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The Faculty Board of English give notice that they have prescribed the following texts, periods, and portions of subjects for special study for the English Tripos, 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 290):
Chaucer, Trolius and Criseyde, Book V, lines 1-1421 (Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, lines 491-994 (ed. J. R. R. Tolkein and E. V. Gordon, revised N. Davis); Piers Plowman, B, Passus XVIII (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, Everyman)
Topics on which optional questions will be set: The City: Paganism; The Eucharist and the Body; Idleness and Inactivity.
Specified topics: Play and Playing; Religion and the Supernatural; Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry.
Specified topics: Landscape; Literature and Science; Greece and Rome.
Specified topics:
(1830-1900) Dramatic Monologue; Pre-Raphaelitism.
(1900-Present) Dramatic Monologue; Englishness.
Hamlet
The following topic is specified for special study: The Author.
| French | Flaubert, Trois contes. |
| German | Franz Kafka, 'Das Urteil', 'In der Strafkolonie', 'Ein Landartz', 'Ein Bericht fur eine Akademie', 'Ein Hungerkunstler', 'Erstes Leid', 'Eine kleine Frau', 'Josefine, die Sangerin oder Das Volk der Mause', in Sämtliche Erzählungen (Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1980). |
| Greek | Sophocles, The Women of Trachis, ed. P. E. Easterling (Cambridge University Press, 1982). |
| Italian | Dante, Purgatorio, I-XVIII (No edition specified). |
| Latin (classical) | Horace: Satires, I.i, I.iv, I.vi; I.ix, II.i; II.ii; II.v; II.vi; II.vii. Recommended edition; Loeb, ed H. Rushton Fairclough (1926, many times reprinted). |
| Latin (medieval) | Die Lieder des Archipoeta, ed. Karl Langosch (Stuttgart, 1965, repr. 1993). |
| Old English | 'The Wanderer', 'The Wife's Lament', 'Dream of the Rood', 'Beowulf', lines 702-897, (in Bruce Mitchell and Fred Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 5th ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992); and The Wanderer, ed. T. P. Dunning and A. J. Bliss (London, 1969). |
| Spanish | Cervantes, 'El celoso extremeño', 'La fuerza de la sangre', 'El casamiento engañoso', 'El coloquio de los perros', eds. Florencio Sevilla Arroyo and Antonia Rey Hazas (Madrid, 1991). |
Set Texts:
(Group i) The Owl and the Nightingale, ed. E. G. Stanley, lines 1291-1794; Ancrene Wisse, Part 7, in Medieval English Prose for Women, ed. B. Millett and J. Wogan-Browne (rev. edn 1992). p. 110- p. 122, line 34: Selections from Layamon's Brut, ed. G. L. Brook, Section III, pp. 109-118; Early Middle English Verse and Prose, ed. J. A. W. Bennett and G. V. Smithers, Section V, 'The Fox and the Wolf'; Havelok, ed. G. V. Smithers, lines 786-1264.
(Group ii) La Chanson de Roland, ed. F. Whitehead, 1671-1760, 2375-2475; Le Mystère d'Adam, ed. P. Aebischer or P. Noomen, 205-357, 591-744; Marie de France, Lais, ed. A. Ewert: 'Laüstic', 'Chevrefoil'; Thomas, The Romance of Horn, ed. M. K. Pope, lines 4082-329; Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain, ed. T. B. W. Reid, lines 269-482, 3341-3562; Béroul, Tristran, ed. A. Ewert, (repr. 1992, Duckworth), lines 1835-2146.
(Group iii) Nigel of Longchamps, Speculum Stultorum, ed. J. H. Mozley and R. R. Raymo, lines 1503-1804; Medieval Latin Lyrics (selected), available in a booklet from the Faculty Office; Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, ed. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors, Dist. III, cap. 2, p. 224, line 17-p.236, line 23; Andreas Capellanus, De Amore, ed. P. G. Walsh, Lib. I, p. 104, para, 229- p. 114, end of para. 263; Gesta Herewardi, ed. P. G. Schmidt (excerpts in a booklet available from the English Faculty Office).
Subject for special study: Courts and Courtliness.
(a) Shakespeare and the development of English literature: Shakespeare in performance.
(b) Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
(c) Milton and his time.
(d) Samuel Johnson.
Group B (ii)
Paper 12. Special Subject II
(a) Commonwealth and international literature in English.
Set Texts: Rudyard Kipling, Kim, (1901; Oxford, 1987); Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Cape, 1981); Timothy Findlay, Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984; Macmillan, 1985); Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Women's Press, 1988); Derek Walcott, Dream on Monkey Mountain (Cape, 1972); Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather (1968; Heinemann, 1987); The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, ed. Peter Porter (Oxford, 1996).
(b) Literature and visual culture.
Specified topic for Section B : The Grand Tour, 1750-1900
(c) Literature in English since 1970.
Section A, specified topic: The Language of the City.
Paper 24. A special period or subject in French literature, thought, or history (Paper 11 of Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, in any year in which the subject announced by the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages has been approved for this purpose by the Faculty Board of English)
Subject for special study: Modern critical theory.
The Faculty Board give notice that, under Regulation 3 for the English Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 290), a candidate who offers this paper in the English Tripos may not also offer Paper 9 of Part II of the English Tripos (History and theory of literary criticism).
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Cambridge University Reporter, 3 June 1999
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