The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice that the prescribed texts and topics for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos 2012 are as set out below:
An introduction to contemporary literary studies, thought and context, including: an examination of intellectual and cultural trends that might reflect, or have had an impact on, the texts and film studied; and a short introduction to linguistics as it pertains to French.
Details of texts and lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of French website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/.
This paper consists of introductory topics in German literature, linguistics, history, and thought. Details of topics and lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.
Gr. 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.
Reading lists and topics for this paper will be available from the Department of Italian website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/.
This paper will be suspended for 2011–12.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions from at least two sections: Section 1: Portuguese literature/art; Section 2: Brazilian literature; Section 3: Lusophone African literature and topic-based questions.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg2.html.
This paper consists of a set text and topics in Russian history, literature, and culture. reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.
A general study of the present-day structure and varieties of Spanish, together with a study of the general linguistic background.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each section. Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp1.html.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, including at least one from Section C: (a) Texts pre-1850; (b) Texts post-1850; (c) Topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp2.html.
* Asterisked papers may only be taken by candidates who offered Option A in the language concerned in Part Ia. Such a candidate must offer at least one asterisked paper in that language in Part Ib.
† No candidate may offer more than one from among Papers Du. 5, Gr. 3, Pg. 3, Sp. 10, or Uk. 1 in any one year.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/.
This paper is suspended for 2011–12.
There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/.
This paper consists of introductory topics in German literature, linguistics, history, and thought. Details of topics and lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.
An introduction to German history and to some of the main German thinkers (such as Kant, Marx, Freud, and Habermas).
German culture, thought, and history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
German culture, thought, and history from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
This paper introduces students to the broad outlines of the historical development of the German language from the earliest times until the modern period.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.
Gr. 3. Introduction to Modern Greek language and culture (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Modern Greek as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory translation into English and two further questions on literary texts or cultural topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/ugrad/gr3.html.
This paper is suspended for 2011–12.
Reading lists and topics for these papers are available from the Department of Italian website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/.
Reading lists for this paper are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/neo_latin.html.
This paper will be suspended for 2011–12.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions from at least two sections: Section 1: Portuguese literature/art; Section 2: Brazilian literature; Section 3: Lusophone African literature and topic-based questions.
Pg. 3.† Introduction to the language and literature of Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Portuguese as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory translation into English and two further questions on texts from Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa, or topic-based questions.
Pg. 4. Self, family, nation, and empire in Lusophone culture, with special reference to the following: (i) Religion; (ii) Dictatorship; (iii) Identity, self, and other; (iv) The political family.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
Sp. 11. The Hispanic languages, with special reference to the following: (i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Port.html.
Ru. 2. This paper is suspended until further notice.
Ru. 3. The history and culture of Early Rus, before 1300, with special reference to the following: Section A: Set texts, and Section B: Topics in history and culture of Rus before 1300.
Ru. 4. Early Modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture, from 1300 to 1725, with special reference to the following: Section A: Two set texts, and Section B: Topics in the history and culture of Russia during the specified period.
Ru. 5. Russian culture from the Golden Age to the Silver Age
Ru. 6. Russian culture after 1880, with special reference to the following: Section A: Set text, and Section B: Topics in the twentieth-century Russian culture.
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1861–1905
Section C: The period 1905–1917
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1917–1934
Section C: The period 1934–1991
Ru. 9. The history of the Russian language, with special reference to the following:
(a) Reading of early texts;
(b) Changes within the language system from Early Russian to Contemporary Standard Russian.
Information about set texts, and reading lists for these papers, are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.
A general study of the present-day structure and varieties of Spanish, together with a study of the general linguistic background.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each section.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, including at least one from Section C.
(a) Texts pre-1850; (b) Texts post-1850; (c) Topics.
(i) War and the hero; (ii) Race, place, and society; (iii) Humour and the grotesque; (iv) Varieties of love; (v) The golden age comedy of manners.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions.
(i) Spain in crisis, 1890–1923; (ii) Prescriptions of gender; (iii) The art of modernity; (iv) The post-Civil War novel and Franco’s Spain; (v) Images of Spain.
(i) Nation and narration; (ii) Nightmares of the urban; (iii) Charting revolution; (iv) The racial ‘other’; (v) Penning the dictator; (vi) Labyrinths of fiction.
(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, the avant-garde, Noucentisme; (iii) The years of resistance; (iv) The post-Franco era; (v) Key aspects of Catalan culture.
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic Languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Sp.html.
This paper is available to all MML students. Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.
There are no prescribed texts or topics for these papers, but details may be obtained from the Department of Linguistics at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/.
Every candidate will be expected to show knowledge of at least two of the Romance languages. There are no prescribed texts or topics for this paper. Further information and reading lists are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/CS1/.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/.
This paper is suspended for 2011–12.
There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Further information and reading lists are available from the Department of French website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/.
Specified topics: German thought in the nineteenth century I; German thought in the nineteenth century II; German history in the nineteenth century I; German history in the nineteenth century II.
Specified topics: German thought in the twentieth century I; German thought in the twentieth century II; German history in the twentieth century I; German history in the twentieth century II.
There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German and Dutch at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.
Gr. 3.‡ Introduction to Modern Greek language and culture (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Modern Greek as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory translation into English and two further questions on literary texts or cultural topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/ugrad/gr3.html.
Reading lists and topics for this paper will be available from the Modern Greek Section and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/.
