Honour School of Modern Languages

A

• 1. The subjects of examination in the Honour School of Modern Languages shall be the French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Medieval and Modern Greek, Czech (with Slovak),¹ and Celtic¹  languages and the literatures associated with them, and Linguistics.  Save in the case of the subjects Czech (with Slovak) and Celtic, which may be offered only with another of the languages, a candidate may offer one or two languages, or one language and Linguistics. The standard of competence required of a candidate shall be the same in any language which hethey or she offersoffer whether it be his or hertheir sole language or one of two languages.

• 2. Every candidate shall be required to show, in the case of any language which hethey or she offersoffer, a competent knowledge:

  • (1) of the language as it is spoken and written at the present day, such knowledge to be tested by oral and written examination;

  • (2) of at least one specified period in its literature;

  • (3) of the history, thought, and civilization of the country necessary for the understanding of the language and literature.

• 3. A candidate offering one language shall be required to show a competent philological knowledge of the language hethey or she isare offering. A candidate offering two languages shall be permitted to offer a paper or papers on philological topics.

•  4. Candidates offering the subject Linguistics shall be required to show a competent knowledge of analytical techniques and problems in descriptive and theoretical linguistics and the application of these to the language they are offering.

• 5. No candidate shall be admitted to examination in this School unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.

• 6 5. The examiners shall indicate in the lists issued by them the subject or subjects offered by each candidate obtaining honours or satisfying the examiners under the appropriate regulation. In drawing up the Class List the examiners shall satisfy themselves that each candidate has shown an appropriate level of competence both in literature (and linguistic studies where this applies) and in language.

• 7 6. The board of the faculty shall by notice from time to time make regulations concerning the examination; and shall have power in respect of each subject included in the examination:

  • (1) to determine, within the limits of this decree, the form and content of the individual papers of the examination, and

  • (2) to issue a list of Special Subjects, prescribing books or authorities where they think it desirable. Such books or authorities may be in other languages than that to which the Special Subject is related. A Special Subject may be concerned with a language or literature not specified in clause 1 of this Regulation.

• 8 7. A candidate whose name has been placed in the Class List upon the result of the examination in any one or more of the subjects included in the examination shall be permitted to offer himself or herselfthemselves for examination in any of the other subjects so included at the examination in either the next year or the next year but one, provided that no such candidate shall offer any of the languages or subjects already offered by him or herthem in the Honour School of Modern Languages or in the Honour Schools of History and Modern Languages, Philosophy and Modern Languages, Classics and Modern Languages, or English and Modern Languages, or European and Middle Eastern Languages, or Modern Languages and Linguistics, and provided always that hethey or she hashave not exceeded six terms from the date on which he or shethey first obtained Honours in a Final Honour School.

B

Candidates will be examined in accordance with the examination regulations set out below.

They will also be required to spend, after their matriculation, a year of residence in an appropriate country or countries, and to provide on their entry form for the examination a certificate that they have done this, signed by the Head or by a tutor of their society. Candidates wishing to be dispensed from the requirement to undertake a year of residence abroad must apply in writing to the Chair of the Medieval and Modern Languages Board, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF, stating their reasons for requesting dispensation and enclosing a letter of support from their society.

Candidates should during this year abroad undertake a programme of activity acceptable to their college or society. They will also be expected to carry out during this year abroadperiod  such academic work as their society may require. It is strongly recommended that candidates should apply through the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges for an Assistantship, where these are available, and should accept one if offered. Candidates who are not able to obtain an Assistantship should during their year abroad follow a course or courses in an institution or institutions approved by their society, or should spend their time in such other circumstances as are acceptable to their society. Candidates will agree with their College Tutor in advance of their year abroad an independent course of study to be followed during that period.

It is strongly recommended that candidates offering two languages who spend their year abroad in a country or countries of one of the languages only should in addition spend between their matriculation and examination at least four weeks in a country of the other language.

Candidates may offer either one or two languages. The standard of competence shall be as high for candidates who offer two languages as for those who offer only one. A candidate offering one language may also offer Linguistics. The papers and choices of options available to candidates for each of the two courses will be the same.

Candidates may additionally offer an Extended Essay, good performance in which will be taken into account in allocating all classes.

The following is the general scheme of papers in Modern Languages:

I, II, III Language papers

IV, V Linguistic Studies

VI, VII, VIII Period of Literature or Period Topics

IX Early Texts

X, XI Prescribed Authors (German XI: EarlyGerman Thought; Portuguese XI: Modern Prescribed Texts or Goethe)

XII Special Subjects

XIII General Linguistics (as specified for Paper A in the Special Regulations for Linguistics in all Honour Schools including Linguistics)

XIV Extended EssayDissertation

Candidates must take one of the schedules of papers listed in 1 below, subject to the general and specific conditions listed in 2, and the special regulations concerning Paper XII Special Subjects listed in 3 and concerning Paper XIV Dissertation listed in 4.

1. Combinations of Papers

• I. A candidate who offers two languages must take the written papers listed below, and oral examinations in both languages:

  • Five papers in language A

    • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

    • One of VI, VII, VIII 

    • Two of IV, V, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV

  • Four papers in language B

    • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

    • One of VI, VII, VIII 

    • One of IV, V, IX, X, XI, XII

  • Optionally, XIV Extended Essay

• II. A candidate who offers one language only must take the written papers listed below, and the oral examination in the language:

• (a) French:

  • Three language papers I, II(A+B), III

  • One of VI, VII, VIII

  • Five of IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII

  • Optionally, XIV Extended Essay

• (b) Spanish:

  • Three language papers I, II(A+B), III

  • Paper IX

  • Two of VI, VII, VIII, XIII 

  • Three of IV, V, X, XI, XII, XII (Modern Galician or Modern Catalan) of which at least one must be IV or V

  • Optionally, XIV Extended Essay

• (c) All other languages:

  • Three language papers I, II(A+B), III

  • Paper IX

  • Two of VI, VII, VIII, XIII 

  • Three of IV, V, X, XI, XII, XIV, of which at least one must be IV or V

  • Optionally, XIV Extended Essay

•  III. Candidates offering one language and Linguistics must take eight papers as listed below, and the oral examination in the language.

  •  Three  papers in the language:

    • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

    • One  of VI, VII, VIII

  •  Four papers in Linguistics:

    • IV and V (in the language)

    • XII (drawn from Special Subjects bearing the Linguistics identifier)

    • XIII

  • One paper, from IX, X, XI, or XII (whether in the language or Linguistics)

  • Optionally, XIV Extended Essay

• Candidates must avoid substantial overlap between Paper XII Special Subjects and other Linguistics Papers.

