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The Pynchon Playlist: Orbit publishes catalog of 927 musical references

Orbit, an open-access journal of contemporary American fiction, publishes Christian Hänggi’s article “The Pynchon Playlist: A Catalog and Its Analysis,” another puzzle piece of his exploration of music in Thomas Pynchon’s work.
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Seducing with words: The role of language in the pick-up artist’s make-believe

Daria Dayter writes a post for the university's science blog 'Sci Five' covering her collaborative research with Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth) on the discourse of pick-up artists, a self-proclaimed speed-seduction community.

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Michelle Witen interviewed by the James Joyce Quarterly for its "Clever, Very" series

Michelle Witen is featured in the latest instalment of the James Joyce Quarterly's "Clever, Very" series. In the interview, Witen discusses the upcoming "Joycean Animals" workshop at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation (co-organized with…

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Michelle Witen publishes «James Joyce and Absolute Music»

Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), explores Joyce's deep engagement with musical structure and his participation in the growing modernist discourse…

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Annual Report 2017 is out

The Annual Report 2017 of the Department of English is published and available for download.

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Thomas Messerli defended his thesis

Thomas Messerli successfully defended his thesis with summa cum laude on 26/1/2018: “Repetition in Telecinematic Humour: How US American sitcoms employ formal and semantic repetition in the construction of multimodal humour” …

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Regula Hohl Trillini's new book published

Regula Hohl Trillini published Casual Shakespeare: Three Centuries of Verbal Echoes with Routledge. The book offers an account of quotation both in and from Shakespeare's work, mostly based on material from the HyperHamlet database.

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Olivier Moreillon defended his thesis

Olivier Moreillon successfully defended his dissertation entitled „Reading the Post-Apartheid City: Durbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts beyond 2000”
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