Άνθη 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.
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; M. Axioti; Δύσκολες νύχτες; N. Engonopoulos, Ποιήματα; N. Kazantzakis, Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά; K. Tachtsis, Το τρίτο στεφάνι; Y. Ritsos, Τέταρτη διάσταση; T. Valtinos, Η κάθοδος των εννιά; R. Galanaki, Ο βίος του Ισμαήλ Φερίκ Πασά.
Reading lists and copies of texts, from which passages will be set for comment (compulsory for Part II candidates, optional for Part Ib candidates), are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/ugrad/gr7.html.
This paper is suspended for 2011–12.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of Italian website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/.
Reading lists for these papers are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/neo_latin.html.
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory translation into English and two further questions on texts from Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa or topic-based questions.
(i) Religion; (ii) Dictatorship; (iii) Identity, self, and other; (iv) The political family.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
This paper is suspended for 2011–12.
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Port.html.
Section A: Set texts.
Section B: Topics in history and culture of Rus before to 1300.
Section A: Two set texts.
Section B: Topics in the history and culture of Russia during the specified period.
Section A: Set text.
Section B: Topics in the twentieth-century Russian culture.
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1861–1905
Section C: The period 1905–1917
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1917–1934
Section C: The period 1934–1991
(a) Reading of early texts;
(b) Changes within the language system from Early Russian to Contemporary Standard Russian.
Information about set texts, and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.
Sp. 7. Spanish literature, thought, and history, from 1492 to 1700, with special reference to the following: (i) Narratives of self; (ii) Wit and illusion: The Baroque vision; (iii) Don Quijote and the world of fiction; (iv) Discovering the other; (v) The world as stage: Theatre and society.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
This paper is suspended until further notice. This paper cannot be replaced by an Optional Dissertation.
(i) Nature and culture; (ii) Experiments in form; (iii) Writing memory; (iv) Staging issues; (v) Between women.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, the avant-garde, Noucentisme; (iii) The years of resistance; (iv) The post-Franco era; (v) Key aspects of Catalan culture.
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
This paper is divided into two sections: (a) Topics in Latin-American culture; (b) Writers and artists.
This paper is divided into two sections: (a) Topics in contemporary Latin-American culture; (b) Writers, film directors and artists.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp13.html.
(a) Set texts: Poema de Mio Cid; Juan Ruiz, Libro de Buen Amor; Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor; Diego de San Pedro, selected works; spectacle and the origins of theatre; court poetry. (b) Topics: (i) Female voice and the representation of women; (ii) Living well, dying well; (iii) Convivencia; (iv) Treachery and taboo in Medieval epic and epic legend; (v) Myth, history, and nation building; (vi) Crisis and conflict in fifteenth-century Castile.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each section.
Further information and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Sp.html.
These papers are available to all MML students. Reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.
There are no prescribed texts or topics for these papers, but details may be obtained from the Department of Linguistics at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/.
Every candidate will be expected to show knowledge of at least two of the Romance languages. There are no prescribed texts or topics for this paper. Further information and reading lists are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/CS1/.
(a) Old Church Slavonic;
(b) The historical development of the Slavonic languages;
(c) Topics in Slavonic linguistics.
Information about set texts, and reading lists for this paper is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.
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 on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/cs5/.
Details of topics, prescribed films, and reading lists are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/cs6/.
The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice of the following papers in Schedule D (papers taken from other Triposes) that may be taken in Part II under Regulation 24 for the examination in 2011–12.
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 5. A subject in Old English literature specified by the Faculty Board of English
Paper 6. Advanced medieval Scandinavian language and literature
Paper 7. Advanced medieval Welsh language and literature
Paper 8. Advanced medieval Irish language and literature
Paper 11. Germanic philology
Paper 12. Celtic philology
Paper MES. 39 Special subject in the pre-Modern Middle East
Paper MES. 40 Special subject in the Contemporary Middle East: political anthropology of Islam and the Middle East
Paper MES. 41 Comparative semitic linguistics
Paper A1. A prescribed Greek author or authors, and a prescribed Latin author or authors: Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid
Paper A2. Prescribed Greek texts: Sophocles and myth
Paper A3. Prescribed Latin texts: Horace, Epodes, and Odes I–III
Paper B1. Plato
Paper B2. Aristotle: Aristotle’s moral and political thought
Paper C4. A subject in ancient or medieval European history: Transformation of the Roman world (Paper 12 of the History Tripos, Part II)
Paper D3. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art: The poetics of classical art
Paper E2. The Greek language: Greek from Mycenae to Homer
Paper E3. The Latin language: Latin and its neighbours
Paper 2. Tragedy
Paper 3. Chaucer
Paper 10. Postcolonial and related literatures
Paper 12. Special subject II, Literature and visual culture (in any year in which the subject ‘Literature and visual culture’ has been prescribed as an option by the Faculty Board of English)
Paper 18. European history, since 1890
Paper 4. History of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890
Paper 21. The French and British problem, since 1688 [The number of MML candidates for this paper will be capped at 3.]
Paper 25. The long road to Modernization: Spain 1800–2000. This paper will be suspended until 1 October 2012.
Paper 27. A subject in extra-European history specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: The history of Latin America in the colonial period, c.1500–1830
Papers in the subject Experimental Psychology
Paper 11. Aesthetics
Paper Int. 7. Society, politics, and culture in Latin America