GERMAN: Context & Overviews

A comprehensive historical survey of literary theory and criticism's most important figures, schools, and movements, updated annually.

Over 1,100 entries on the history, theory, technique, and criticism of poetry, including coverage of more than 100 nations, regions, and languages. (2012)

Over 500 entries on writers, works, movements, genres, and other topics. Includes relatively strong representation of women and ethnic minority writers.

Over 200 cross-referenced entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, and drama. The exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries--including Vogelweide, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Nietzsche, Mann, and many others--are also covered.

In over 1,100 entries, this unique work encompasses the social, political and cultural life throughout the post-1945 German-speaking world.

Articles cover not only National Socialist leaders, but also more obscure party members and minor party groupings, and, in keeping with the totalitarian character of the Third Reich, articles cover such disparate areas as sports, culture, religion, and economics. Opponents and occupied nations are also covered.