Western European Studies

A subject search in the Duke Catalog allows you to identify books on German literature held by Duke Libraries. Use the broad search below, combining German Literature with the appropriate century and type of material you are looking for, then follow the hot-linked subject terms for more information. As a second step, combine subject terms and keywords in your search of the Duke Catalog for more information.

Duke Catalog Subject Search: German Literature
German literature - [LC Authority Record]
German literature -- 16th century - [LC Authority Record]
German literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
German literature -- 18th century - [LC Authority Record]
German literature -- 18th century -- Bibliography.
German literature -- 18th century -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
German literature -- 18th century -- Bibliography -- Periodicals.
German literature -- 18th century -- Bio-bibliography.
German literature -- 18th century -- Book reviews.
German literature -- 18th century -- Congresses.
German literature -- 18th century -- Dictionaries.
German literature -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
German literature -- 19th century -- History.
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Bibliography.
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Bibliography -- Periodicals.
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.

For books available in other libraries search Worldcat.

How to find dictionaries

• Duke Catalog Subject Search: German language -- Dictionaries -- English.
• Duke Catalog Keyword Search: German and dictionary 
• YourDictionary.com 
• Oxford Reference Online: Bilingual Language Dictionaries    
• Deutsche Rechtschreibung
  

How to find translations

• Duke Catalog Advanced Search: AUTHOR: Theodor Fontane LIMIT SEARCH TO LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
• Encyclopedia of literary translation into English. Classe, Olive.  (2000).
  Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | PN241 .E56 2000  
  

Subject Terms for Methodology

One of many starting points for the study of literary theory is:

Makaryk, Irene Rima. 
Encyclopedia of contemporary literary theory : approaches, scholars, terms. 1993
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference  PN81 .E43 1993 

University of Göttingen Bibliography of Literary Theory 

Guide to resources at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Selective Bibliography for the Study of Comparative Literature: General Sources

A comprehensive guide to the study of literature:
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

The University of Essen (Under the direction of Dr. Dagmar Spooren, Prof. Dr. Jochen Vogt, Elke Reinhardt-Becker, M.A.) provides a basic introduction to the study of literature:
Einladung zur Literaturwissenschaft. Ein Vertiefungsprogram zum Selbststudium
The introduction to methodology provides a good selection of German subject terms for further exploration (excerpt).

• Naturwissenschaftliches versus geisteswissenschaftliches Denken:
  Positivismus: Wilhelm Scherer
  Hermeneutik: Wilhelm Dilthey; Jürgen Habermas
• Von der geistesgeschichtlichen Methode zum Marxismus:
  Geistesgeschichtliche Methode
  Russischer Formalismus
  Werkimmanente Interpretation: Emil Staiger:"Grundbegriffe der Poetik"; Wolfgang Kayser
  Marxismus und Literatur: Georg Lukács; Walter Benjamin
• Von der Hermeneutik bis zum Poststrukturalismus:
  Literarische Hermeneutik: Karlheinz Stierle; Uwe Japp; Peter Szondi
  Intertextualität (nach Julia Kristeva): Michail M. Bachtin
  Rezeptions- und Wirkungsästhetik: Wolfgang Iser
  Wirkungsgeschichte: Hans Robert Jauß
  Literatursemiotik
  Literatursoziologie: Theodor W. Adorno; Pierre Bourdieu
  Psychoanalytische Literaturwissenschaft: Sigmund Freud
  Strukturalismus
  Poststrukturalismus: Jacques Lacan; Jacques Derrida
  Dekonstruktion / Deconstruction
• Historische Diskursanalyse
  Michel Foucault: Was ist ein Autor?; Jürgen Link
  Systemtheorie und Literatur: Niklas Luhmann
  Empirische Literaturwissenschaft: Siegfried J. Schmidt
  Feministische Literaturwissenschaft / gender studies
  Cultural Studies
  

Subject Terms for Literary Periods

Frenzel, Herbert A. (Herbert Alfred)
Daten deutscher Dichtung : chronologischer Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte.
Edition  26. Aufl.  München : DTV, 1991. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | 830.9000202 F879, D232, 1991  

Daten der deutschen Literatur (W. Vocke)
750-1050   Mittelalter - althochdeutsche Zeit
1050-1350 Mittelalter - mittelhochdeutsche Zeit
1350-1500 Spätes Mittelalter
1470-1600 Humanismus - Reformation
1600-1720 Barock
1720-1785 Aufklärung
1740-1780 Empfindsamkeit
1767-1785 Sturm und Drang
1786-1805 Weimarer Klassik
1775-1825 zwischen Klassik und Romantik
1793-1835 Romantik
1820-1850 Biedermeier
1830-1850 Vormärz
1850-1890 poetischer Realismus
1880-1900 Naturalismus
1900-1910 Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
1910-1925 Expressionismus
1918-1945 Weimarer Republik und Exilliteratur
ab 1945 Nachkriegsliteratur - Literatur der Gegenwart