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Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, Part II, 2000: Prescribed texts and periods

The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice of the prescribed texts and periods for Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, 2000 (New Regulations), as follows:

Dutch

Du. 3. The literature and history of the Low Countries before 1585

Section (A): Texts:
Jacob van Maerlant, Alexanders Geesten (selection); Flandrijis; Hendrik van Veldeke, Eneide (selection); Roman van Cassamus; Hadewijch (selected texts); Beatrijs van Nazareth, Van seuen manieren van minnen; Jan van Ruusbroec, Vanden blinckenden steen; Die eerste bliscap van Maria; Die sevenste bliscap van onser Vrouwen.

Topics: Alexander the Great in Middle Dutch literature; Mysticism: experience and instruction; Biblical drama.

Section (B): Texts:
Colijn van Rijssele, Spiegel der Minnen (selection); Cornelis van Ghistele, Eneas en Dido (selection); Anthonis de Roovere, Vander Mollen feeste; Jacob Duym, Belegheringhe der stadt Antwerpen; Philips van Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Vanden beelden afgeworpen; Willem van Oranje, Apologie.

Topics: The Burgundian Netherlands; Spain and the Low Countries; The Chambers of Rhetoric.

Du. 4. The literature, history, and visual arts of the Netherlands, from 1585 to 1700

Section (A); Literature:
P. C. Hooft, Granida; G. A. Bredero, Moortje; J. van den Vondel, Lucifer.

Section (B); History:
P. C. Hooft, Neederlandsche Histoorien (selection); P. C. Hooft, Geeraerdt van Velsen; J. van den Vondel, Palamedes and Leeuwendalers; Willem Ysbrandt Bontekoe, Journael (selection).

Section (C); Visual arts:
Karel van Mander, Het Schilder-Boeck (selection).

Topics:

Rembrandt van Rhijn and the Bible; Johannes Vermeer; The Seaborne Empire.

Du. 5. Dutch literature, history, and culture, since 1945

Set texts:

De Vijftigers and after: J. Bernlef, Verzamelde Gedichten (selection); Lucebert, Apocrief de analfabetische naam; G. Kouwenaar, Goede morgen haan; Rutger Kopland, Het orgeltje van yesterday.

Changes in society and literature: Louis Paul Boon, Menuet; Willem Frederik Hermans, Een wonderkind of een total loss (selection); Gerard Reve, Lieve Jongens; Harry Mulisch, De Aanslag.

The emancipation of literature: Jan Wolkers, Terug naar Oegstgeest; Maarten 't Hart, Het vrome volk; Hugo Claus, Het verdriet van Belgie; Thomas Roosenboom, Gewassen vlees.

Three classicist modern authors: Ida Gerhardt, Verzamelde gedichten (selection); Hugo Claus, Oedipus.

Postmodernism in the Netherlands and Belgium: J. Bernlef, Hersenschimmen; Cees Nooteboom, Philip en de anderen; Joost Zwagerman et al., Maximaal.

Du. 6. The history, varieties, and structure of the Dutch language

Reading lists can be obtained from the Department of Other Languages.

French

Fr. 3. French literature, thought, and history, before 1300

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 4. French Occitan literature, thought, and history, before 1356

Il Canzoniere de Jaufre Rudel, ed. G. Chiarini (Rome, 1985); Les Poésies de Peire Vidal, ed. J. Anglade, second edition (Paris, 1923); The Poems of the Troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, ed. J. Linskill (The Hague, 1964); La Chanson de Girart de Roussillon, ed. M. de Combarieu du Grès and G. Gouiran (Paris 1993).

Fr. 5. French literature, thought, and history, from 1300 to 1510

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 6. French literature, thought, and history, from 1510 to 1622

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 7. French literature, thought, and history, from 1594 to 1700

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 8. French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1789

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 9. French literature, thought, and history, from 1789 to 1898

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 10. French literature, thought, and history, since 1890

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 11. The history of the French language

W. Ayres-Bennett. A History of the French Language through Texts (London, 1996), extract nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 35, 36, 37, 43.

Fr. 12. A special subject in French culture: Language, place, otherness

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.

Fr. 13. A special period or subject in French literature, thought, or history: Modern critical theory

There are no prescribed texts for this paper. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French. Particulars of this special subject were published in the Reporter, 1987-88, p. 541.