• IV. Candidates offering one language with Polish must offer:

  • Three papers in Polish: II(A+B), IV or V,  VIII

  • Six papers in the other language, as specified below

  • Oral examination in the other language

  • Optionally, XIV Extended Essay

• In French

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • One of VI, VII, VIII, XIII

  • Three of IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV (provided that no more than two of IV, V, IX are taken)

• In German

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • One of VI, VII, VIII, XIII

  • Three of IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV (provided that no more than two of IV, V, IX are taken)

• In Italian

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • One of VI, VII, VIII

  • One of IV, V

  • Paper IX

  • One of IV or V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV

• In Spanish

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • One of VI, VII, VIII, XIII

  • Paper IX

  • Two of IV or V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XII (Modern Galician or Modern Catalan), XIV

• In Russian

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • One of VII, VIII

  • Paper IX

  • Two of IV or V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV

• In Portuguese

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • One of Papers VI, VII, VIII

  • Three of IV or V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV

• In Medieval and Modern Greek

  • Two language papers I, II(A+B)

  • Two of VI, VII, VIII, XIII

  • Two of IX, X, XI, XII, XIV

Examination answers must be written in English, except when directions are given to the contrary.

Candidates will be required to attend for an oral examination in each language they offer. A candidate failing to appear for the oral examination, without good cause shown, will be deemed to have withdrawn from the whole examination.

In the oral examination a candidate will be required to show in each language hethey offersoffer competence in the following:

• (i) ComprehensionA ofshort a passage or passages of text;discourse

• (ii) A short discourse;Conversation.

Candidates in Russian and Czech are required to show competence in

• (iii) ConversationListening comprehension

The mode of assessment of each paper and detailed examination arrangements will be as set out in the Course Handbook. ReadingPapers aloudI, mayII, III, IV and V will normally be examined by an in-person written examination; papers VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XIIA will normally be requiredexamined ofby candidatesan asonline awritten furtherexamination; testpapers ofXIIB, theirXIIC, pronunciation XII, XIII and XIV will be examined by coursework submission.

2. Special Provisions

• i. All candidates offering Italian must offer at least one of IV, V, IX in Italian

• ii. A candidate offering two languages is required to offer, in one language,

• either at least one of papers IV, V

• or at least one pre-Modern paper as designated below:

  • French VI, VII, IX, X

    German VI, VII, IX, XI(A)

    Italian VI, VII, IX, X

    Spanish VI, VII, IX, X

    Portuguese VI, VII, IX, X

    Russian VI, VII, IX

    Medieval and Modern Greek VI, VII, IX, X

    Celtic VI, IX, X

    Czech IX

  • or one Paper XII designated as pre-Modern.

  • or one Paper XIV on pre-Modern topic.

Details of Paper XII Special Subjects which have been designated as pre-Modern will be provided in the list of Special Subjects published by the Faculty by the beginning of the fifth week of the Trinity Term one year before the examination.

3. Paper XII Special Subjects

Candidates may offer only one Paper XII, with the following exceptions:

• (a) Candidates offering Spanish as a sole language or as one of two languages may offer two Paper XII Special Subjects in total, provided that one is either Modern Catalan or Modern Galician;

• (b) Candidates offering Linguistics may offer either one or two Paper XII Special Subjects. Where one Special Subject is offered, it must bear the appropriate Linguistics identifier. Where two Special Subjects are offered, one must bear the appropriate Linguistics identifier. Candidates offering two languages may not chose to do a Special Subject bearing only a Linguistics identifier.

Candidates offering a Paper XII Special Subject in the second of two languages (Language B) may choose only a Special Subject bearing the appropriate language identifier.

CandidatesInstead of a Special Subject from the list for the year concerned, a candidate offering Spanish as a sole language or in combinationthe withHonour School of Modern Languages may offer any languageone of papers B1-B6 of the Honour School of Modern Languages and Linguistics, subject to the agreement of the Director of Studies of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. This option is not available to candidates offering two languages or to candidates for any joint school involving Modern Languages other than Portuguesethe mayHonour offer oneSchool of theModern followingLanguages papersand in Portuguese as a Paper XII Special Subject: Paper X, Paper XI, half of the period covered in Paper VII or Paper VIIILinguistics.

4. Detailed specifications of papers I to XIV

I, II, III Language Papers

• French

  • I Essay in French

    IIA Translation from Modern French

    IIB Translation into Modern French

    III Translation from pre-Modern French

• German

  • I Translation into German and Essay in German

    IIA Translation from Modern German

    IIB Translation from Modern German

    III Translation from pre-Modern German

• Italian

  • I Essay in Italian

    IIA Translation from Italian

    IIB Translation into Italian

    III Translation from pre-Modern Italian

• Spanish

  • I Prose translation from English into Spanish and an essay in Spanish

    IIA Translation from Modern Spanish

    IIB Translation from Modern Spanish

    III Prose translation from English into Spanish and a translation from Spanish into English (medieval or golden age)

• Portuguese

  • I Prose composition and essay

    IIA Translation from Modern Portuguese (European)

    IIB Translation from Modern Portuguese (Brazilian)

    III (A) Translation from pre-Modern Portuguese and (B) a Year Abroad Essay

• Russian

  • I Translation into Russian and essay in Russian with further specifications

    IIA Translation from Modern Russian

    IIB Translation from Modern Russian

    III Translation from pre-Modern Russian with further specifications

• Czech (with Slovak)

  • I Translation into Czech or Slovak and essay in Czech or Slovak

    IIA Translation from Modern Czech

    IIB Translation from Modern Slovak

• Medieval and Modern Greek

  • I Translation into Modern Greek and essay in Modern Greek

    IIA Translation from Modern Greek

    IIB Translation from Modern Greek

    III Translation of a prose text in kathareuousa into English

• Polish

  • IIA Translation from Modern Polish

    IIB Translation into Modern Polish

• Celtic

  • I Translation into Irish or Welsh and essay in Irish or Welsh

    IIA Translation from Modern Irish or Modern Welsh

    IIB Translation from Irish from the period up to 1200 or Welsh from the period up to 1400.

IV. Linguistic Studies I.

French:

The History of the French language up to the mid-twentieth century.

The paper will consist of two sections as follows. Candidates must answer questions from both sections.

• (1) The history of the language (phonetics, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, semantics, sociolinguistics, external history).

• (2) The description of the language of literary and non-literary texts from past periods. Candidates may confine their answer(s) to one of the following sub-sections:

• (a) From Latin to Early Old French: Before 1150;

• (b) Old and Middle French: 1100-1530;

• (c) Renaissance and Classical French: 1530-1715;

• (d) Into Modern French: 1715-1940.

Optional passages from textsTexts for linguistic and stylistic commentary will be set for each period. The following are suggested as illustrativespecified texts:

• (a)in Studerthe and Waters, HistoricalFHS French Reader,course 1, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13.

• (b) Studer and Waters, Historical French Reader, 20, 26, 34, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47, 65.

Passages for commentary will be selected from the texts listed above.

In (c) and (d) the texts will be selected from appropriate literary and non-literary workshandbook.

German:

The development of the German language from 1170 to the present,.  withTexts afor special study of:

Wernerwill derbe Gärtner,specified Helmbrechtin (Reclamthe edn.).

MartinFHS Luther,German Sendbriefcourse vom Dolmetschen, ed. K. Bischoff, pp. 6/7-28, l. 21/29, l. 22, and pp. 36-57handbook.

Italian:

The history of the Italian language from the earliest times to the twentieth century.

