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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, 2002 (New Regulations), as follows:
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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.
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).
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.
Ge. 4. German literary culture in the early and high middle ages.
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 literary culture in the later middle ages.
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.
Subjects in thought for special study: German Idealism with special reference to Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the Rise of Aesthetics with special reference to Hamann, Kant, Lessing, Moritz, Schiller, F. Schlegel, and Winckelmann. Lists of suggested reading are available from the Department of German.
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
This paper deals with the history of the language from Old High German to the present. There are no prescribed texts: lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German.
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 connection with Papers Ge. 7, Ge. 8, and Ge. 9.
Gr. 3. The beginnings of modern Greek literature, 1100-1453, with special reference to the following:
Διγενής Ακρίτης (ed. E. Jeffreys); Πτωχοπροδρομικά ποιήματα (ed. Eideneier); Χρονικον του Μωρέως (ed. Schmitt ); Καλλίμαχος και Χρυσορρόη (ed. Pichard); Βέλθανδρος και Χρυσάντζα (ed. Kriaras); Ιστορία του Βελισαρίου (ed. Bakker and van Gemert); Ο Πουλολόγος (ed. Tsavari); L. Dellaportas, Ποιήματα (ed. Manousakas); M. Falieros, Ερωτικά Όνειρα (ed. van Gemert); Bergadis, Απόκοπος (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, Η Ελευθερωμένη Ιερουσαλήμ (ed. S. Alexiou and M. Aposkiti), Πανώρια (ed. Kriaras); Στάθης (ed. Martini); V. Kornaros, Ερωτόκριτος (ed. S. Alexiou); I. A. Troilos, Ροδολίνος (ed. Aposkiti); M. A. Foskolos, Φορτουνάτος (ed. Vincent); M. Bounialis, Ο Κρητικός Πόλεμος (ed. S. Alexiou).
Gr. 5. Greek literature, thought, and history, from 1700 to 1900, with special reference to the following:
´Ανθη Ευλαβείας (ed. Karathanasis); Το δημοτικό τραγούδι: (a) Κλέφτικα (ed. A. Politis); (b) Της ξενιτιάς (ed. Saunier); D. Solomos, Ποιήματα (ed. L. Politis or S. Alexiou); A. Kalvos, Ωδαί; Makriyannis, Απομνημονεύματα Book I (ed. Vlachogiannis); G. Palaiologos, Ο Πολυπαθής; E. Roidis, Η Πάπισσα Ιωάννα; D. Vikelas, Λουκής Λάρας; G. Vizyinos, Νεοελληνικά Διηγήματα (ed. Moullas); A. Papadiamantis, Α. Παπαδιαμάντης Αυτοβιογραφούμενος (ed. Moullas), Η Φόνισσα; K. Palamas, Η Ασάλευτη Ζωή.
Gr. 6. Greek literature, thought, and history, since 1900, with special reference to the following:
C. Cavafy, Ποιήματα, Ανέκδοτα ποιήματα (ed. Savvidis); K. Theotokis, Η τιμή και το χρήμα; S. Myrivilis, Η ζωή εν τάφω; G. Seferis, Ποιήματα; K. Politis, Eroica; O. Elytis, Προσανατολισμοί; N. Kazantzakis, Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Ο Χριστός ξανασταυρώνεται; S. Plaskovitis, Το φράγμα; S. Tsirkas, Η Λέσχη; M. Douka, Η αρχαία σκουριά; R. Galanaki, Ο Βίος του Ισμαήλ Φερίκ Πασά.
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, Στίχοι οὓς ἔγραφε καθ´ ὃν κατεσχέθη καιρόν, lines 1-158; Le Roman de Phlorios et de Platzia Phlore (ed. Hesseling), lines 1-154; M. Falieros, Ιστορία και Όνειρο (ed. van Gemert), lines 1-172; N. Sofianos, Παιδαγωγός; I. Kartanos, Παλαιά τε και Νέα Διαθήκη (ed. Kakoulidi-Panou), pp. 103-13; M. A. Foskolos, Φορτουνάτος (ed. Vincent), pp. 108-126; Χρονικό του Γαλαξειδιού (ed. Valetas), ch. XI-XIX; Rigas, Σχολείον των ντελικάτων εραστών (ed. Pistas), pp. 5-21; D. Solomos, Διάλογος (ed. L. Politis); Makriyannis, Απομνημονεύματα (ed. Vlachogiannis), Book 2, ch. 1-2; Psycharis, Το ταξίδι μου, ch. 1-6; N. Kazantzakis, Ασκητική, pp. 11-25.
