239770 Sweet Thames: London's River in History and Literature (S) (SoSe 2013)

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In 1929 the MP John Burns declared that ‘The St Lawrence is water, the Mississippi is muddy water, but the Thames is liquid history’. We will take this characteristically English-sounding pronouncement as our starting point for an exploration of the River Thames as a tribal boundary, a source of food, a watery highway to domestic trading places and overseas colonies, a sacred space, a ceremonial space, a recreational space, a municipal issue, a physical threat (pollution, flooding) and a psychogeographical threat:
‘Nothing, however, equalled the black mood which once came over me as toward evening I stood on Waterloo Bridge and looked down on the water of the Thames. It seemed as though my soul was mirroring itself therein, and that it was looking back at me out of the dark waters with all its scars.’ (H. Heine, 1827)
The Thames has been painted, drawn, photographed, described in prose and verse, allegorised, despised and revered: as always, history is only accessible to us through texts, and some of these texts are literary art: ‘Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song…’

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weekly Do 14-16 C5-141 08.04.-19.07.2013
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23-ANG-AngPM2 Profile Module 2: British Studies Profilmodul 2: British Studies 2.3 British Literature and Media Study requirement
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23-LIT-LitP8 English Literature Englischsprachige Literaturen Englischsprachige Literaturen in exemplarischen Lektüren 1 Study requirement
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Englischsprachige Literaturen: Traditionen, Gattungen, Motive Study requirement
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Kern- und Nebenfach BaAngPM3   2/3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM3   2/3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM3   2/3  
Literaturwissenschaft / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Nebenfach BaLitP8    

Participants will moderate part of a class session on the basis of a website that they will design about their topic, and which will include texts of various kinds (fictional, non-fictional; literary, non-literary; prose, verse; paintings, photographs, film clips; etc.
To obtain a grade, students in the Old BA will write a seminar paper on the basis of their website/presentation.

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