Regula Hohl Trillini

• Dr. phil.
• Lecturer at University of Basel

This contribution received the third prize of the hackathon offered by SWITCH and FORS organizations. This paper is the report of workflow and achievements of a group of three participants working on making open research data queriable by language in course of a three-day hackathon event. The group of participants decided about the best approach t...

Abstract WordWeb (http://p3.snf.ch/project-183259) is a new online, searchable repository of intertextual references in early modern drama. Thousands of text extracts with their metadata will map the mutual reception history of London theatre as a verbal network. WordWeb builds on HyperHamlet, a hypertext database of 11'000 text quotations from Sha...

Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands of quotations both in and of Shakespeare’s works which represent intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as literary value. Drawing on the insights gained as a result of a major, ongoing Digital Humanities project, this study posits a historical continuum of ca...

Die Rolle von Hamlet im anglophonen Kriminalroman ist typisch für die Rezeption und Reproduktion von Shakespeare allgemein in diesem Genre. Handlungselemente und Motive werden in spielerisch oder intellektuell elaborierten, intertextuellen Werken aufgenommen; der Autor selbst tritt gelegentlich als Figur auf; und drittens funktioniert ›Shakespeare‹...

Hamlet ist nicht nur das am meisten bearbeitete und parodierte Shakespeare-Stück, sondern auch das meistzitierte. So wie der Held im Bewusstsein vieler Menschen, die die Tragödie weder gelesen noch gesehen haben, für Shakespeare schlechthin steht, ist der Text als Fundus wiederverwendeter Phrasen unübertroffen. Schon für das 17. Jh. verzeichnet das...

Romantic writers had a habit of routine Shakespeare quotation, using phrases from his plays with very little recognizable reference to their original context in poems, novels, essays and diaries. Since then, many of these phrases have undergone lexicalization, turning from authored and traceable quotations (however casual) into anonymous idioms tha...

Roger Ascham praised Princess Elizabeth as ‘Musica ut peritissima, sic ea non admodum delectata’, ‘very skilful in music though not equally delighted with it’. This ambiguous phrase has frequently been mistranslated as ‘She is as skilled in music as she is delighted by it’ to accommodate stereotypes about a Golden Age of Music. They overlook the so...

Categorization and taxonomy are topical issues in intertextuality studies. Instead of increasing the number of overlapping or contradictory definitions (often established with reference to limited databases) which exist even for key concepts such as "allusion" or "quotation", we propose an electronically implemented data-driven approach based on th...

In the early heyday of the pianoforte, which roughly coincides with Jane Austen’s career, the instrument featured prominently in the contemporary debate about female education. Its technical opportunities inspired compositions which (whether by Beethoven or fashionable third-raters) required near-industrial practice regimes. Teenage girls practi...

Shakespeare’s plots are staged and re-adapted world-wide as his although most of them are borrowed. This double reproduction process has an analogue in the more localized success stories of phrases and metaphors from his plays. The fact that they live on as quotations and idioms in literary and everyday language is often cited as evidence for Shake...

From the Tudor period on, keyboard skills were a staple in the education of girls of ‘quality’. However, theoretical admiration of music and musical skill always co-existed with wariness of actual performers and performances. The hyperbolic musical metaphors for love and marriage contrast with a near-complete absence of harmony and edification in r...

La base de données Hyper Hamlet, développée au sein du Département d’Anglais de l'Université de Bâle permet de confirmer l’intuition qu’une citation littéraire nous parvient sous forme multiple et que le lecteur peut l’identifier, même s’il ne connaît pas le texte source. Notre article se focalise sur la façon dont la présence d’un élément étranger...

Victorian ideology extends a complex discursive web of dichotomies and analogies between language-man and music-woman, rational logos and irrational melos. The semantic openness of music parallels the emotional and sensuous inarticulateness ascribed to women so that even when they talk rather than play, their speech is received as wordless ‘song, t...

Linguistics has experienced a theoretical diversification from static and autonomous theories of language (structuralism, generativism) towards usage-based, socio-cognitive models which stress its dynamic and performative nature. This trend towards more situation-specific and discourse-centred analysis is mediated by method: corpus-based empirical...

The HyperHamlet©Project is a databank of quotations from and allusions to Shakespeare’s Hamlet consisting of a base text with hyperlinks to extracts from other texts that quote the play. References from every cultural area are encoded and searchable for bibliographical information, literary parameters (author, date and genre of quoting text, functi...

Diss. phil. Basel (kein Austausch). Literaturverz.

Abstract It is a commonplace that the piano was considered the "Household God" in middle-class Victorian households, and indeed there seems to be no Victorian novel without a piano in it. But these numerous fictional appearances are quite disappointing at first glance: they do not participate as much in characterization or even plot as they do in e...

Starting point: undergraduate's question confronting literary -isms and -ists: "Shouldn't I be some -ist, too?". Paradigm change with typical attendant uncertainty has blurred notions of what the discipline of "English" is all about. The canon is no longer guarded against outsiders and no longer protects us: our subject is enlarged by inclusivenes...