Spanish:

The history of the Spanish language to 1700. The paper will be divided into three sections, and candidates must answer from two: (a) to 1250; (b) 1250-1500; (c) 1500-1700.

Portuguese:

The history and structurevarieties of the Portuguese language. Candidates will be required to show knowledge of the descriptivehistorical analysisdevelopment from Latin to modern Portuguese in its different dialectal varieties, including Portuguese-based creoles, and knowledge of the contemporarybasic languageprinciples of historical linguistics and dialectology, as usedapplied into PortugalPortuguese. andThis Brazil,paper andwill ofinclude itscommentaries historicalon developmentlinguistic samples.

Russian:

The history of the Russian language. with the following textsTexts prescribed:

• (1) for linguistic comment:

  • (a) Marginalia to Novgorod service books (V. V. Ivanov et al., Khrestomatiya po istorii russkogo yazyka, Moscow, 1990, pp. 26-7).

    Novgorod birchbark texts, nos. 247, 752, 644, 605, 424, 776, 724, 717, 725, 531, 705, 765, 142, 370, 363, 364, 361, 43, 49, 154 (A. A. Zaliznyak, Drevnenovgorodskii dialekt, Moscow, 2004, pp. 239-40, 249-54, 267-8, 271-2, 307-9, 350-4, 396-7, 415-20, 422-4, 480-1, 536-8, 588-90, 606-7, 614, 651-2, 672-3).

    Vkladnaya Varlaama (Zaliznyak, pp. 458-60).

    Treaty of Alexander Nevsky and Novgorod with the Germans, 1262-3 (S. P. Obnorsky and S. G. Barkhudarov, Khrestomatiya po istorii russkogo yazyka, part 1, 2nd edn., Moscow, 1952, pp. 51-2).

    Novgorod First Chronicle, s.a. 6738-9 (ed. A. N. Nasonov, Novgorodskaya Pervaya letopis' starshego i mladshego izvoda, Moscow-Leningrad, 1950, pp. 69-71).

  • (b) Afanasy Nikitin, Khozhenie za tri morya (Ivanov et al., pp. 322-5).

    Dukhovnaya gramota I. Yu. Gryaznogo (Ivanov et al., pp. 279-80).

    Letter of T. I. Golitsyna to V. V. Golitsyn (S. I. Kotkov et al., Moskovskaya delovaya i bytovaya pis'mennost' XVII veka, Moscow, 1968, p. 20).

    Letters of D. V. Mikhalkov to M. I. Mikhalkova and P. D. Mikhalkov (Kotkov et al ., pp. 39-40 (17b-v), 41 (18b)).

    Letters of U. S. Pazukhina to S. I. Pazukhin and E. Klement'ev to F. M. Chelishchev (S. I. Kotkov and N. P. Pankratova, istochniki po istorii narodno-razgovornogo yazyka XVII-nachala XVIII veka, Moscow, 1964, pp. 169-70, 233).

    Letters of Peter I to Tsaritsa Natal′ya Kirillovna, to F. M. Apraksin, to B. P. Sheremetev (Pis′ma i bumagi Petra Velikago, vol. 1 (1688-1701), St Petersburg, 1887, No. 6, p. 11, No. 14, pp. 15-16; vol. 5 (1707), St Petersburg, 1907, No. 1695, pp. 221-2; vol. 7(i) (1708), St Petersburg, 1918, No. 2186, pp. 35-6).

    Evidence of A. Turcheninov on fire of 29 May 1737 (A. I. Sumkina and S. I. Kotkov, Pamyatniki moskovskoi delovoi pis'mennosti XVIII veka, Moscow, 1981, pp. 159-60).

    Letters of V. B. Golitsyn to Vl. B. Golitsyn, M. D. Kurakina to B. I. Kurakin, M. M. Shcherbatov to D. M. Shcherbatov (Sumkina and Kotkov, pp. 24-6, 49-50 (50), 73-4).

• (2) for translation and linguistic comment: will be specified in the FHS Russian course handbook.

  • (a) Colophon to Ostromir Codex (Ivanov et al., pp. 15-16).

    Mstislavova gramota (Ivanov et al., pp. 39-41). Colophon to Mstislav's Gospel Book (Ivanov et al., pp. 49-50).

    Spisok ubytkov novgorodtsev, 1412 (Zaliznyak, pp. 686-692).

    Russkaya Pravda (Ivanov, et al., pp. 67-73).

    Novgorod First Chronicle, s.a. 6633-8, 6675-7, 6700, 6712, 6777-80 (Nasonov, pp. 21-2, 32-3, 40, 46-9, 87-90).

  • (b) Statejnyi spisok G. I. Mikulina (D. S. Likhachev, Puteshestviya russkikh poslov XVI-XVII vv., Moscow – Leningrad, 1954, p. 178, 4th paragraph – p. 181, 2nd paragraph).

    Domostroi (Obnorsky and Barkhudarov, part I, pp. 236-241).

    Ulozhenie Alekseya Mikhailovicha, Chapter 10 (Ivanov et al., pp. 380-1).

    G. Kotoshikhin, O Rossii v tsarstvovanie Alekseya Mikhailovicha, Chapter 4, Section 24, Chapter 13, Sections 1-4 (ed. A. E. Pennington, Oxford, 1980, pp. 65-7, 159-63).

    Stateinyi spisok P. A. Tolstogo (Obnorsky and Barkhudarov, part 2:1, 1949, pp. 72-5).

    Candidates will be required to show knowledge either of the texts listed under (1) (a)-(b), of those listed under (1) (a) and (2) (a), or of those listed under (1) (b) and (2) (b).

Medieval and Modern Greek:

The History of Modern Greek Language. The paper will study the development of Greek language from Koine to Standard Modern Greek. A discussion of the Language Debate will be included in this paper.

Czech (with Slovak):

The history of Czech and Slovak. PassagesTexts prescribed for passages for commentary and translation will be takenspecified fromin Porák,the ChrestomatieFHS kCzech vývojicourse českého jazyka (1979), pp. 31-40, 54-64, 72-88, 115-18, 126-31, 383-7. Candidates will be required to write one translation, one commentary, and two essay-type questionshandbook.

Polish:

The History of the Polish Language.

Celtic:

Comparative and Historic Celtic Linguistics. Passages will be set for linguistic commentary on one of (a) The history of Welsh or of Irish and Scottish Gaelic or (b) Comparative Celtic Linguistics.²

V. Linguistic Studies II.

French:

Modern French. Candidates will be required to show knowledge of theThe descriptive analysis of theModern contemporary languageFrench, and will have the opportunity of discussing the historical development of the language where this illuminates present-day usage. The paper will containincluding optional questions on thetheoretical principleslinguistic of descriptive linguisticsissues to be answered with particular reference to French. 