German

Ge. 4. German literature, thought, and history, before 1230

Passages may be set for translation and commentary from the following:

Althochdeutsche poetische Texte, ed. K. A. Wipf, Stuttgart, 1992 (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 8709), nos XII (Hildebrandslied), XIII, 1 (Ludwigslied), XV, 2 (Memento mori), XVI (Muspilli).

Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan, ed. Friedrich Ranke, fifteenth edition, Dublin & Zurich, 1978, or ed. Rüdiger Krohn, Stuttgart, 1980 (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 4471-3), lines 10803-12568.

Walther von der Vogelweide, Gedichte, ed. Peter Wapnewski, Frankfurt, 1972 (Fischer Taschenbuch 6052), nos 5, 7, 9-17, 19, 21-4, 26-33.

Ge. 5. German literature, thought, and history, from 1200 to 1500

Passages may be set for translation and commentary from the following:

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm, ed. Joachim Heinzle, Frankfurt, 1991 (Bibliothek des Mittelalters (9) or Tübingen, 1994 (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek 108), lines 269, 1-333, 11.

Neidhart von Reuental, Lieder, ed. Helmut Lomnitzer, Stuttgart, 1984 (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 6927).

Oswald von Wolkenstein, Lieder, ed. Burghart Wachinger, Stuttgart, 1980 (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 2839).

Ge. 6. German literature, thought, and history, from 1500 to 1732

No prescribed texts are published, but lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German.

Ge. 7*. German literature, thought, and history, from 1700 to 1815

Subjects in history for special study: Frederick the Great and political, social, and literary aspects of the Aufklärung.

Subject in thought for special study: German Idealism with special reference to Deutscher Idealismus, ed. R. Bubner (Reclam 9916), pp. 29-280.

Ge. 8*. Goethe

Lists of recommended reading are available in the Department of German.

Ge. 9*. German literature, thought, and history, from 1815 to 1914

Subjects in history for special study: The Revolution of 1848 and The Foundation of the Second German Empire.

Subject in thought for special study: Theories of Tragedy with special reference to the following: Hegel, Ästhetik, Dritter Teil. Dritter Abschnitt. Drittes Kapitel. C. III. 3. 'Die Arten der dramatischen Poesie und deren historische Hauptmomente'; Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung I, §§ 33, 34, 49, 51, 52; Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie.

Ge. 10. German literature, thought, and history, since 1910

Subjects in history for special study: The Weimar Republic; The Third Reich; The History of the Federal Republic and the GDR.

Subjects in thought for special study: Psychoanalysis (core text: S. Freud, Das Unbehagen in der Kultur); Political Thought (core text: Carl Schmitt, Der Begriff des Politischen); Theories of Art and Culture (core text: the section 'Kulturindustrie' in M. Horkheimer and T. W. Adorno, Dialektik der Aufklärung).

Ge. 11. The history of the German language, with special reference to the following, from which passages will be set for translation and comment:

Wilhelm Braune, Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, Tübingen, 1969, passages I (1), II (3), V (2), VI, X, XII, XIII (a) and (b), XIX, XX (5) to (7), XXI (1), XXIII (1), XXXII (16) to (18), XXXVI, XLIV (lines 2902-2973); M. O'C. Walshe, A Middle High German Reader, Oxford, 1974, pp. 91-101, 119-32, 137-45; S. Singer, Mittelhochdeutsches Lesebuch, Berne, 1945, Sections I, X (lines 1-117), XV; A. Götz, Frühneuhochdeutsches Lesebuch, Göttingen, 1958, section 1(a), 3(b), 4(b), 5(a), 9(a), 12(b), 15(c), 20(d), 21 (lines 1-75), 22 (lines 1-65), 25(a) (b) (f) (h), 26(c), 27(a) (lines 1-88), 30, 33(b).

Ge. 12. A special period or subject in German literature, thought, or history (i): The German historical imagination, 1750-1945

Lists of recommended reading are available in the Department of German.

Ge. 13. A special period or subject in German literature, thought, or history (ii); German poetry from Gryphius to the present day

Lists of recommended reading are available in the Department of German.

* Questions on Goethe's Faust, Part I, may be set in connexion with Papers Ge. 7, Ge. 8, and Ge. 9.