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.
It. 6. Italian literature, thought, and history, since 1800
Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Italian.
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.
ML 1. Continuity and change in Latin literature, from 200 to 650
This paper is suspended until further notice.
ML 2. Medieval Latin literature, from 650 to 1300
Details of texts and topics to be determined.
NL 1. Introduction to Neo-Latin literature, 1350-1700
Reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty Office.
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, Paula Rego, José Saramago.
Pg. 6. Brazil and Lusophone Africa: literary and historical perspectives
José de Alencar, Bernardo Guimarães, Machado de Assis, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Clarice Lispector, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Raquel de Queiroz, José Craveirinha, Mia Couto, Pepetela.
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 Métodos e Documentos, tomo I, docs 29, 31, 53, 75, 91, 108, 129, 134, 135, 164, 194, 2118, 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.
Catalan:
Paul Russell-Gebbett, Mediaeval Catalan Linguistic Texts (Oxford: Dolphin Book Co., 1965), texts nos. 20, 35, 39, 41, 47, 48, 51, 53, 56, 57, 61, 68, 71, 73, 76.
Ru. 3. Russian literature, history, and culture, before 1300, with special reference to the following:
Повестъ врекенных лет, 912-1054; Житие Феодосия Печерского; Слово о полку Игореве; Моление Даниила Заточника; Поучение Владикира Монокаха; Житие Александра Невского.
Ru. 4. Russian literature, history, and culture, from 1300 to 1676, with special reference to the following:
Житие Петра, царевича ордынского; Житие китрополита Петра; Хождение Афанасия Никитина; Докострой; Видение хутынского понотаря Тарасия; Повестъ о Юлъянии Осоръиной; Житие протопопа Аввакука.
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, Евгений Онегин; Tolstoi, Анна Каренина.
(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: Н. М. Каракзин, Записка о Древней и новой России, ed. R. Pipes, Cambridge, Mass., 1959, стр. 52-63, 102-119; 'Дело Н. И. Пестеля', in Восстание декабристов, под ред. М. Н. Покровского, Москва-Ленинград, 1927, ток 4, стр. 93-121; С. С. Уваров, 'Десятилетие Министерства народного просвещения 1833-43гг', in ,поха Николая І, под ред. М. О. Гершензона, Москва, 1910, стр. 115-25; 'Манифест 19 февраля 1861г', in Крестъянская рефорка в России 1861 года, под ред. К. А. Софроненка, Москва, 1954, стр. 29-36; 'Програкка и писъко исполнителъного кокитета партии Народиая воля' in Хрестокатия по истории СССР, под ред. С. С. Дкитриева, Москва, 1948, ток 3, стр. 359-61, 368-70; С. Ю. Витте, 'О приложении русской прокышленности' in Хрестокатия по истории СССР, под ред. С. С. Дкитриева, Москва,. 1948, ток 3, стр. 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: 'Манифест 17 октября 1905г', in Хрестокатия по истории СССР 1861-1917гг под ред. С. С. Дкитриева, Москва, 1970, стр. 373-75; С. Ю. Витте, 'Писъко о Манифесте 17 октября 1905г', in С. Ю. Витте, Воспокинания царствования Николая ІІ, The Hague, 1958, ток 2, стр. 2-5; 'Доклады началъника Петербургского охранного отделения…', in Рабочее движение в Петрограде в 1912-1917гг, под ред. Ю. И. Кораблева, Ленинград, 1958, стр. 225-30, 232-39; В. И. Ленин, 'Апрелъские тезисы', in Сочинения, Москва, 1962, ток 31, стр. 99-100, 103-18, 123-24; 'Заседания ЦК РСДРП/б/, январъ-февралъ 1918г', in Протоколы централъного кокитета РСДРП/б/. Август 1917-февралъ 1918, Москва, 1958, стр. 167-80, 197-208, 211-18; И. В. Сталин, 'О задачах хозяйственников', in И. В. Сталин, Вопросы Ленинизка, Москва, 1945, стр. 322-30; Н. С. Хрущев, 'Доклад на закрыток заседании ХХ съезда КПСС', in Бранко Лазич, Исторический очерк…, Лондон, 1986, стр. 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:
(a) An anthology of source material, available from the Department of Slavonic Studies;
(b) Topics: (i) Changes within the language system: sounds; grammatical categories; semantics.
