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Details for Professor Robert Vilain
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| Name | Professor Robert Vilain | ||||
| Job title | Warden Professor of German and Comparative Literature |
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| Department | Residential and Hospitality Services University of Bristol Department of German University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | MA, DPhil (Oxon) | ||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland English Goethe Society British Comparative Literature Association |
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| Keywords | 19th- and 20th-century German and Austrian literature poetry German language european literature 19th and 20th-century French literature comparative literature The history of the book |
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| Areas of expertise | I specialize in German, Austrian and Comparative Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries with a particular focus on poetry. Core areas of interest are Modernism and the Avant-garde, Franco-German literary relations, the relationship of literature and music and the history of the book.Authors on whom I have published widely include Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Yvan and Claire Goll, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Goethe. I also have an interest in English, French and German crime fiction. |
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