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| Semester | spring semester 2016 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Regula Hohl Trillini (r.hohl@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Students interested in Shakespeare reception history, intertextuality studies and adaptation/quotation will be introduced to HyperHamlet, an annotated collection of more than 10'000 quotations from "Hamlet" (accessible at www.hyperhamlet.unibas.ch). This active and still growing electronic research medium provides first-hand experience of research in progress in both linguistics and literary studies. The database and its search facilities accommodate a fascinating range of genres, periods and even languages, which can accommodate research projects from a wide range of fields (cf. http://www.hyperhamlet.unibas.ch/index.php/hyperhamlet/publications). After introductory readings from the relevant fields and an introduction to the database and its rationales, students will generate, upload and edit their own sample data sets and present the results. Ideally, these mini-projects will be springboards for more extended personal research (seminar papers, MA theses). To date, published research and student papers related to the database includes, for example, work on 18th-century parodies of "To be or not to be" or "Hamlet" quotations in crime fiction, "Shakespeare in Love", in Gothic novels, in Tennyson or in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (cf. the link "Publications" on HyperHamlet). |
| Learning objectives | The course will familiarize students with basic issues in intertextuality studies, particularly quotation, an outline of the history of Shakespeare reception as well as basic questions of corpus research. They will have learnt about and practiced pertinent research methods (fulltext searches, categories for corpus annotation, online editing) and should be able to develop strategies for using the data in preparation for their own projects. |
| Bibliography | A print copy of "Hamlet" (any edition). Please re-read the play in preparation. Further materials will be made available on ADAM. |
| Comments | You will need to bring your laptop to most meetings for online work. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | For MA students only |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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| Modules |
Interphilologische Lehrveranstaltungen für die Slavistik (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) Modul English & American Literature (Master's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul Literatur im Zusammenspiel der Künste und Medien (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) Modul Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) Modul Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular attendance, active participation, presenting a sample project / project outline / data set |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |