- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Johann Goethe.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | johann goethe Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals." |
Provides a small number of relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collection | johann wolfgang von goethe JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a small number of items most of which are reviews. |
| Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry Online |
goethe, johann Perform the default search. |
Provides a significant number of poems. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | johann goethe Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | johann goethe Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication." |
Provides a number of worthy items. |
| Literature Resource Center | johann goethe Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text). |
Provides a small number of quality documents. |
| netLibrary | johann goethe Perform the basic search and select the Full Text checkbox. |
Provides a large number of eBooks that refer to the author, along with a few that focus on his life and works. |
| Research Library Complete | johann goethe Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals." |
Provides a small number of items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von link.
|
Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography. |
| SIRS Renaissance | johann goethe Perform the
"Quick Search." |
Provides a number of excellent items. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von link. |
Provides a number of quality items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic
books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide
via the Internet.
Goethe's plays
PT2026.A5 1980
Location: Troy, ALThe autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PT2027 .A8 O8 1974
Location: Troy, ALTragedy of Faust
Location: eBookHermann and Dorothea
Location: eBookThe Poems of Goethe
Location: eBookEgmont: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Location: eBook
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe (1749-1832)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm
- Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc20.html
- Study Guide for
Goethe’s Faust
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ebrians/hum_303/faust.html
- Goethe: The Weimar
Age
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/z/mzh114/art002hw03.html
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