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German studies

Key resources for the discipline.

Literary Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie (print)
Deutsche Literaturgeschichte: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (print)
Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon: das 20. Jahrhundert (print)
Encyclopedia of German Literature (print)
The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature (print)
A Glossary of German Literary Terms(print)
Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (print)
Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (print)
Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank/Middle-high German Conceptual Database Medieval Literature at your fingertips: search for words, character strings and concepts in works of Middle-high German literature. (online)
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (online)
Quellenlexikon zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte (print)
Quellenlexikon der Interpretationen und Textanalysen (print)