Robert Leon VILAIN
Geb. 1965, Professor seit 2010, Bristol, Großbritannien/Nordirland
Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet)
- Modern German literature; Comparative literature; Poetry; Translation; Franco-German cultural relations (Lehrgebiet)
Anschrift: University of Bristol - Department of German, University of Bristol - 21 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TE
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Forschungsgebiete:
- Intertextualität
- Romantik
- Realismus, Naturalismus
- Jahrhundertwende, Expressionismus, Neue Sachlichkeit
- Gattungsgeschichte und Gattungstheorie
- Komparatistische Literaturforschung
- Literatur und andere Künste
- Poetik und Ästhetik
- Stoffgeschichte, Motivgeschichte
Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Modern German literature; Comparative literature; Poetry; Translation; Franco-German cultural relations
Monographien in Auswahl:
- (with Andreas Kramer) Yvan Goll. A Bibliography of the Primary Works , British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 26 (Berne, etc.: Lang, 2020)
- The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000)
Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:
- 'Wer lügt, macht schlechte Metaphern': Hofmannsthal's 'Manche freilich...' and Walter Pater (DVLG, 1991)
- 'Immer die Nacht. Und kein Tag'? Funktionen der Tageszeiten in der Lyrik Ingeborg Bachmanns, in Kritische Wege der Landnahme: Ingeborg Bachmann im Blickfeld der 90er Jahre (ed. R. Pichl et al.) (1994)
- 'So untheatralisch wie möglich': Carl Sternheim's Early Dramas Ulrich und Brigitte and Don Juan, in Carl Sternheim 1878-1942 (ed. A. Rogal et al.) (1995)
- 'Der neue Orpheus: Yvan Goll und Kurt Weill', in Glasba med obema vojnama in Slavko Osterc: Musik zwischen beiden Weltkriegen und Slvako Osterc (ed. P. Kuret) (1996)
- 'Orpheus' Unterschrift faksimiliert'? Yvan Goll's Bilingualism and Der Panama-Kanal, in Yvan Goll - Claire Goll (ed. E. Robertson et al.) (1997)
- (with G. Chew) 'Yvan Goll and Kurt Weill: Der neue Orpheus and Royal Palace' (ibid.)
- 'Briefe von Liliane': Claire Goll's letters to Rainer Maria Rilke, 1919-1925 (ibid.)
- 'An Innocent Abroad': The Pierrot Figure in German and Austrian Literature at the Turn of the Century (PEGS, 1997)
- (with G. Chew) Mental Blocks: The Musician's Manipulation of Narrative in Dostoevsky's/Janacek's The House of the Dead, in Janácek (ed. P. Paul Wingfield) (1997)
- '"Maske des Lächelns": Voltaire und der deutsche Expressionismus', in Frankreich und der deutsche Expressionismus / France and German Expressionism, ed. Frank Krause (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2008), pp. 115-40
- 'Thomas Mann: Doktor Faustus', in Peter Hutchinson (ed.), Landmarks in the German Novel (1) (Oxford, etc.: Lang, 2007), 199-217
- 'Hofmannsthal and England', Austrian Studies, 15: Austrian Satire and Other Essays (2007), 130-54
- 'Images of Optimism? Illustrated Editions of Voltaire's Candide in the Context of the First World War', Oxford German Studies, 37.2 (2008), 227-56
- 'Trakl and Symbolism', in Martin Liebscher, Ben Schofield and Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds), The Racehorse of Genius: Literary and Cultural Comparisons, London German Studies, 12 (Munich: Iudicium, 2009)
- 'An Englishman Abroad: Literature, Politics and Sex in John Lehmann's Writings on Vienna in the 1930s', in Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman (eds), Interwar Vienna (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2009), pp. 246-66
- '"Le style, c'est le diable": Twentieth-Century German Poetry in Dialogue with Paul Valéry', German Life and Letters, 60.3 (2007), 298-314
- 'Hofmannsthal: Der Schwierige', in Peter Hutchinson (ed.), Landmarks in German Comedy (Bern: Lang, 2006), pp. 161- 78
- 'Tragedy and the Apostle of Beauty: The Early Literary Reception of Oscar Wilde in Germany and Austria', in The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, ed. Stefano-Maria Evangelista (London & New York: Continuum, 2010), pp. 173-88
- 'Rilke und Ovid', in Nach Duino: Die späte Lyrik Rainer Maria Rilkes (Goettingen: Wallstein, 2010), pp. 43- 69
- 'Losses in Translation? French and English Versions of "Der Schwierige"', the Nameable and the Unnameable. Hofmannsthal's "Der Schwierige" Revisited, ed. Martin Liebscher, Christophe Fricker and Robert von Dassanowsky (Munich: Iudicium, 2011), pp. 150-67
- ‘Faust, Part I and France: Stapfer’s Translation, Delacroix’s Lithographs and Goethe’s Responses’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 81.2 (2012), 73–135
- ‘“Bruno’s pyre and Einstein’s time”: Atom- Poetik in Yvan Golls später Lyrik’, in Poetiken des Auf- und Umbruchs, edd. Dagmar von Hoff, Monika Szczepaniak, Lena Wetenkamp, LiteraturFilm, 6 (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2013), pp. 63– 83
- ‘Serious Games: Gerhard Rühm’s dokumentarische sonette (1969), Modern Lan-guage Review, 107.4 (2012), 1161–87
- ‘The Death of Expressionism Yvan Goll (1891–1950)’, Oxford German Studies, 42.1 (2013), 96–109
Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:
- (with E. Robertson) Yvan Goll - Claire Goll: Texts and Contexts (1997)
- (with Martin Swales & Warren Chernaik) The Art of Detective Fiction (2000)
- (with Judith Beniston) Austrian Studies, 11 (2003): 'Hitler's First Victim'? Memory and Representation in Post-War Austria
- (with Judith Beniston) Austrian Studies, 12 (2004): The Austrian Lyric
- (with Judith Beniston) Austrian Studies, 13 (2005): Austria and France
- (with Judith Beniston) Austrian Studies, 14 (2006): Culture and Politics in Red Vienna
- (with Judith Beniston) Austrian Studies, 15 (2007): Austrian Satire and Other Essays
- (with Eleoma Joshua) Edinburgh German Yearbook, 1 (2007): Kulturaustausch
- (with Judith Beniston and Geoffrey Chew) Austrian Studies, 17 (2009): Words and Music
- (with Judith Beniston and Jon Hughes) Austrian Studies, 18 (2010): The Austrian Alps
- (with Karen Leeder) The Cambridge Companion to Rilke (CUP, 2010)
- (with Karen Leeder) Nach Duino: Studien zu Rilkes späten Gedichten (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010)
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems, translated by Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland, edited and introduced by Robert Vilain (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :
- English Goethe Society
- British Comparative Literature Association
- Association for German Studies
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal Gesellschaft
- Deutsche Schiller Gesellschaft
Stipendien: Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, 2003-06
Letzte Aktualisierung: Thu Sep 26 16:02:52 2019
Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, DPhil (Oxon)