Our Contemporary German Literature Collection continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Over 270 volumes were added in October 2016. Titles include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, and more. All were published this year. Dieter Dath’s Leider bin ich tot is one of our new titles. Click he...
A selected lists of new books especially relevant for Comparative Literature in call number order. Click on the link for the call number and availability. If you’re having trouble find a book, please ask at the Olin Help Desk or contact Brian. How literary worlds are shaped : ...
The Segregation by Design exhibition continues in Special Collections with a complementary exhibition of student work from the course Segregation by Design starting on December 8, 2016, through January 3, 2017. As part of the curriculum development process for the course Segregation by Design, a ...
The Libraries have added World Newspaper Archive: South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922 to our database resources. This fully searchable collection of English, Gujarati, and Bengali language papers gives access to local coverage of regions of the subcontinent that now comprise of India, Pakist...
A selected list of new books on German Literature (PT call number range). For additional new books relevant to Germanistik/German Studies, see New Books in German Studies (History, Philosophy, Film, Language & other Literatures), October 2016. HISTORY OF GERMAN LITERATURE BY PERIOD OR GENRE (...
“I could praise the work for pages, but it might sound like a love letter.” J.W. Jemmings, letter to Al Parker, July 24, 1939. Imagine a magazine illustrator getting fan mail. Al Parker (1906-1985) was once one of the leading magazine illustrators in America. Born in St. Louis, Missou...
The Libraries now have access to DigiZeitschriften, a full-text database of over 700 German academic journals in 19 Humanities, Social Science and Science disciplines with 8 million pages. This includes 37 journals in Mathematics, 87 in Philology, 203 in Education, 185 in the Sciences, and 9 in G...
Recently the national podcast Criminal visited the WU library. This audio documentary program was researching The Evening Whirl — one of the archival sources being consulted in Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis. The Evening Whirl is an unique St. Louis newspaper (still in publication) publishing...
Robert-Musil-Handbuch / herausgegeben von Birgit Nübel und Norbert Christian Wolf. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2016. SUMMARY: “The Austrian author Robert Musil (1880–1942) was a soldier, engineer, and trained philosopher. Besides his fragmentary novel The Man Without Qualities (1930/32)...
Gryphius-Handbuch / herausgegeben von Nicola Kaminski und Robert Schütze. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016. SUMMARY: “Andreas Gryphius is among the best-studied authors of the 17th century, yet until now, there has been no comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of his life and work. The h...