Modern Greek

Gr. 3. The beginnings of modern Greek literature, 1100-1453, with special reference to the following:

[greek] (ed. S. Alexiou); [greek] (ed. Eideneier); [greek] (ed. Schmitt ); [greek] (ed. Pichard); [greek] (ed. Kriaras); [greek] (ed. Bakker and van Gemert); [greek] (ed. Tsavari); L. Dellaportas, [greek] (ed. Manousakas); M. Falieros, [greek] (ed. van Gemert); Bergadis, [greek] (ed. S. Alexiou).

Gr. 4. The literature, thought, and history of Crete and Cyprus in the Renaissance period, with special reference to the following:

Th. Siapkaras-Pitsillidès (ed.), Poèmes d'amour en dialecte chypriote; G. Chortatsis, [greek] (ed. S. Alexiou and M. Aposkiti), [greek] (ed. Kriaras); [greek] (ed. Martini); V. Kornaros, [greek] (ed. S. Alexiou); I. A. Troilos, [greek] (ed. Aposkiti); M. A. Foskolos, [greek] (ed. Vincent); M. Bounialis, [greek] (ed. S. Alexiou).

Gr. 5. Greek literature, thought, and history from 1700 to 1900, with special reference to the following:

[greek] (ed. Karathanasis); [greek]: (a) [greek] (ed. A. Politis); (b) [greek] (ed. Saunier); D. Solomos, [greek] (ed. L. Politis or S. Alexiou); A. Kalvos, [greek]; Makriyannis, [greek] Book I (ed. Vlachogiannis); G. Palaiologos, [greek]; E. Roidis, [greek]; D. Vikelas, [greek]; G. Vizyinos, [greek] (ed. Moullas); A. Papadiamantis, [greek] (ed. Moullas), [greek]; K. Palamas, [greek].

Gr. 6. Greek literature, thought, and history since 1900, with special reference to the following:

C. Cavafy, [greek] (ed. Savvidis); K. Theotokis, [greek]; S. Myrivilis, [greek]; G. Seferis, [greek]; K. Politis, Eroica; O. Elytis, [greek]; N. Kazantzakis, [greek]; S. Plaskovitis, [greek]; S. Tsirkas, [greek]; M. Douka, [greek]; R. Galanaki, [greek].

Gr. 7. The history and structure of modern Greek, with special reference to the following, from which passages will be set for comment (compulsory for Part II candidates, optional for Part IB candidates):

M. Glykas, [greek], lines 1-158; Le Roman de Phlorios et de Platzia Phlore (ed. Hesseling), lines 1-154; M. Falieros, [greek] (ed. van Gemert), lines 1-172; N. Sofianos, [greek]; I. Kartanos, [greek] (ed. Kakoulidi-Panou), pp. 103-13; M. A. Foskolos, [greek] (ed. Vincent), pp. 108-126; [greek] (ed. Valetas), ch. XI-XIX; Rigas, [greek] (ed. Pistas), pp. 5-21; D. Solomos, [greek] (ed. L. Politis); Makriyannis, [greek] (ed. Vlachogiannis), Book 2, ch. 1-2; Psycharis, [greek], ch. 1-6; N. Kazantzakis, [greek], pp. 11-25.

Hungarian

Hu. 3. Hungarian literature, history, and culture, before 1825, with special reference to the following:

Bornemisza Péter, Magyar Élektra; Balassi Bálint, Összes versei; Zrinyi Miklós, Szigeti veszedelem; Mikes Kelemen, Törökországi levelek; Katona, Bánk bán; Csokonai V. Mihály, Osszes versei.

Hu. 4. Hungarian literature, history, and culture, since 1825, with special reference to the following:

Petöfi Sándor, Összes versei; Kemény Zsigmond, Zord idö; Mikszáth, A Noszty fiú esete; Kosztolányi, Összes versei; Weöres, A hallgatás tornya; Konrád, A látogató.

Italian

It. 5. Florentine culture, from 1321 to 1500

Petrarch, Rime sparse, Secretum; Boccaccio, Decameron, Fiammetta; Alberti, Della famiglia; Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzoniere, Comento sopra alcuni de' suoi sonetti; Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra.

Topics in the visual arts: Donatello; Masaccio; Botticelli, Mythologies.

It. 6. Italian literature, thought, and history, since 1760

Leopardi, Canti, Operette morali; Manzoni, I promessi sposi; Verga, I Malavoglia, Mastro-don Gesualdo; Pirandello, Uno, nessuno e centomila, Sei personaggi in cerc d'autore; Svevo, Senilità, La coscienza di Zeno; Montale, Le occasioni, Ossi di seppia; Banti, Artemisia, Lavinia fuggita; Levi, Il sistema periodico, Se questo è un uomo; Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, Lezioni americane.

