German

Course Structure

1. The social and political history of Austria and the GDR, including post-1945 and 1990 memory studies;
2. The relationship of literature and history in the experience of exile and literature biography;
3. The role of language use and metalinguistic perception in the formation of identity, taking into account a number of sociolinguistic phenomena from the present and past;
4. Comparative literature, which includes reference to issues of poetry, music and translation.
5. Dr Mark Allinson, (Senior Lecturer), modern German and Austrian political and social history, especially GDR history; politics in the new Bundesländer
6. Dr Steffan Davies, (Senior Lecturer), classical modernism (especially Döblin); exile; German history (19th and 20th centuries); German literature of the Classical Age (Goethe, Schiller)
7. Professor Nils Langer, (Professor), historical sociolinguistics; language contact; purism and standardisation; regional and minority languages; the history and current usage of Bristolian dialect
8. Dr Debbie Pinfold, (Senior Lecturer), Literary responses to the Third Reich; memory studies, in particular memories of the former GDR; post-1945 German literature, especially prose fiction and literature of the GDR; representations of childhood.
9. Professor Robert Vilain, (Professor), 19th- and 20th-century German; Austrian and comparative literature; poetry, modernism and the avant garde; text and image.