The Faculty Board of English give notice that the following texts, periods, and portions of subjects are for special study for the English Tripos, 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 301).
Unless otherwise stated, editions of texts are not specified.
| Paper 1. | English literature and its contexts, 1300-1550 |
| Set texts and specified topics | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, ed. B. A. Windeatt (Penguin) or in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford, 1987), Book 2, Lines 1-931; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, rev. N. Davis (Oxford, 1967), lines 1998-2530; William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, (B Text), ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, second edition (London, 1995), Passus XVIII-XIX | |
| Topics on which optional questions will be set: | |
| Christ's Body; Arthurian Settings |
| Paper 5. | Shakespeare |
| Troilus and Cressida |
| Paper 6. | Literary criticism |
| The following topics are specified for special study: | |
| Section A: Practical Criticism | |
| Section B: The Function of Criticism; Theories of Versification; Writing and the Unconscious |
| Paper 7. | European languages and literatures |
Classical Greek
Set texts for Sections A and B
Plato: On Poetry, ed. Penelope Murray (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1996)
Sophocles: Antigone, ed. Mark Griffith (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1999)
Recommended text for Section C
Homer: Iliad, 1, ed. with introduction, translation, and commentary by Simon Pulleyn (OUP, 2000)
Classical Latin
Set texts for Sections A and B
Virgil: Aeneid, VI
Horace: Odes 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12, 1.22, 1.37, 2.14, 2.20, 3.1, 3.13, 3.30, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.15
Recommended text for Section C
A Faculty online anthology of Latin verse: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/index.htm
French
Set texts for Sections A and B
Racine: Andromaque
Flaubert: Trois Contes, ed. P.-M. de Biasi (GF-Flammarion, 1986, variously reprinted)
Recommended text for Section C
A Faculty online anthology of French verse: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/index.htm
German
Set texts for Sections A and B
Goethe: Faust, lines 354-4612 (i.e. Part One), excluding 3835-4398
Brecht: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
Recommended text for Section C
A Faculty online anthology of German verse: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/index.htm
Italian
Set texts for Sections A and B
Dante: Inferno, XVIII-XXXIV (no edition specified)
Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo (Einaudi Tascabili, 1953, many times reprinted)
Recommended text for Section C
An online anthology of selections from: Cavalcanti; Dante; Petrarch; Ariosto; Tasso; Michelangelo; Leopardi; Ungaretti; Montale
Old English
Set texts for Sections A and B
Section A: Beowulf: A Student Edition, ed. George Jack (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), ll. 710-1191
Section B: Beowulf (entire)
Recommended texts for Section C
Caedmon's Hymn; Preface to the Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care; Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, selections: 'Proem', 'On Government', and 'Orfeus and Eurydice'; The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Deor; Wulf and Eadwacer; Riddles 5, 7, 12, 29, 43, 45, 55; The Wife's Lament; The Husband's Message; The Ruin; The Dream of the Rood; Passion of Saint Edmund; The Battle of Maldon; Judith; Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos; Apollonius of Tyre. All these texts are available in Old and Middle English: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Treharne (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)
| Paper 8. | English language for literature, 1300 to the present |
| Specified topics: Argument; Special Period, 1570-1630; Pastiche |
| Paper 9. | English literature and its contexts, 1300 to the present: Open dissertation |
| Paper 10. | Early medieval literature and its contexts, 1066 -c. 1350 (also serves as Paper 14 of Part II and as Paper 11 of Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos) |
Early Middle English:
English:
Set texts
The following texts and line numbers are taken from A Book of Middle English, ed. J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, third edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004):
The Peterborough Chronicle 1137, lines 1-82
The Owl and the Nightingale, lines 1-390
Lawman's Brut, lines 1-173
The following texts are taken from Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse, eds. Bella Millett and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990):
Seinte Margarete, p. 50, line 4 - p. 62, line 21
Ancrene Wisse, Part 7, p. 110, line 1 - p. 122, line 20
Lay le Freine, in The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995), lines 1-120, 135-310
Anglo-Norman:
Set texts
Beroul, Le Roman de Tristan, ed. Alfred Ewert (1939; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), lines 1437-1834
'1 The Service for Representing Adam', in Mediaeval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), lines 358-590
La Chanson de Roland, ed. Frederick Whitehead, rev. T. D. Hemming (1942; Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1993), lines 2570-2685 and 3130-3236
Marie de France, Lais, ed. Alfred Ewert (1944; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987; Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1995), 'Le Fresne', lines 1-312
Wace's Roman de Brut: A History of the British, ed. and trans. Judith Weiss (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1999), lines 12977-13298
Latin:
Set texts
'19 The Slaughter of the Innocents', in Mediaeval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)
Nigel of Longchamps, Speculum Stultorum, ed. J. H. Mozley and R. R. Raymo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960), lines 2665-2872
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the Historia Regum Britannie, ed. Michael Reeve, trans. Neil Wright (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), chapters 137-142
Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, ed. and trans. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (1914; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 286, line 17 - p. 296, line 32
'The Songs of Peter of Blois', printed in Fleur Adcock, ed. and trans., The Virgin and the Nightingale (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1983), nos X-XVII
| Group A | ||
| Paper 1. | Practical criticism | |
| Paper 2. | Tragedy | |
| Group B(i) | ||
| Paper 3. | Chaucer | |
| Paper 4. | Medieval English literature, 1066-1500 (also serves as Paper 13 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos) | |
| Subject for special study: Dreams and Visions | ||
| Paper 5. | Special period of English literature: 1500-1547 | |
| Paper 6. | Special period of English literature: 1847-1872 | |
| Paper 7. | Special subject I | |
| (a) Shakespeare and the development of English literature: Shakespeare in performance | ||
| (b) Literature, culture, and crisis, 1631-1671 | ||
| (c) This paper is not available in 2010 | ||
| (d) Modernism and the short story | ||
| Group B(ii) | ||
| Paper 8. | The English moralists | |
| Paper 9. | The history and theory of literary criticism | |
| Paper 10. | Postcolonial and related literatures | |
| Set Texts: Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land (Granta/Penguin, 1992); Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Picador, 1988); J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (London: Secker and Warburg, 1999); Bessie Head, Maru (Heinemann African Writers, 1990); Derek Walcott, Omeros (Fararr, Straus, and Giroux; Faber, 1990); Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987; Penguin); John Kinsella, The Silo (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1995); Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Methuen, 1975) | ||
| Paper 11. | American literature | |
| Paper 12. | Special subject II | |
| (a) This paper is not available in 2010 | ||
| (b) Literature and visual culture | ||
| Specified topic for Section B: Kubrick: text and genre | ||
| (c) Contemporary writing in English, 1979 to the present | ||
| Group C(ii) | ||
| Paper 28. | A special subject in comparative literature (Paper CS 5 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos): The body |