It. 7. Dante and the culture of his age

(a) Early Italian Poetry with special reference to: Poeti del Duecento (ed. G. Conti), selections from Giacomo da Lentini, Guido delle Colonne, Guittone d'Arezzo, Jacopone da Todi, Guido Guinizelli (I-X and XX), Guido Cavalcanti and Cino da Pistoia (I-XXIII);
(b) Duecento Prose and History with special reference to: Novellino; Dino Compagni, La Cronica (publ. Le Monnier);
(c) Topics in Visual Arts;
(d) Dante with special reference to: La vita nuova; Convivio IV; La Commedia.

It. 8. Italian culture, from 1500 to 1600, with special reference to:

(a) Literary texts and topics: Guicciadini, Ricordi; Machiavelli, Discorsi; Castiglione, Cortegiano; Bandello, Novelle; Ariosto, Orlando Furioso; Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata; comedy; pastoral drama; petrarchan lyric; the place of women in Cinquecento literary culture;
(b) Topics in the visual arts: Titian, mythologies; Bronzino, portraits; the representation of women in Cinquecento art;
(c) Historical topics: court culture (with special reference to Florence and Ferrara); the Counter Reformation and its cultural effects.

It. 9. Art and humanism in Renaissance Rome, with special reference to the works of Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel and of Raphael for the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Apartments.

It. 10. The language of Italy, with special reference to the following:

C. Battisti. 1921. Testi dialettali in trascrizione fonetica. Halle. 4 (Venice); 35 (Pisa); 41 (Rieti). F. Bruni. 1984. L'italiano: elementi di storia della lingua e della cultura. UTET, Chapter 8 (Testi dell'età umanistica e rinascimentale); Chapter 9 (Testi dell'età moderna). S. Gensini, Elementi di storia linguistica Italiana (Bergamo: Minerva Italica, 1989). B. Migliorini and T. G. Griffith, The Italian Language (London: Faber, 1984).

C. Dionisotti and O. Grayson. 1972. Early Italian Texts. 6; 7; 9 ; 15; 18; 21.

Medieval Latin

ML 1. Continuity and change in Latin literature, from 200 to 650

Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis (ed. van Beek or Musurillo), chs. 3-10; Egeria, Itinerarium (ed. Prinz or Maraval), chs. 1-16; Pervigilium Veneris (ed. Catlow or Schilling); Claudian, In nuptias Honorii et Mariae (Loeb Claudian I); Dracontius, Epithalamium Ioannis et Vitulae (ed. Díaz de Bustamante); Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (ed. Dick or Willis), Bk. I; Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae (Loeb), Bk. I.

ML 2. Medieval Latin literature, from 650 to 1300, with special reference to the following:

Waltharius (Reclam); Hrotsvitha, Dulcitius and Abraham (ed. Bertini or Homeyer); Ruodlieb (Reclam), Fragments VI-XV; Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana (ed. Walsh), nos. 1-29; Alan of Lille, De planctu Naturae (ed. Häring), sects. I-IX.

Polish

Po. 3. Polish literature, thought, and history, before 1795, with special reference to the following:

Rej, Krótka rozprawa, Kochanowski, Treny; J. A. Morsztyn, Lutnia; Pasek, Pamietniki; Naruszewicz, Satyry; Niemcewicz, Powrót posla.

Po. 4. Polish literature, thought, and history, since 1795, with special reference to the following:

Malczewski, Maria; Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz; Slowacki, Fantazy; Reymont, Ziemia obiecana: S. I. Witkiewicz, Nienasycenie; Lesmian, Wiersze wybrane.

Portuguese

Pg. 5. Portuguese literature, thought, and history, since 1850, with special reference to the period 1850 to 1935, and the following authors:

Alexandre Herculano, Antero de Quental, Miguel Torga, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Florbela Espanca, José Régio, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Almeida Faria.

Pg. 6. Brazil and Lusophone Africa: literary and historical perspectives

José de Alencar, Bernardo Guimarães, Machado de Assis, Manuel Bandeira, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Clarice Lispector, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Raquel de Queiroz, José Craveirinha, Mia Couto, Pepetela.

Russian

Ru. 3. Russian literature, history, and culture before 1300, with special reference to the following:

[cyrillic], 912-1054; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic].

