FULL-TEXT FILES: GERMAN & SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Room 201B, Wilson Library

• German;
  
• Scandinavian;
  

• GERMAN:
  
  
  1. Die Deutsche Lyrik (MT)
     This CD contains a large collection of German poetry from the 15th to the early 20th century. It covers all volumes of German poetry published within Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek since 1945. The database has been structured to allow study of the development of German literature and language and makes it possible to examine the reciprocal influence between German poetry and politics, philosophy, and literary theory.
     
     
  2. German Literature on the Internet: Text Collections and Author Index (MT)
     
     
  3. Goethes Werke auf CD-ROM (MT)
     "This database consists primarily of the Weimar edition of Goethe's works, originally published between 1887-1919 by Hermann Bohlau .... It is supplemented by ... Goethes Gesprache, edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) and all the letters discovered since the completion of the Weimar edition: Goethes Werke, Nachtrage zur Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe (dtv, Munchen, 1990)"--User manual, p. 1-1.
     
     
  4. Heinrich Heine: Zeit, Leben, Werk (MT)
     Contains the text of Heine's collected works based on the 1910 edition of Oskar Walzel, which is keyword-searchable. Also includes portions of Gerhard Hohn's Heine-Handbuch for description and commentary, and a multi-media biographical essay, bibliographical references, the Heine reception, a time line, and a concluding pedagogical section for use with classroom instruction. Over 400 images and 100 sound clips, as well as video clips and hyperlinks.
     
     
  5. Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MT)
     The Electronic Monumenta Germaniae historica is a "selection of texts from all five divisions of Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates)." This resource supplies primary texts on the Middle Ages and German history to 1517. "It is planned to expand the content of the CD-ROM annually so that the entire body of MGH editions will be available in this format within 10 to 15 years."
     
     
  
  
• SCANDINAVIAN:
  
  
  1. Muisti (MT)
     The digitized material is produced by: Helsinki University Library (HYK), the National Archives of Finland (KA), the National Board of Antiquities (MV), the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), Turku University Library (TYK) and Åbo Akademi University (ÅA).
     
     
  2. NETUTGAFAN (MT)
     The purpose of Netutgafan is to make public on the Internet Icelandic literature and other writings.
     
     
  3. Past Masters (RK/MT)
     This cluster of full-text databases in philosophy includes the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard's Samlede Vaerker. Also available in the ETRC in CD format.
     NOTE: Helpsheet available.
     
     
  4. Project Runeberg (MT)
     Project Runeberg is an open and voluntary initiative to publish free electronic editions of Nordic literature. It has published some 200 electronic texts since December 1992. The project is coordinated by a handful of editors at Linköping University in Linköping, Sweden. it includes texts in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Finnish.
     
     
  5. Elektra: E-resources from the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark (MT)
     Includes e-journals and databases; e-classics; e-manuscripts; e-biographies & biographical portraits; e-pictures: e-pictorial works, The National Image Database.