An Inventory of Language and Literature

From Wess

Contents 1 Home Pages & Portals 2 Linguistic Corpus Collections 3 Web Editions of Individual Authors (Open Access Scholarly Projects) 4 Journals 5 Dictionaries 6 Bibliographies, Indexes & Finding Aids 7 Directories & Handbooks.

Home Pages & Portals

• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature

Lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.

• German Studies Web: Literature Resources

Collection of links for German-language literature, ranging from electronic journals to bibliographies and text collections.

• Germanistik im Netz: Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Germanistik

Virtual Library for German Language and Literature.

Maintained by a consortium of project partners, including the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main

and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach.

• Jiddistik: Düsseldorfer Virtuelle Bibliothek

A guide to links in all areas of Yiddish Studies, academic and non-academic.

• Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women

Full text of hundreds of texts by German women writers.

• ViFaRom: Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Romanistik

Virtual Library for Romance Studies, particularly French Language, Literature, and Culture.

Also available in French.

Maintained by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn.

• Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Osteuropa - Sprache und Literatur

Language and Literature section of the Virtual Library for Eastern Europe.

Linguistic Corpus Collections

• DeutschDiachronDigital
  A reference corpus of the German language through texts in all fields from the beginnings to 1900.
  
  

Web Editions of Individual Authors (Open Access Scholarly Projects)

• Gützkow Digitale Gesamtausgabe
  
  

• Heinrich Heine Portal
  A major projects that combines the Düsseldorfer Heine-Ausgabe and the Heine-Säkularausgabe.
  
  

• Immanuel Kant: Gesammelte Schriften
  At this point, 9 of the 23 volumes of the Akademie Ausgabe are available in searchable full text.
  See also the page of the Bonner Kant-Korpus .
  
  

• The Novels of Fanny Lewald
  Full-text page images of ten of Fanny Lewald's works. Includes supplemental material (i.e. links to works of criticism). Created by Washington University Libraries.

Journals

• DigiZeitschriften
  Is subscription-based as of 2006
  
  

• Enlightenment journals (digitization project)
  A large number of 18th and 19th century journals, ranging from Berlinische Monatsschrift to Thalia. Search and browse full text.
  
  

• Exilpresse digital
  A selection of significant German exile magazines (1933-1945)
  
  

Dictionaries

• Grimms deutsches Wörterbuch
  Searchable version of the German equivalent of the OED.
  
  

• Middle High German dictionaries
  Free access to the two standard dictionaries of the Middle High German language, "Lexer" and "Benecke/Müller/Zarncke".
  
  

Bibliographies, Indexes & Finding Aids

• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
  The major bibliography for German language and literature. (Currently the years 1985-1997 are available.)
  
  

• Deutsche Dichterhandschriften des Poetischen Realismus
  A web guide for locating 19th century manuscript holdings. Created by Richard Hacken and Marianne Siegmund.
  
  

• Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv
  An index to newspaper articles (some full text) on German-language and other literatures.
  
  

• Internationale Hölderlin-Bibliographie online
  1984-
  
  

• Projekt historischer Roman
  Database for biographical and bibliographical information on the German historical novel (1770-1945). From the Universität Innsbruck.
  
  

• Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie online
  A major international bibliography. At this point only selected years are available. Full coverage of 1991-present is planned.
  
  

Directories & Handbooks.

• Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender
  Addresses of writers, literary agents, prizes, etc.
  
  

• Handbuch für Autorinnen und Autoren
  Very useful collection of addresses for literary journals, awards, associations, etc.
  
  

See also Manuscripts

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