Ru. 4. Russian literature, history, and culture, from 1300 to 1676, with special reference to the following:

[cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic]; [cyrillic].

Ru. 5. Russian literature, history, and culture from 1676 to 1801, with special reference to the following:

(a) Topics in Russian literature in the Reign of Catherine the Great, to include: the comedy, comic opera, and mock epic; the short story and novel; the travelogue; journalism and publishing.

(b) St Petersburg: its planning, its architecture and gardens, its myth and legends.

(c) Russia and the West, including, in particular, cultural contacts, and all aspects of Anglo-Russian relations.

Ru. 6. Russian literature and thought, from 1801 to 1883, with special reference to the following:

(a) Texts for close study passages from which may be set for comment: Pushkin, [cyrillic]; Tolstoi, [cyrillic].

(b) Topics: The lyric poetry of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tiutchev; the novels of Herzen, Goncharov, and Turgenev; drama from Griboedov to Ostrovskii; satirical prose from Gogol' to Saltykov-Shchedrin; the utopian and anti-utopian novel; aesthetics and literary criticism from Belinskii to Tolstoi; the Slavophile controversy; Populism from Herzen to Lavrov; conservative thought from Karamzin to Pobedonostsev.

Ru. 7. Russian literature, since 1883

Section A. The Theatre

1. Experiments in the theatre; 2. Theatre under Stalin; 3. Theatre after the Thaw.

Section B. Poetry

4. Exploration of form; 5. From Symbolism to Realism; 6. Poetry after World War II.

Section C. Prose

7. Early Soviet prose; 8. Literature under Socialist Realism; 9. Candidates after World War II.

Candidates will be required to answer three questions, one from each section.

There are no prescribed texts, but a list of suggested authors is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies, Room 23, Raised Faculty Building.

Ru. 8. Russian history, from 1801 to 1904, with special reference to the following:

(a) Documents for close study in relation to their historical setting: [cyrillic], ed. R. Pipes, Cambridge, Mass., 1959, [cyrillic]. 52-63, 102-119; '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic], 1927, [cyrillic]. 93-121; [cyrillic], '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1910, [cyrillic]. 115-25; '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1954, [cyrillic]. 29-36; '[cyrillic]' in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1948, [cyrillic]. 359-61, 368-70; [cyrillic], '[cyrillic]' in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1948, [cyrillic]. 187-94.

(b) The period 1801-1860.

(c) The period 1860-1904.

Ru. 9. Russian history, since 1905, with special reference to the following:

(a) Documents for close study in relation to their historical setting: '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1970, [cyrillic]. 373-75; [cyrillic], '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic], The Hague, 1958, [cyrillic]. 2-5; '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1958, [cyrillic]. 225-30, 232-39; [cyrillic], '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic], 1962, [cyrillic]. 99-100, 103-18, 123-24; '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic]. [cyrillic], 1958, [cyrillic]. 167-80, 197-208, 211-18; [cyrillic], '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic], 1945, [cyrillic]. 322-30; [cyrillic], '[cyrillic]', in [cyrillic], [cyrillic], 1986, [cyrillic]. 59-70, 95-103.

(b) The period 1905-1921.

(c) The period 1921 to the present.

Ru. 10. The history of the Russian language, with special reference to the following, from which passages will be set for comment:

Obnorskii and Barkhudarov, [cyrillic] (Moscow, 1952 and 1949), Parts I and II.

Part I: no. 1, pp. 14-16, no. 4, pp. 20-21; no. 8; no. 10; no. 12, pp. 39-40, lines 1-56; no. 13, pp. 44-46, lines 1-22; no. 17, p. 60, lines 29-63; nos. 25, 29; no. 30, pp. 114-19, lines 1-164; no. 44, p. 174-5; no. 49, pp. 203-4; no. 53, pp. 230-1; no. 55, p. 239; no. 59, III, pp. 257-9; no. 64; no. 66, III, pp. 305-6; no. 67, pp. 309-10; no. 68, pp. 317-18.

Part II: p. 83, no. 1; pp. 99-100, no. 16; p. 144; pp. 254-5.

