Reference Books - the Department of English and American Studies

Reference Books - the Department of English and American Studies

Reference Books
Literary Studies
M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 5th ed. (Chicago/San
Francisco/London/Sydney: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1988)
Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond (eds.), Afro-American Literary Study in the
1990s (Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1989)
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory. An Introduction (Oxford, Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993)
Emory Elliott (ed.), Columbia Literary History of the United States (New York/London:
Columbia University Press, 1988)
Emory Elliott (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Colonial Writers 1735-1781,
vol. 31 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984)
Emory Elliott (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers of the Early
Republic vol. 37 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985)
Roger Fowler (ed.), A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms (London/New York: Routledge,
1987)
Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn (eds.), Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of
English and American Literary Studies (New York: MLA, 1992)
James D. Hart (ed.), The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th ed. (London/New
York: Oxford University Press, 1983)
C. Hugh Holman and William Harmon (eds.), A Handbook to Literature, 6th ed. (New York:
Macmillan, 1992)
Alfred Hornung (ed.), Lexikon amerikanischer Literatur (Mannheim/Leipzig/Wien/Zürich:
Meyers Lexikonverlag, 1992)
Vincent B. Leitch, American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1988)
David Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London/New York: Longman,
1988)
Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (eds.), Critical Terms for Literary Studies
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and
Literatures (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992) (erscheint jährlich
neu).
Donald Pizer (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Realists and Naturalists, vol.
12 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982)
Alex Preminger and T-V.F. Brogan, (ed.), The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics (Priceton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993) (ältere Auflage unter dem Titel: Princeton
Handbook of Poetic Terms).
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (eds.), Redefining American Literary
History (New York: MLA, 1990)
Jack Salzman (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Robert E. Spiller, Willard Thorpe, et. al., Literary History of the United States (New
York/London: MacMillan Publishers, 1948, 1974).
Cultural Studies
Willi Paul Adams, Ernst-Otto Czempiel, et. al., Länderbericht USA, 2 Bde. (Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1992)
Bernard Bailyn, et. al., The Great Republic: A History of the American People, 2 vols., 4th ed.
(Lexington, MA/Toronto: D.C. Heath, 1992)
Helmut Blume, USA - Eine geographische Länderkunde, 2 Bde. (Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt, 1987)
Paul S. Boyer, et.al., The Enduring Vision. A History of the American People (Washington,
D.C.: Heath & Company, 1990)
Malcolm Bradbury and Howard Temperley (eds.), Introduction to American Studies, 2nd ed.,
(London/New York: Longman, 1989)
Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (eds.), The Reader's Companion to American History
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991)
Frank Freidel and Richard K. Showman (eds.), Harvard Guide to American History, rev. ed.
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974)
Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler (eds.), Cultural Studies (New York:
Routledge, 1992)
Richard B. Morris (ed.), Encyclopedia of American History, 6th ed. (New York: Harper &
Row, 1982)
Jack Salzman (ed.), American Studies. An Annotated Bibliography, 3 vols. (Cambridge/New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
George B. Tindall and David E. Shi, America. A Narrative History (New York: Norton &
Company, 1989)
Robyn R. Warhol and Diana Price Herndl (eds.), Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory
and Criticism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991)
Gene Wise, "'Paradigm Dramas' in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of
the Movement", American Quarterly, 31, No. 3 (1979), pp. 293-337.
Further Reference Books for Cultural Studies Topics
Sydney Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press, 1972)
Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art (New York: Harper & Row, 1979)
Gerald Bordman, The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984)
Tim Cawkwell and John M. Smith (eds.), The World Encyclopedia of Film (London: Studio
Vista Publishers, 1972)
Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Film Guide, A Survey of 8000 English-Language Movies
(London: Granada Publishing, 1992)
Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Mary Gloyne Byler et.al., Guide to Research on North American
Indians (Chicago: American Library Association, 1983)
Robert V. Hudson, Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television Radio, Motion
Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books (New York: Garland Publishing, 1987)
William D. Hunt, Encyclopedia of American Architecture (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980)
Thomas M. Inge, Handbook of American Popular Culture, 3 vols. (Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1978)
Richard Jackson, United States Music: Sources of Bibliography and Collective Biography,
2nd rev. ed. (New York: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1976)
W. Augustus Low (ed.), Encyclopedia of Black America (New York: McGraw-Hill Book
Company, 1984)
J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of American Religions, 3rd ed. (Detroit: Gale Research,
1989)
Stephan Thernstrom (ed.), Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge,
Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 1980)
Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (eds.), Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel
Hill/ London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989)
Other
Klaus Poenicke, Duden. Die schriftliche Arbeit (Mannheim/Wien/Zürich: Bibliographisches
Institut/ Dudenverlag, 1985)
Klaus Poenicke, Duden. Wie verfaßt man wissenschaftliche Arbeiten?
(Mannheim/Leipzig/Wien/ Zürich: Dudenverlag, 1988)
Erwähnenswert ist in diesem Zusammenhang auch das Handbook for the Study of the United
States, ed. William Bate/Perry Frank (Washington: United States Information Agency, 1989).