Small dictionary of world literature
The Small Dictionary of World Literature is a one-volume literary lexicon edited by Herbert Greiner-Mai and published in 1983 by VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig . The second edition appeared in 1985, the third in 1990, unchanged. The Spanish language edition was published in 2006 in Tres Cantos .
The lexicon contains over 700 articles on approx. 300 pages on literary epochs, genres, literary currents, groups and organizations as well as periodicals, publishers and book series that are significant in terms of literary history, but not on individual authors or works. The articles are sorted alphabetically and are also made accessible through a thematically sorted directory and index.
The authors involved are:
- Rainer Arnold ( African literatures )
- Renate Bauwe ( Mongolian literature )
- Jürgen Berndt ( Japanese literature )
- Horst Bien ( Scandinavian literatures )
- Ursula Bociort ( Romanian literature )
- Helga Conrad (Literatures of the Baltic States )
- Dietmar Endler ( Bulgarian literature )
- Annemarie Esche ( Burmese literature )
- Hannelore Gärtner ( French literature )
- Margot Gatzlaff ( Indian literature )
- Herbert Greiner-Mai ( German literature )
- Fritz Gruner ( Chinese literature )
- Werner Günzerodt ( Yiddish literature )
- Lucia Heine ( Sorbian literature )
- Horst Heintze ( Italian literature )
- Hans Herrfurth ( Malay literature )
- Erich Kalwa ( Portuguese literature )
- Paul Kárpáti ( Hungarian literature )
- Karlheinz Kasper ( Russian and Ukrainian literature )
- Kurt Krolop ( Czech and Slovak literature )
- Adelheid Latchinian ( Armenian literature )
- Wolfgang Lehmann ( Dutch , German and international literature)
- Ursula Lies ( Vietnamese literature )
- Otto Mallek ( Polish literature )
- Eva Manske ( literature of the USA )
- Rudolf Noack ( Spanish literature )
- Ronald Reibert (Literatures of Central Asia )
- Walther Reiss ( Yugoslav literatures)
- Reta Pensioners ( Korean Literature )
- Jürgen Ronthaler ( English literature )
- Maria Schetelich ( Indian literature )
- Rainer Schlesier ( Spanish literature )
- Kurt Schnelle ( Latin American literatures )
- Gabriele Schuckelt ( English literature )
- Wolfgang Spiewok ( German literature of the Middle Ages )
- Gotthard Strohmaier ( Hebrew literature )
- Wiebke Walther ( Arabic , Persian and Turkish literature)
- Friedel Wallesch ( German literature )
- Jürgen Werner ( Roman and Greek literature )
source
- Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature. VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diccionario Akal de literatura general y comparada. Small dictionary of world literature (Spanish) Tres Cantos, Madrid 2006, ISBN 978-84-460-1863-6