German:

Either

• (1) Old High German, with the following texts.Texts prescribed for study: Wwill be specified int he FHS German course handbook. Braune, Althochdeutsches Lesebuch (17th edn., by E. A. Ebbinghaus): V Gespräche ; VIII Isidor, cap. iii; XX Tatian, subsections 2, 4, and 7; XXIII Notker, subsections 1 and 13; XXVIII Hildebrandslied; XXIX Wessobrunner Gebet; XXX Muspilli; XXXII Otfrid, subsections 7 (Missus est Gabrihel angelus) and 21 (De die judicii); XXXVI Ludwigslied; XLIII Ezzos Gesang, Strasbourg version only. 

  Or

• (2) Descriptive analysis of German as spoken and written at the present day (phonetics, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, semantics, style). The paper will contain optional questions on the principles of descriptive linguistics to be answered with particular reference to German.

Italian:

Modern Italian. Candidates will be required to show knowledge of the descriptive analysis of the contemporary language, and will have the opportunity of discussing the historical development of the language where this illuminates present-day usage. The paper will contain optional questions on the principles of descriptive linguistics to be answered with particular reference to Italian.

Spanish:

Modern Spanish. Candidates will be required to show knowledge of the descriptive analysis of the structure and variation of contemporary Spanish in its major European and American varieties, and knowledge of the contemporarybasic languageprinciples of linguistic theory, as usedapplied into Spain and in the AmericasSpanish.

Portuguese:

Varieties ofModern Portuguese. Candidates will be required to applyshow knowledge of the descriptive analysis of the structure and sociolinguistic variation of contemporary European and Brazilian Portuguese, and knowledge of the basic principles of descriptivelinguistic linguistics to the analysis of regional and social varieties of the Portuguese of Portugaltheory, Brazil,as and Africa, andapplied to Portuguese-based creoles. This paper will include commentaries on linguistic samples.

Russian:

Either

• (1) The development of the Church Slavonic language,. with the following textsTexts prescribed:

  • (a) for linguistic comment:

    Kiev Missal and Euchologium Sinaticum (R. Auty, Handbook of Old Church Slavonic, London, 1968 and subsequent reprints, Pt. ii, Texts and Glossary, passages IV, pp. 52-7, and VI, pp. 64-9).

    Luke x: 25-37 (Auty, passage XIV, pp. 97-106: ed. L. P. Zhukovskaya et al., Aprakos Mstislava Velikogo, Moscow, 1983, p. 131).

    Psalm liv (ed. S. Sever'yanov, Sinaiskaya Psaltyr', Petrograd, 1922, pp. 67-9; ed. E. V. Cheshko et al., Norovskaya psaltyr'. Srednebolgarskaya rukopis' XIV veka, Sofia, 1989, Pt. ii, pp. 387-91; Psaltir s posljedovanjem Ðurd~a Crnojevića 1494, reprinted Cetinje, 1986; the Synodal Bible of 1751 and subsequent editions, e.g. Moscow, 1815, St Petersburg, 1820).

  • (b) for translation and linguistic comment:

    Vita Constantini, xiv-xv, xvii-xviii, Vita Methodii, v-xvii, the Treatise on Letters, the Acrostich Prayer (A. Vaillant, Textes vieux-slaves, Paris, 1968, Pt. i, Textes et glossaire, passages I, pp. 30-3, 37-40, II, pp. 46-55, III, pp. 57-61, IV C. pp. 68-70).

    Povest′ vremennykh let, s.a. 6406 (D. S. Likhachev, Povest′ vremennykh let, part I, Moscow – Leningrad, 1950, pp. 21-23).

    Zhitie sv. Stefana episkopa Permskogo (ed. V. Druzhinin, St Petersburg, 1897, reprinted The Hague, 1959, pp. 69-74).

    V. F. Burstov's Bukvar' (V. V. Ivanov et al., Khrestomatiya po istorii russkogo yazyka, Moscow, 1990, pp. 369-74).

    Candidates will be requiredspecified to show knowledge ofin the textsFHS listedRussian undercourse (1) (a) and (1) (b)handbook.

  • Or

• (2) Descriptive analysis of Russian as spoken and written at the present day (phonetics, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, semantics, style). The paper will contain optional questions on the principles of descriptive linguistics to be answered with particular reference to Russian.

Medieval and Modern Greek:

The structure of the standard language as spoken and written at the present day (phonetics, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, semantics, style). The paper will contain optional questions on the principles of descriptive linguistics to be answered with particular reference to Modern Greek.

Polish:

Descriptive analysis of Polish as spoken and written at the present day.

VI. Topics in the period of literature (French only) or Period of literature (i):

French: to 1530.

German: MedievalBeginnings Germanof Culturewriting (to 1450)1550: Texts, Contexts, and Issues. 

Italian: 1220-1430.

Spanish: to 1499.

Portuguese: to 1540.³

Medieval and Modern Greek: Byzantine Greek to 1451453.3

Celtic: Medieval Irish up to 1600 and Medieval Welsh up to 1500. [Candidates will be able to confine their answers to questions on either Irish or Welsh topics.]

VII. Topics in the period of literature (French only) or Period of literature (ii):

French: 1530-180041800⁴

German: Early Modern German Culture (1450-1730): Texts, Contexts, and Issues. 1800  

Italian: 1430-1635

Spanish: 1543-1695

Portuguese: 1500-169731697³

Russian: 1100-1700

Medieval and Modern Greek: Medieval Greek to 1669

VIII. Topics in the period of literature (French only) or Period of literature (iii):

French: 1715 to the present.3⁴

German: Modern German Literature (17301770 to the present day): Texts, Contexts, and Issues. 

Italian: Modern Italian Literature and Cinema  (1750 to– thePresent presentDay) and Cinema 

Spanish: The literature of Spain and of Spanish America: 1811 to the present.

Candidates may offer themselves for examination either in the literature of both Spain and Spanish America, or in the literature of Spain only, or in the literature of Spanish America only.

Portuguese: The literature of Portugal, Brazil, and BrazilLusophone Africa: 17611820 to the present.

Candidates may offer themselves for examination either in the literature of both Portugal and Brazil, or in the literature of Portugal only, or in the literature of Brazil only.

Russian:  1820––present

Medieval and Modern Greek: Modern Greek, 1821 to the present.

Czech (with Slovak): Czech and Slovak literature, 17741816 to the present.

Polish: Polish literature from the late 18th century to the 20th century.

Candidates will be required to answer three questions.

5IX.  ⁵  Medieval Prescribed Texts (excluding Russian) or Enlightenment Texts (Russian only):

French:

In French paper IX, the commentary section of the paper will include compulsory passagesTexts for translation.

La Chanson de Roland, ed. Whitehead (Blackwell).

Béroul, The Romance of Tristran, ed. Ewert (Blackwell).

Villon, Œuvres, ed. Longnon–Foulet, 4th edn., with a special study of Le Testament, 1-909, 1660-end, and Poésies Diverses IX-XVI.

Candidates will be requiredspecified toin translatethe fromrelevant onemodern orlanguage’s moreFHS passagescourse set for commenthandbook.

German:French

Das Nibelungenlied, ed. K. Bartsch et al. (Reclam 1997), avent. 1, 14-17, 23-30, 36-9.

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, books 3, 5, and 9.

