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<body><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td><table height="1" width="75%" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="9%" height="1" rowSpan="2"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="2, 2, 57, 79" HREF="http://www.unibas.ch"></MAP><a href="../_vti_bin/shtml.exe/libra/index.htm/map"><img align="textTop" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap" border="0" height="80" hspace="5" alt="unilogo.gif (748 bytes)" src="../_borders/unilogo.gif" width="57"></a></td> <td vAlign="top" width="66%" height="7"><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><strong>DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH<small>  <br> UNIVERSITÄT BASEL</small></strong></td> <td width="32%" height="1" rowSpan="2"><p align="right"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap1"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="140, 60, 219, 76" HREF="../index.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="111, 40, 219, 59" HREF="../research/research.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="112, 20, 219, 40" HREF="../links/links.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="112, 1, 219, 19" HREF="../studying/studying.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 39, 109, 60" HREF="../courses/courses.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 19, 109, 39" HREF="../people/people.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="0, 0, 109, 19" HREF="../news/news.htm"></MAP><a href="../_vti_bin/shtml.exe/libra/index.htm/map1"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap1" border="0" height="77" alt="buttonsallpages.jpg (21061 bytes)" src="../_borders/buttonsallpages.jpg" width="220"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="bottom" width="66%" height="1"><font color="#A02F1B"><strong></strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="103%" colSpan="3" height="2"><hr color="#000000" SIZE="1"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> </td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> <p><br> <small><font color="#FF8000"><small>This page last updated on Monday, 31. March 2003         Send your comments and suggestions to</small> </font><font color="#8C0000"><small><a href="mailto:philipp.schweigauser@unibas.ch">Philipp Schweighauser</a></small></font></small></p> </td></tr></table></body>