University of Basel

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Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies

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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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New website online

The new website of the Department of English is now online.

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Literature proseminar tutorials

Two tutorials (course no. 43647) accompanying the proseminar Introduction II: Literary Theory (course no. 36485) have now been added to the course catalogue. They take place on Wednesdays 16-18h and Fridays 16-18h, respectively. …

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Early closure on 26th January

Please note that the Department of English will close at 12:00 h on Friday 26th January.
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