designed to be a reliable source of information on the whole sweep of literature from German-speaking countries from the eighth century onwards, the Companion comes right up to the mid-1990s, including works such as Gunter Grass's controversial novel about the unification of East and West Germany, Ein weites Feld (1995). The entries, arranged in a single alphabetical sequence, cover authors and their major works, as well as historical, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds.
History Subject Databases
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
A collection of materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The platform contains databases, books, and journals.
- Index Religiosus This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic records for books, articles, and book reviews covering theology, church history and religious studies. It is updated annually with including both newer and older material.
- Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. Includes primary and secondary materials for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more.
Primary Source Databases
- EuropeanaThe European Union's digital platform for cultural heritage materials -- artwork, artifacts, books, music, film, and more -- from EU member states.
- Early European Books This link opens in a new window
Early European Books is a collection of European materials from 1455-1700, including modern sciences, travel, Renaissance, Incunabula, church fathers, Reformation, Counter-Reformation, literature, and philosophy, sourced from major European libraries.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
The FBIS collection consists of intelligence reports from 1941-1996, gathered by the CIA from various sources like government publications, newspapers, and broadcasts. These documents, now accessible in a digital format, offer valuable insights into global events during the latter half of the 20th century.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that offers rare scholarly resources, including foreign government documents, doctoral dissertations, textbooks, and scientific research materials, as well as six area studies microfilming projects.
- Kanopy Films Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
- Criterion Collection This link opens in a new window
The Criterion Collection showcases the definitive versions of seminal titles in the history of motion pictures in streaming format. This film selection details the history of film in the 20th Century, covering the works of Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, among others.
- Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Film on Demand is a digital video streaming service providing access to educational videos from producers like A&E, PBS, National Geographic, and more. The Master Academic Collection includes videos across various fields of study, including health, humanities, science, business, and archival films.
- Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
Access to length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met’s Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, telecasts from the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and radio broadcasts dating back to 1935. All videos include English subtitles, and recent HD videos include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and/or Swedish.
- UA Video Database - GermanLink to a database of films in the University of Alabama Libraries video collection. Set to films in German.
- wwitv.com - German TelevisionAn aggregate website that collects live streams from television stations worldwide, including Germany. Under the "Countries" tab (upper left), you can also watch television streams from other German-speaking countries.
Databases
- Access World News-Historical and Current This link opens in a new window
Find diverse global perspective on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, education, science, the arts, literature, business, economics, criminal justice, and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos, and web-only content.
- Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable indexing art journalism from noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984. Art Index Retrospective cites sources published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as in English. In addition to periodicals, users will find data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
- ProQuest Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of many U.S. and international news sources. Includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Times of London, plus other newspapers and news wires.
German-Language Newspapers & Magazines
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)A widely circulating German newspaper with a center-right orientation. Based in Frankfurt.
- Der SpiegelWith one of the highest circulation rates in Europe (710,000 in 2018), the influential weekly news magazine is known for its investigative reporting. Published in Hamburg.
- UA Institutional RepositoryThe Institutional Repository (IR) is a platform for collecting, preserving, and distributing the scholarly, research, and creative works produced by The University of Alabama community. It supports and supplements academic publishing and scholarly communication via a searchable, open access, web-based publishing platform for scholarly articles, presentations, creative works, theses and dissertations, and more.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, 1743 to present.
- Dissertations and Theses at University of Alabama This link opens in a new window
This database is a companion to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, featuring current research from the University of Alabama with citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses. Full text can be downloaded by authorized University of Alabama users.
- EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) This link opens in a new window
Indexes theses written in participating colleges and universities the United Kingdom. Some of the full-texts are free; others are available for a fee.
Resources for Linguistics
- UA Research Guide for LinguisticsExplore additional resources in the field of Linguistics.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowLinguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from serials published worldwide, coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for Sociological Abstracts, LLC.
- Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLLDB) This link opens in a new window
BLLDB, an online version of BLL, is a crucial resource for bibliographical information in English, German, and Romance linguistics, compiled by the Department of Linguistics at the University Library Frankfurt/Main.
- Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new windowIED Online is a collection of fifteen dictionaries that together reconstruct the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates, and often extensive bibliographical information.
- The Leipzig Corpora Collection (Deutscher Wortschatz)A project of the University of Leipzig. The Wortschatz-Portal examines public websites to analyze usages of and relationships between words. An excellent resource for seeing how German words and phrases are used every day in online environments. Its "Wörter des Tages" (Words of the Day) features shows which words and terms are trending online.