Heinrich von Morungen, Lieder, ed. H. Tervooren (Reclam 1986)

Das Osterspiel von Muri and Das Innsbrucker OsterspielGerman

Italian:

Dante, La divina commedia, with a special study of two of the three Cantiche.

Spanish:

Poema de mio Cid, ed. Michael (Clásicos Castalia).

Juan Ruiz, Libro de Buen Amor, ed. Gybbon-Monypenny (Clásicos Castalia).

Comedia o tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, ed. P. E. Russell (Clásicos Castalia).

Portuguese:

E. Gonçalves and M. A. Ramos, A Lírica Galego-Portuguesa (Comunicação).

Alfonso X the Learned, Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology, ed. Stephen Parkinson (MHRA Critical texts)

Fernão Lopes, Crónica de D. João I (textos escolhidos), ed. T. Amado (Comunicação).

Zurara, Crónica dos feitos de Guiné (chs. 1-25). (Candidates are advised also to read Zurara, Chronique de Guinée, ed. L. Bourdon (Ifan-Dakar, 1960)).

Russian:

The syllabus will consist of the following texts with passages for commentary eligible to be set from those marked with an*:

Avvakum, Zhitie*

‘Povest' o Savve Grudtsyne’; ‘Povest' o Frole Skobeeve’; ‘Povest' o Bove Koroleviche’

Antiokh Kantemir Satires I*, II, IV, VII, IX

Mikhailo Lomonosov: ‘Oda na vzyatie Khotina’; ‘Pis'mo o pol'ze stekla’, ‘Oda torzhestvennaya (1747)*; ‘Oda torzhestvennaya (1762)*; ‘Utrennee razmyshlenie o bozhiem velichestve’*, ‘Vechernee ramyshlenie’*.

Aleksandr Sumarokov, ‘Epistola o stikhotvorstve’; ‘Lyubovnye elegii’ [extracts]*

Denis Fonvizin, Brigadir, Nedorosl'*;

Vassily Kapnist, Yabeda

Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushen’ka

N.I. Novikov, Satiricheskie zhurnaly. Excerpts.

M. Chulkov, Prigozhaya povarikha*

Alexander Radishchev, Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu [3 chapters to be prescribed*]

Gavriil Derzhavin: ‘Bog’*; ‘Pamyatnik geroyu’; ‘Vel'mozha’; ‘Vlastitelyam i sud'yam’; ‘Russkie devushki’; ‘Evgeniyu. Zhizn' zvanskaya’*; ‘Solovey vo sne’; ‘Na smert' knyazya Meshcherskogo’*, ‘Priglashenie k obedu’; ‘Pamyatnik’; ‘Moi istukan’; ‘Reka vremen v svoem stremlenii’.

Nikolai Karamzin, Bednaya Liza*, Ostrov Borngol'm; Pis’ma russkogo puteshesvennika [extracts]

Vassily Zhukovsky, Svetlana; ‘Sel’skoe kladbishche’*

Ivan Krylov, ‘Pis’mo o pol’ze zhelanii’; ‘Strekoza i muravei’, ‘Vorona i lisitsa’, ‘Lebed' rak i shchuka’, ‘Volk i iagnionok’, ‘Volk na psarne’, ‘Kvartet’, ‘Ryb'i pliaski’

Konstantin Batiushkov, ‘Moi Penaty’*; ‘Moi genii’; Elegiia; Na razvalnyakh zamke v Shvetsii;

Alexandr Pushkin, Ruslan i Liudmila; selected lyrics*

Medieval and Modern Greek:

 Candidates may choose one of either A or B:⁶

The commentary section of the paper will include compulsory passages for translation.

• A: Byzantine texts:Texts

  Paul the Silentiary, Ekphrasis of Haghia Sophia (ed. Friedlander).

Christ and Paranikas, Anthologia graeca carminum Christianorum, pp. 147-236 and 247-52.

The Life of St Andreas Salos (ed. L. Ryden).

Michael Psellos, Chronographia, bk. VI (ed. S. Impellizzeri, vol. 1, pp. 246-320, and vol. 2, pp. 8-152).

• B: Medieval vernacular texts:

  Digenis Akritis: the Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (ed. E. M. Jeffreys).

Livistros kai Rodamni (ed. P. A. Agapitos).

Ptochoprodromos (ed. H. Eideneier).

Passages will not be set from:

Digenis Akritis, Grottaferrata version, book V.

Ptochoprodromus, poem IV.

Czech (with Slovak):

Dalimilova kronika, chs. 1-32, 41, 66-70, 102-6.

Život svaté Kateřiny.

Tkadleček.

Candidates will be required to answer one question on each of the three texts, including one commentary. They will also be required to translate a passage.

Celtic:

Any four of the following: Early Texts (commentary section of the paper will include compulsory passages for translation).

Togail Bruidne Da Derga, ed. E. Knott (Dublin, 1936)

Fingal Rónáin and Other Stories, ed. D. Greene (Dublin, 1955).

Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin, ed. D. A. Binchy (Dublin, 1963).

Serglige Con Culainn, ed. M. Dillon (Dublin, 1953).

Cath Almaine, ed. P. O. Riain (Dublin, 1978).

The Irish Adam and Eve Story from Saltair na Rann, ed. D. Greene and F. Kelly (Dublin, 1976).

Canu Aneirin, ed. I. Williams (Cardiff, 1938).

Canu Llywarch Hen, ed. I. Williams (Cardiff, 1935).

Armes Prydein, ed. I. Williams (Cardiff, 1955; or Dublin, 1972).

M. Haycock, Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar (Y Bala: Barddas, 1994).

Culhwch ac Olwen, ed. R. Bromwich and D. Simon Evans (Cardiff, 1992).

Selection from the series: R. Geraint Gruffydd (gen. ed.), Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion vols. I, II, V–VII (Cardiff, 1991-6).

X. Modern Prescribed Authors (i) (excluding Portuguese) or Renaissance Prescribed Texts (Portuguese only): 4 5^7,8 Passages for explanation and comment will be taken from the works prescribed for special study, which will be specified in the relevant modern language's FHS course handbook. Candidates will be expected to have read works by their chosen authors other than those prescribed for special study.

French:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Rabelais, with a special study of Gargantua and Le Quart Livre.

• (2) Montaigne, with a special study of Essais, I. 20 (Que philosopher, c'est apprendre à mourir), I. 23 (De la coutume et de ne changer aisément une loi reçue), I. 26 (De l'institution des enfants), II. 17 (De la praesumption), II. 6 (De l'exercitation), III. 2 (Du repentir), III. 5 (Sur des vers de Virgile), III. 13 (De l'expérience). 

• (3) Pascal, Les Provinciales, Pensées et opuscules divers, éd. G. Ferreyrolles et P. Sellier, in La Pochothéque (Livres de poche/Classiques Garnier), with a special study of Pensées, 1-414; 419-671; 680-690; 694-695; 697-717; 742-769; De l'esprit géométrique et de l'art de persuader. 

• (4) Molièère, with a special study of L'École des femmes, Les Fourberies de Scapin, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, Le Malade Imaginaire.  