(ii) Changes in the social dimensions of language: diglossia; the development of the standard language.
Ru. 11. A special period or subject in Russian literature, thought, or history: Dostoevskii
Sp. 6. Spanish literature, life, and history, before 1492
(a) Set texts: traditional song; Poema de mio Cid; Berceo, Milagros de Nuestra Señora; Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor; Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor; Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor; fifteenth-century poetry; ballads.
(b) Topics: (i) Social hierarchy, gender, and ethnicity; (ii) Sin and sanctity; (iii) Love and marriage; (iv) Death and dying; (vi) Spectacle and the origins of drama.
(c) Historical topics: (i) Reconquest; (ii) Moslem Spain; (iii) Reign and works of Alfonso X; (iv) Crisis and conflict in fifteenth-century Castile.
Candidates will be required to attempt three questions from at least two of the sections (set texts, topics, or historical topics).
The Department gives notice that in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above topics: candidates 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. 10. Introduction to Catalan language and culture
(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, Noucentisme, Avantguardisme, 1900-39; (iii) Cultural resistance to the dictatorship 1939-75; (iv) Postmodernity in the postdictatorship.
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.
Catalan:
Paul Russell-Gebbett, Mediaeval Catalan Linguistic Texts (Oxford: Dolphin Book Co., 1965), texts nos. 20, 35, 39, 41, 47, 48, 51, 53, 56, 57, 61, 68, 71, 73, 76.
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 web page of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
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 2. The Germanic languages
Every candidate is expected to show a knowledge of Gothic and at least two other older Germanic languages from the following list: Old Norse, Old English, Old Saxon, Old High German. Passages in these languages will be set for identification and linguistic commentary.
CS 3. The Slavonic languages
With special reference to the comparative linguistics of Russian, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian: sounds; grammatical categories; semantics; the formation of standard languages; the present language situation.
CS 4.† A special subject in comparative literature (i)
Please note that this paper is suspended until further notice.
CS 5.† A special subject in comparative literature (ii): The body
The paper will be in four sections: A. Illness and pain; B. Mind and body; C. Sexuality and performance; D. Power and politics.
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.† Modern European film
The paper will be in two sections: A. Theoretical, social, and historical; B. Individual films, directors, and movements.
A list of twenty 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)
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.
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.
Paper A1. Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid.
Paper A2. Tragedy and Politics.
Paper A3. Ovid, Metamorphoses.
Paper B1. Plato, from Phaedo to Theaetetus.
Paper B2. Aristotle, Physics 2.
Paper D3. Classical (Greco-Roman) art.
Paper E2. Greek from Alexander to the Fall of Constantinople.
Paper E3. Latin as a World Language: from Classicism to Christianity.
Paper 2. Tragedy. Paper 12. Special Subject II. Option (b) Literature and visual culture.
Paper 3. Chaucer.
Paper 18. European history, since 1890.
Paper 20. Nation, state, society, and culture in Germany, 1794-1914.
Paper H. 13. Hebrew general paper.
Paper H. 18. Hebrew special subject.
Paper Is. 15. Arabic literature, 3.
Paper Is. 18. Persian literature, 2.
Paper Is. 19. Persian literature, 3.
Paper Is. 20. Middle Eastern and Islamic history, 4.
Paper Is. 21. Middle Eastern and Islamic history, 5.
Paper Is. 22. Middle Eastern and Islamic history, 6.
Paper Is. 23. Middle Eastern and Islamic history, 7.
Paper 11. Aesthetics
Paper Int. 7. Society, politics, and culture in Latin America.*
* Students intending to take this paper must contact the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages.
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