Ru. 11. A special period or subject in Russian literature, thought, or history: Dostoevskii

Spanish

Sp. 6. Spanish literature, life, and history, before 1492, with special reference to the following:

(a) Spanish Ballads (ed. C. C. Smith, 1996), and J. G. Cummins, The Spanish Traditional Lyric (Oxford); Poema de mio Cid (ed. C. C. Smith, Oxford or Cátedra); Berceo, Milagros de Nuestra Señora (any edition); Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor (de G. B. Gybbon-Monypenny, Castalia); Juan Manuel, El conde Lucanor (ed. J. M. Blecua, Castalia); Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de amor (ed. Crítica, Barcelona, 1995), and a selection from Cancionero general (ed. J. M. Aguirre, Anaya).

(b) The Reconquest, with particular reference to the eleventh century; the culture of Moslem Spain; the reign and works of Alfonso X (extracts in Antología de Alfonso X el Sabio, ed. A. Solalinde, Austral); fifteenth-century Castile, with particular reference to race and class (F. Pérez de Guzmán, Generaciones y semblanzas, ed. Castalia).

The department gives notice that in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all the above topics, candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year's lecture courses which, if any topics are to be omitted. All topics will be examined each year.

Sp. 7. Spanish literature, thought and history, from 1492 to 1700, with special reference to the following:

(i) Narratives of self; (ii) Concepts of kingship and social hierarchy; (iii) Illusion and moral truth, (iv) Wit and the comic mind; (v) The representation of women; (vi) The world as stage: theatre and society.

Candidates will be required to attempt three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.

The Department gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above topics, candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year's lecture courses which, if any, topics are to be omitted. All topics will be examined each year.

Sp. 8. Cervantes

Sp. 9. Spanish literature, thought, and history, after 1820

(i) Gender and the nineteenth-century novel; (ii) Narrative and nationality; (iii) Experiments in prose, 1900-39; (iv) Poetry and poetics, 1900-39; (v) Metaphors of exile; (vi) Definitions of the self; (vii) Form and fantasy in theatre; (viii) Post-Franco Spanish cinema.

Candidates will be required to attempt three questions relating to three different topics in the examination. A list of suggested reading for the paper may be obtained from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

The Department gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above topics; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year's lecture courses which, if any, topics are to be omitted. All topics will be examined each year.

Sp. 11. The Hispanic languages, with special reference to the following:

Spanish:
(a) Poema de Mio Cid, Cantar I; Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor, Exemplos I-X; A. Martínez de Toledo, Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho, Part II, Chapters I-X.
(b) Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina, Autos I and XXI; Santa Teresa de Jesús, Libro de la Vida, Chapters 1-5; Francisco de Quevedo, El Buscón, Book I.
(c) G. M. de Jovellanos, Elogio de Carlos III; M. Azuela, Los de Abajo, Part II; M. Delibes, Cinco horas con Mario, Chapters 2 and 7.

Portuguese:
(a) M. Rodrigues Lapa (ed.), Crestomatia arcaica.
(b) Luis de Camões (ed. F. Pierce), Os Lusíadas, O.U.P.: Canto III, João de Barros, Defensa da lingua portuguesa
(c) Jorge Amado, Mar morto, M. F. Bacelar do nascimento et al., Português fundamental, vol. 2 Mé todos e documentos, tomo I, docs 29, 31, 53, 75, 91, 108, 129, 134, 135, 164, 194, 218, 290, 328, 340, 356, 377, 426, 476, 485, 523, 564, 598, 618, 622, 769, 776, 785, 883, 886, 1042, 1055, 1073, 1098, 1230, 1238, 1293, 1296, 1336, 1392.

Sp. 12. Latin-American literature. This paper is divided into three sections:

(a) Topics in Latin-American culture;
(b) Poetry;
(c) Narrative.

A detailed reading list is available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Sp.13. A special period or subject in Spanish literature, life, or history: Literature in Catalan, with special reference to the following:

Ramon Llull: the chronicles; humanism: Ausiàs March; 'la decadència'; 'la renaixença': J. Verdaguer: N. Oller, J. Salvat-Papasseit; 'modernisme'; 'cultura contemporània': V. A. Estellés, M. Rodoreda, P. Calders.

Linguistics

Li.1. Introduction to linguistic theory

Li. 2. Introduction to language history and use

Li. 3. Phonetics

Li. 4. Syntax

Li. 5. Semantics and pragmatics

Li. 6. History of linguistic thought

Li. 7. Historical linguistics

There are no prescribed texts or topics for Papers Li. 1-7, but details may be obtained from the Department of Linguistics.

Comparative Studies

CS 1. The Romance languages

Every candidate will be expected to show a knowledge of two at least of the Romance languages.