• (5) Racine, with a special study of: Andromaque, Britannicus, Bérénice, Bajazet, Iphigénie, Athalie in Théâtre complet, ed. J. Rohou (Pochothèque, Livre de Poche, 1998). 

• (6) Voltaire, with a special study of Romans et contes, ed. E. Guitton (Pochothèque, Livre de Poche, 1994): the following works: Zadig, Paméla (pp. 138–96), Candide, contes de Guillaume Vadé (pp. 339–453), La Princesse de Babylone, Les Lettres d’Amabed, Le Taureau blanc; Lettres philosophiques, ed. F. Deloffre, Folio. 

• (7) Diderot,

• (8) with a special study of Le Rêve d’Alembert, ed. Chouillet, LivreMadame de Poche,La Jacques le fataliste, ed. Belaval, Folio Le Neveu de Rameau, ed. Varloot, Folio, Le Salon de 1765, ed. Bukdahl and Lorenceau, Hermann.Fayette

German:

Any two of the following:

• [For students starting before MT 2016:

   

• (1) Luther, with a special study of Von der Freyheyt eyniβ Christenmenschen (http://luther.chadwyck.co.uk).Goethe 

• (2) Gryphius, with a special study of Gedichte, ed. Elschenbroich (Reclam). Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Gryphius's drama.Hoffmann 

• (3) Grimmelshausen, with a special study of Simplicissimus (Teutsch). Candidates will further be expected to have studied others of the ‘Simplizianische Schriften’.Heine 

• (4) Goethe as dramatist, with a special study of Faust, part I. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least three other dramatic works by Goethe.Ebner-Eschenbach 

• (5) Schiller, with a special study of Wallenstein. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Schiller's development as a dramatist.Rilke 

• (6) Hölderlin, with a special study of Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, ed. Gerhard Kurz and Wolfgang Braungart, Reihe Reclam, the poetry 1798–1806.Kafka 

• (7) Kleist, with a special study of Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Kleist's plays and prose works.Brecht 

• (8) Hoffmann,Ingeborg with a special study of Der Sandmann and Der goldne Topf. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least one of the novels and a representative selection of the shorter fiction.Bachmann 

• (9) Heine, with a special study of Atta Troll and Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Heine's poetry and prose, the latter to include the Reisebilder.

• (10) Rilke, with a special study of  Neue Gedichte. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Rilke's other writings.

• (11) Thomas Mann, with a special study of  Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least one of the novels and a representative selection of the shorter fiction.

• (12) Kafka, with a special study of Der Proceβ: Roman in der Fassung der Handschrift, ed. Malcolm Pasley (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, No. 114123). Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Kafka's other fiction.

• (13) Brecht, with a special study of Leben des Galilei. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Brecht's development as dramatist and poet.

• (14) Grass, with a special study of Die Blechtrommel. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Grass's prose fiction.

• (15) Christa Wolf, with a special study of Nachdenken über Christa T. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Christa Wolf's prose works.

• (16) W. G. Sebald, with special study of Austerlitz. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Sebald’s other works.

• (17) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with special study of the film Katzelmacher. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Fassbinder’s other films and plays.

• (18) Elfriede Jelinek, with special study of Die Klavierspielerin. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Jelinek’s other works. ] 

• [For students starting from MT 2016 and before MT 2017:

• (1) Luther, with a special study of Von der Freyheyt eyniβ Christenmenschen (http://luther.chadwyck.co.uk).

• (2) Goethe as dramatist, with a special study of Faust, part I. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least three other dramatic works by Goethe.

• (3) Schiller, with a special study of Wallenstein. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Schiller's development as a dramatist.

• (4) Hölderlin, with a special study of Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, ed. Gerhard Kurz and Wolfgang Braungart, Reihe Reclam, the poetry 1798–1806.

• (5) Kleist, with a special study of Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Kleist's plays and prose works.

• (6) Hoffmann, with a special study of Der Sandmann and Der goldne Topf. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least one of the novels and a representative selection of the shorter fiction.

• (7) Heine, with a special study of Atta Troll and Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Heine's poetry and prose, the latter to include the Reisebilder.

• (8) Rilke, with a special study of  Neue Gedichte. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Rilke's other writings.

• (9) Thomas Mann, with a special study of  Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least one of the novels and a representative selection of the shorter fiction.

• (10) Kafka,The withBerlin a special study of Der Proceβ: Roman in der Fassung der Handschrift, ed. Malcolm Pasley (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, No. 114123). Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Kafka's other fiction.

• (11) Brecht, with a special study of Leben des Galilei. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Brecht's development as dramatist and poet.

• (12) Grass, with a special study of Die Blechtrommel. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Grass's prose fiction.

• (13) Christa Wolf, with a special study of Nachdenken über Christa T. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Christa Wolf's prose works.

• (14) W. G. Sebald, with special study of Austerlitz. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Sebald’s other works.

• (15) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with special study of the film Katzelmacher. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Fassbinder’s other films and plays.

• (16) Elfriede Jelinek, with special study of Die Klavierspielerin. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Jelinek’s other works. ]

• [For students starting from MT 2017:

• (1) Luther, with a special study of Von der Freyheyt eyniβ Christenmenschen (http://luther.chadwyck.co.uk).

• (2) Schiller, with a special study of Wallenstein. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Schiller's development as a dramatist.

• (3) Hölderlin, with a special study of Friedrich Hölderlin, Gedichte, ed. Gerhard Kurz and Wolfgang Braungart, Reihe Reclam, the poetry 1798–1806.

• (4) Kleist, with a special study of Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Kleist's plays and prose works.

• (5) Hoffmann, with a special study of Die Elixiere des Teufels. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Hoffmann's other writings.

• (6) Heine, with a special study of Atta Troll and Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Heine's poetry and prose, the latter to include the Reisebilder.

• (7) Rilke, with a special study of  Neue Gedichte (both parts). Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Rilke's other writings.

• (8) Thomas Mann, with a special study of  Buddenbrooks. Candidates will further be expected to have studied at least one more of the novels and a representative selection of the shorter fiction.

• (9) Kafka, with a special study of Der Proceβ: Roman in der Fassung der Handschrift, ed. Malcolm Pasley (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, No. 114123). Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Kafka's other fiction.

• (10) Brecht, with a special study of Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Brecht's development as dramatist and poet.

• (11) Grass, with a special study of Die Blechtrommel. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Grass's prose fiction.

• (12) Christa Wolf, with a special study of Kassandra and Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung: Kassandra. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Christa Wolf's prose works.

• (13) Thomas Bernhard, with a special study of Alte Meister. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Bernhard’s plays and fiction.

• (14) Elfriede Jelinek, with special study of Die Klavierspielerin. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Jelinek’s other works.

• (15) Herta Müller, with a special study of Herztier. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Müller’s other works.

• (16) Christian Petzold, with a special study of Jerichow. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Petzold’s other works. ]School 

Note. The paper will contain questions of a general nature, and questions on specific texts. Candidates will not be allowed to make any one text the principal subject of more than one answer.

