Theodor Fontane Bibliographie

The complete literature by and about Theodor Fontane during the period 1839 – 2004 is documented for the first time in this three-volume bibliography. It draws the great writer’s profile as a novelist and journalist into far sharper relief, and for the first time documents his widely published complete works in their entirety. All told, 14.000 individual titles are listed. [more ...]

Poesie der Grammatik und Grammatik der Poesie

Sämtliche Gedichtanalysen. 2 Bände

Jakobson’s late work ‘Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry’ (1981) is world-renowned as a milestone in modern literary theory. Yet hardly anyone is equal to the multilingual challenge it presents. A remedy is offered by this translation with full commentary of Jakobson’s structuralist analyses of poems and his most important poetological essays. [more ...]

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

A Bio-bibliographical Handbook

This handbook records more than 1300 Imperial Poets Laureate created within the Holy Roman Empire between 1355 and 1804, with a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. An extensive introduction sheds light on a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon. [more ...]

Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective

Until today, literary cultures and traditions have usually been studied separately, each field using its own principles and methods. The project can be considered as a contribution to gradually removing this problem and helping to gain a better understanding of literature and literary history by means of a concerted empirical research and deeper conceptual reflection. [more ...]

Gottfried Benn Bibliographie

Sekundärliteratur 1957-2003

Gottfried Benn (1886– 1956) is one of the most important poets of expressionism. With more than 2500 entries, this first personal bibliography on Gottfried Benn in over 50 years, and thus the only one to include publications after his death in 1956, comprises the international secondary literature on Gottfried Benn from 1957 to 2003. Several differentiated indices enable the user to access the literature quickly and easily. [more ...]

Die Entstehung von Goethes Werken in Dokumenten

This documentation of the genesis of Goethe's works was compiled in the 1950s at the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften [German Academy of Sciences] in East Berlin. The work reconstructs and documents the history of the genesis of Goethe's works, based on all of the currently available documents, letters and personal journal entries written by Goethe himself and those close to him. [more ...]

Internationale Bibliographie zur germanistischen Lexikographie und Wörterbuchforschung

This 3-volume bibliography brings together for the first time the international literature on research in dictionary science. Providing quick, systematic access to both historical topics and contemporary fields of interest, it constitutes a firm bibliographical foundation on which future research can build. [more ...]

Phraseologie / Phraseology

Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung / An International Handbook of Contemporary Research

Phraseology includes the whole area of language phenomena called set phrases, proverbs and fixed expressions and formulaicity in everyday parlance. The Handbook offers a critical view of research on the linguistic properties and uses of formulaicity in various types of discourse as well as in numerous languages, considering research results from the cultural sciences, language psychology, computational linguistics, and corpus linguistics. [more ...]