Prescribed texts:
Vulgar Latin: G. Rohlfs, Sermo Vulgaris Latini (3rd edn, 1969), passages, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 25, 29, 34 (i).
Romance languages: R. Sampson (ed.), Early Romance Texts, passages 50-65 (French), 31-49 (Provençal), 73-90 (Italian), 11-22 (Spanish), 1-10 (Portuguese).

CS 3. The Slavonic languages

Every candidate is expected to show a knowledge of at least one West, one South and one East Slavonic language. Passages will be set for identification and comment from the modern Slavonic languages.

CS 4.* A special subject in comparative literature (i): Gender and sexuality in medieval and early modern literature

The paper will be in two sections: A. Theoretical, social, and historical; B. Textual and thematic.

CS 5.* A special subject in comparative literature (ii): Avant-garde movements in Europe, 1910-1939

The paper will be in three sections:

A. Experiments in form; B. Explorations of the unconscious; C. Art and society.

Candidates will be required to answer three questions, not more than two from any one section. There are no prescribed texts, but a list of reading suggestions is available from the Faculty Office, Raised Faculty Building.

CS. 6.* A special subject in comparative literature (iii): Contemporary European cinema

The paper will be in two sections: A. Theoretical, social, and historical; B. Individual films, directors, and movements.

A list of sixteen prescribed films, and reading lists, are available from the Faculty Office, Raised Faculty Building.

* No candidate may offer more than one paper from among Papers CS 4-6.

PAPERS FROM OTHER TRIPOSES THAT MAY BE TAKEN IN PART II UNDER REGULATION 26 (E)

ANGLO-SAXON, NORSE, AND CELTIC TRIPOS

PART I
Paper 2. Scandinavian history in the Viking Age.
Paper 5. Old English language and literature.
Paper 6. Old Norse language and literature.
Paper 7. Medieval Welsh language and literature.
Paper 8. Medieval Irish language and literature.

PART II
Paper 7. Advanced medieval Welsh language and literature.
Paper 8. Advanced medieval Irish language and literature.
Paper 9. Old English philology.
Paper 10. Celtic philology.

CLASSICAL TRIPOS, PART II

Paper A1. Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid.
Paper A2. Past and present in Hellenistic poetry (Theocritus, Idylls 1, 2, 7, 12, 13, 15, 17, 22, 26, 29, 30; Callimachus, Hymns 1, 5, 6; Iambus 1; Aitia frr. 1-2, 67-75, 110, 178; Supplementum Hellenisticum 254-6; Herodas, Mimiamboi 1, 4, 5, 6; Moschus, Europa; Bion, Epitaphios Adonidos; 'Fragmentum Grenfellianum').
Paper A3. Ovid, Metamorphoses.
Paper B1. Plato, Phaedo .
Paper B2. Aristotle, Physics 2.
Paper D3. Classical (Greco-Roman) art.
Paper E2. Greek from Mycenae to Homer.
Paper E3. The origins and early history of the Latin language.

ENGLISH TRIPOS, PART II

Paper 2. Tragedy.
Paper 3. Chaucer.
Paper 12. Special Subject II. Option (b) Literature and visual culture.
Paper 13. History of the English language.

HISTORICAL TRIPOS, PART I

Paper 18. European history, since 1890.

HISTORICAL TRIPOS, PART II

Paper 20. The struggle for mastery in Germany, 1740-1914.
Paper 28. Conquest and conversion in Spanish America, 1492-1700.

ORIENTAL STUDIES TRIPOS

Paper H. 13. Hebrew general paper.
Paper H. 18. Hebrew special subject.
Paper Is. 13. Arabic linguistics.
Paper Is. 14. Arabic literature, 3.
Paper Is. 15. Arabic literature, 4.
Paper Is. 18. Persian literature, 2.
Paper Is. 19. Persian literature, 3.
Paper Is. 20. Islamic history, 1: Populism and nationalism: the classical background to modern ideas.
Paper Is. 21. Islamic history, 2.
Paper Is. 22. Islamic history, 3.
Paper Is. 23. Arab and Middle Eastern themes.

PHILOSOPHY TRIPOS, PART IB

Paper 8. Aesthetics

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES TRIPOS, PART II

Paper 21. Women in society.*
Paper 26. The sociology and politics of Latin America.*

THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES TRIPOS, PART II

Paper 23. Christian life and thought, 1500-1689.

* Students intending to take this paper must contact the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages.

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