Italian:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Petrarch, with a special study of the Canzoniere, Nos. 1-12; 16-24; 30; 34-7; 50-4; 60-2; 70; 72; 77; 80-1; 90-2; 102; 119; 125-6; 128-9; 132-4; 136; 142; 145; 148; 159-60; 164; 197; 211; 219; 263-4; 268; 272; 279-80; 287-92; 302-4; 310-11; 315; 327; 353; 359-60; 364-6. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Petrarch's other Italian poems and of works originally written in Latin.

• (2) Boccaccio, with a special study of the Decameron, I. 1-3; II, 2, 5, 10; III, 2; IV, 1, 2, 5, 7, 9; V, 6, 8, 9; VI, 1, 9, 10; VII, 4, 9; VIII, 3, 8; IX, 1, 2; X, 2, 9, 10. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of other parts of the Decameron and of other works by Boccaccio.

• (3) Machiavelli, with a special study of Il Principe. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Machiavelli's other works, including I discorsi and La mandragola.

• (4) Ariosto, with a special study of Orlando Furioso, cantos I-XIII.45; XVIII.146-XXIV; XXVIII-XXX; XXXIV; XLV-XLVI. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other parts of the Orlando Furioso and a selection of the Satire.

• (5) Tasso, with a special study of Gerusalemme Liberata, cantos I–VII, XI–XVI; XIX–XX, and Aminta. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other parts of the Gerusalemme Liberata.

Spanish:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Garcilaso de la Vega, Obra poética y textos en prosa (ed. B. Morros, Crítica) (not including the Latin poetry and the prose texts).

• (2) Cervantes, with a special study of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. (Passages for commentary will be set from the Second Part only.)

• (3) Góóngora, with a special study of Soledad primera (from Soledades, ed. R. Jammes, Castalia), Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (ed. J. Ponce Cárdenas, Cátedra), Sonnets (in Poems of Góngora, ed. R. O. Jones, pp. 87-92). Candidates will be expected to have read Soledad segunda, but passages for commentary will not be set from it.

• (4) Quevedo, with a special study of ‘Infierno’, ‘El mundo por de dentro’, ‘Sueño de la muerte’, in Sueños y discursos (ed. J. O. Crosby, Castalia); La cuna y la sepultura, and España defendida (Preliminaries and Chapter 5 only), in Obras completas, I: Prosa (ed. F. Buendía, Aguilar); Poesía varia (ed. J. O. Crosby, Cátedra), nos. 16-30, 35-53, 71-83, 87-106, 128-33, 160-1; El buscón (ed. D. Ynduráin, Cátedra).

• (5) Calderóón, with a special study of La vida es sueño 

• (ed. C. Morón, Cátedra6) (candidatesSor will be expected to have read the auto of the same name, but passages for commentary will be not be set from it). El pintor de su deshonra (ed. Ruiz Lagos, Colección Aula Magna), El mágico prodigioso, and El Alcalde de Zalamea (both Clásicos castellanos), El gran teatro del mundo (ed. B. W. Wardropper, Cátedra), El alcalde de Zalamea (ed. J. Ma. Díez Borque, Castalia), and El gran teatro del mundo (ed. E. Frutos Cortés, Cátedra).Juana

Portuguese:

Any two of the following:

• (1) GilFernão VicenteMendes Pinto, with a special study of Auto da Alma, Auto da Feira, Farsa de Inês Pereira, Farsa dos Almocreves, O Triunfo do Inverno, Dom Duardos.Peregrinação 

•  (2) JoãoAntónio de BarrosVieira, with a special study of Rópica Pnefma (ed. I. S. Révah, Lisbon, 1955) and Décadas, vol. I (ed. A. Baião, Sá da Costa, Lisbon, 1945).

• (3) CamõSermões, with a special study of Os Lusíadas (ed. F. Pierce) and Líricas (ed. Rodrigues Lapa, 1970 or later).

• (4) Francisco Manuel de Melo, with a special study of Epanáfora política, Relógios falantes, Hospital das Letras, Carta de Guía de Casados, O Fidalgo Aprendiz. 

•  (53) AntónioViolante Ferreirado Céu, BristoRimas Várias 

•  (4) Gregório de Matos, Cioso, Poemas Lusitanosescolhidos 

• Candidates (includingmust Aalso Castro)demonstrate knowledge of theory from the Portuguese-speaking world. 

Russian:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Pushkin, with a special study of Tsygany, Evgeny Onegin, Povesti Belkina, Selected lyrics (copies of the list of prescribed poems are available from the Slavonic Library, 47 Wellington Square).

• (2) Gogol, with a special study of Mirgorod, (excluding Taras Bul'ba) Shinel', Zapiski sumasshedshego, Nevsky Prospekt, Portret, Nos, Mertvye dushi Part I, Revizor.

• (3) Mandel'shtam. Selected lyrics (copies of the prescribed poems are available from the Slavonic Library, 47 Wellington Square). Candidates will also be expected to have read a representative selection of Mandel'shtam's artistic prose and articles on literary topics.

• (4) Mayakovsky, with a special study of Oblako v shtanakh, Pro eto, Lyublyu, Klop, and selected lyrics (copies of the prescribed poems are available from the Slavonic Library, 47 Wellington Square). Candidates will also be expected to have read Kak delat' stikhi and a representative selection of Mayakovsky's other works.

  Tsvetaeva

• (5) Bulgakov, with a special study of Beelaya gvardiya, Sobach'e serdtse, Beg,Master i Margarita.

Medieval and Modern Greek:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Digenis Akritis: the Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (ed. E. M. Jeffreys).

• (2) The vernacular verse romances.

• (3) Cretan drama, with a special study of Chortatsis' Erophile, Katzourbos, and Panoria (ed. R. Bancroft-Marcus).

• (4) Erotokritos.

• (5) Greek oral poetry.

Czech (with Slovak):

Any threetwo offrom the following: 

•  (1) Czech Baroque Comenius, with a special study of Labyrint světa a ráj srdce. 

•  (2) Early Slovak Realist Fiction Hrabal, with a special study of Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále. 

•  (3) Vitĕzslav Nezval Hodrová, with a special study of Podobojí. 

•  (4) Ján Johanides Holan, with a special study of Terezka Planetová. 

•  (5) Daniela Hodrová Johanides, with a special study of Marek koniar a uhorský pápež. 

•  (6) Jana Huráňov Mitana, with a special study of the volume Prievan.

Candidates will be required to answer questions on each of their three authors, including one commentary. 

Celtic:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Gwaith Guto'r Glyn, ed. I. Williams and J. Llywelyn Williams (Cardiff, 1939).

• (2) Gwaith Tudur Aled, ed. T. Gwynn Jones (Cardiff, 1926).

• (3) Gwaith Iorwerth Fynglwyd, ed. H. Ll. Jones and E. I. Rowlands (Cardiff, 1973).

• (4) Gramadegau'r Penceirddiaid, ed. G. J. Williams and E. J. Jones (Cardiff, 1934), Texts A and C (pp. 1-18, 39-58).

• (5) Acallam na Senóórach (in the selection ed. M. Dillon, Stories from the Acallam [Dublin, 1970]).

• (6) Caithrééim Cellaig, ed. K. Mulchrone, 2nd edn. (Dublin, 1971).

• (7) Buile Shuibne, ed. J. G. O'Keefe (Dublin, 1931).

• (8) Tóóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghrááinne, ed. N. Ní Sheaghdha, Irish Texts Society 48 (Dublin, 1967).

• (9) Dáánta Gráádha, ed. T. F. O'Rahilly, 2nd edn. (Cork: Cork University Press, 1926).

⁷4XI. Early Modern Literary Texts or GoetheGerman Thought (German only) or

7Modern Prescribed Authors (ii): or Modern Prescribed Texts (Portuguese only)

Passages for explanation and comment will be taken from the works prescribed for special study ,which will be specified in the relevant modern language's FHS course handbook.  Candidates will be expected to have read works by their chosen authors other than those prescribed for special study.

French:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Stendhal, with a special study of Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.

• (2) Baudelaire, with a special study of Les Fleurs du Mal and the Petits Poèmes en prose.

• (3) Flaubert, with a special study of Madame Bovary, Trois Contes, and L'Éducation sentimentale.

• (4) Mallarmé, with a special study of Poésies (edition Deman), ed. Bertrand Marchal (Gallimard, Collection Poésie, 1992, pp. 1-74), and Igitur, Divagations, Un coup de dés, ed. Bertrand Marchal (Gallimard, Collection Poésie, 2003), omitting Igitur, Quelques médaillons et portraits en pied and Pages diverses.é

• (5) Gide, with a special study of L'Immoraliste, La Porte étroite, Si le grain ne meurt, and Les Faux-Monnayeurs.
  Djebar

• (6) Sartre, with a special study of La Nausée, Les Mouches, Les Séquestrés d'Altona, and Les Mots. Beckett

• (7) Duras, with a special study of Un barrage contre le Pacifique, Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, L'Amant, and Hiroshima, mon amour (film script).

• (8) Barthes, with a special study of L’Empire des signes, Le Plaisir du texte, Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes, and La Chambre claire.

German:

Set Goethe.texts Candidatesfor study will be required to read a selection of Goethe’s worksspecified in morethe thanGerman oneFHS genre.course Candidates for this paper may not offer Goethe as dramatist as one of their authors on Paper Xhandbook.

Italian:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Manzoni, with a special study of I promessi sposi. Candidates will further be expected to have studied Manzoni's tragedies and a selection of his other works.

• (2) Leopardi,

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• (3) with a special study of I Canti. Candidates will further be expected to have studied the Operette morali and a selection of Leopardi's other writings.Verga

• (34) D'Annunzio, with a special study of Alcyone. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a selection of D'Annunzio's other works in verse and prose.Pirandello

• (45) Verga, with a special study of I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a selection of Verga's other fiction.Montale

• (56) Pirandello, with a special study of Il fu Mattia Pascal, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, and I giganti della montagna. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Pirandello's drama and prose work.Calvino

• (67) Montale, with a special study of ‘Ossi di seppia’ in Ossi di seppia, Section IV of Le occasioni, ‘Finisterre’ in La bufera e altro and ‘Xenia I’ in Satura. Candidates will further be expected to have studied a representative selection of Montale's other poems.Morante

• (78) Calvino, with a special study of Il cavaliere inesistente and Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore. Candidates will further be expected to have studied other works representative of Calvino's development as a writer.

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Spanish:

Any two of the following:

• (1) Péérez Galdóós, with a special study of Juan Martín el Empecinado, El amigo Manso, Miau, Nazarín. 

• (2) Leopoldo Alas, with a special study of La Regenta (ed. Gonzalo Sobejano, Clásicos Castalia), and Cuentos escogidos (ed. G. G. Brown, Oxford, 1964).Valle-Inclán

• (3)   Valle-Inclán, withFederico García special study of the Sonatas; Divinas palabras; Luces de Bohemia; Los cuernos de don Friolera (ed. A. Zamora Vicente, Clásicos castellanos); Tirano Banderas (ed. A. Zamora Vicente).Lorca

• (4)   Federico GarcíaJavier Lorca, with a special study of Canciones (ed. M. Hernández); Mariana Pineda; Bodas de sangre, El público, (ed. C.M. Millán). Poeta en Nueva York (ed. M.C. Millán).Marías

• (5) Neruda, with a special study of Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (ed. Montes, Clásicos Castalia, Madrid, 1987); Canto general (I, II, XIV, XV); Memorial de Isla Negra (I, IV) (Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1976); Pablo Neruda : A Basic Anthology (ed. Pring-Mill, Dolphin, Oxford, 1975), pp. 8-42 and 80-109, and those poems included in the Basic Anthology from the following collections: Estravagario, Plenos poderes, Jardín de invierno, and El mar y las campanas.

• (6) Borges, with a special study of Ficciones (ed. either Emecé or Alianza-Emecé); El aleph; El informe de Brodie; Obra poética 1923-1976 (ed. Alianza-Emecé, sections entitled El hacedor and El otro, el mismo).

  (7) Julio Cortázar, with a special study of Bestiario and Rayuela.

• (7) Julio Cortázar

• (8) Gabriel Garcíía Máárquez,

• (9) withMario aVargas specialLlosa

• (10) studyRubén of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba and Cien años de soledad.  Darío

Portuguese:

Any twoFour of the following prescribed texts. Candidates must show knowledge of AT LEAST ONE text from EACH list below. Candidates must also demonstrate knowledge of theory from the Portuguese-speaking world.

African list:

• (1) Mia Couto, O último voo do flamingo

  (1) Almeida Garrett, with a special study of Frei Luís de Sousa, O Arco de Sant' Ana, Viagens na Minha Terra, Folhas Caídas.

• (2) Djina EçaSurrealismo deno QueirósQuotidiano

  (3) Pepetela, with a special study of O Crime do Padre Amaro, Os Maias, and A Cidadegloriosa família 

  (4) Odete Semedo, Entre o ser e aso Serrasamar .

Brazilian list:

• (1) Mário de Andrade, Macunaíma and Modernist manifestos

  (2) Adolfo Caminha O Bom Crioulo  

  (3) MachadoConceição Evaristo, Ponciá Vicêncio and Poemas da Recordação 

  (4) Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela

  Portuguese list:

  (1) Djaimilia Pereira de AssisAlmeida, with a special study of Memórias póstumas de Brás CubasLuanda, DomLisboa, Casmurro, and Quincas Borba.Paraíso

• (2) Lídia Jorge, A costa dos murmúrios

  (43) Fernando Pessoa, with a special study of Obras completas, vol. I (Ática) Mensagem and PoesiaModernist manifestos

  (4) Eça de Alvaro de Campos.

• (5) Graciliano RamosQueirós, withOs a special study of Caetés.Maias

• (6) Clarice Lispector, with a special study of Perto do Coração Selvagem, A Paixão segundo G. H., A Hora da Estrela.

• (7) Mia Couto, with special study of Vozes anoitecidas, Terra sonãmbula, A varanda do frangipani.

  (8) Pepetela, with special reference to Yaka, Predadores, and A Gloriosa Família.