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University Gazette, 4 June 2009: Examinations and
Boards
Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern LanguagesSpecial Subjects in the Honour School of Modern Languages and the related Joint Honour SchoolsSpecial Subjects, 2010The Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern European Languages gives notice, under the provisions of the regulations in Examination Regulations, that the following Special Subjects in French and in German will be available for examination in Trinity Term 2010. Certain subjects are marked with a language identifier. The bold numbers are those used by the Examination Schools to identify papers. The method of assessment for each special subject is also shown: a key to the letters is given at the end of this list. (Note: The Russian/Linguistic Subject 'The History of a Language' formerly number 2149 has been divided into separate papers, each language bearing its own number.) 2195 European cinema. An introduction to
some of the major movements and landmarks in the evolution of
European cinema. In the work submitted for assessment,
candidates will be expected to show evidence of having worked
on film study and analysis. 2011
1
Modern literary theory.
Candidates will be expected to be familiar with major
theories in this field since 1918. 2012 (F, S, I, P, L) Romance Philology
and Linguistics. (F) Late Medieval Responses to Le Roman de
la rose. [PM]. 2040 (F) Old Occitan. Prescribed
text: F.R. Hamlin, P.T. Ricketts, J. Hathaway,
Introduction à l'étude de l'ancien
provençal, Geneva 1967 and 1985, with
particular reference to nos. 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 17, 18, 20, 21,
22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48,
49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 65,70, from which passages
will be set for translation. In addition, candidates may
answer questions on either literary or linguistic topics or
both. [PM] 2034 (F) The Old French epic.
[PM] 2014 (F) The twelfth-
and-thirteenth-century Grail Romances.
[PM] 2015 (F) French historical
writing to 1515. [PM] 2016 (F) French poetry of the
mid-sixteenth century. [PM] 2017 (F) Dramatic theory and
practice in France 1605–60. [PM] 2019 (F) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
[PM] 2035 (F) French satire from
Rabelais to Beaumarchais. [PM] 2020 (F) Honoré de
Balzac. 2021 (F) French poetry
1870–1918. 2022 (F) French literature and
Modern War. 2023 (F) Marcel Proust. 2024 (F) French Poetry from
Surrealism to the Present. 2026 (F) Literature and the
visual arts. 2027 (F) French women
writers. 2038 (F) Twentieth-century
French Autobiographical Writing. 2039 (F) Francophone literature:
Colonial and Post-colonial perspectives. 2028 (F)
Advanced French
Translation: theory and practice)
German special subjects for examination from 20102195 European cinema. An introduction to
some of the major movements and landmarks in the evolution of
European cinema. In the work submitted for assessment,
candidates will be expected to show evidence of having worked
on film study and analysis. 2036 (G) Old Norse. Candidates
will be expected to have made a special study of F. Ranke and
D. Hofmann, Altnordisches Elementarbuch
(Sammlung Göschen No. 1115), pp. 80–135.
Candidates will also be expected to have read the
Völsungasaga and related material from the
Poetic Edda. Written work must show knowledge of
the texts in the original language.
[PM]) 2037 (G, L) Old High German, with
either Gothic or Old Saxon
or Old English or Old Frisian.
Prescribed texts: Gothic, Gospel according to St Mark,
chapters 1–9; Old Saxon, Heliand, II.
4025–5038; Old English, Beowulf, II;
1–1049. Old Frisian, texts I–IX, XII–XIV,
XVI, XVII from Rolf Bremmer's Introduction to Old
Frisian and The Seventeen Statutes and
The Twenty Four Landlaws (Buma 1961, pp.
93–107). [PM]) 2041 (G) Walther von der
Vogelweide and the Origins of the German Love Lyric.
[PM] 2042 (G (Gottfried's Tristan
and Medieval German Court Society. [PM] 2071 (G) Mechthild von Magdeburg
and women's writing in German 1150–1300.
[PM] 2044 (G) Women writers of the
early modern period.) 2045 (G) Eighteenth-century
German aesthetics from Baumgarten to Schiller. 2072 (G) Weimar Classicism
1794–1805. 2047 (G) The
Bildungsroman. 2049 (G) Nietzsche and his
impact. 2050 (G) The poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan George, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Candidates will be examined on the poetry of two of these authors and will be expected to have read the works listed in any two of the sections below. (a) Hofmannsthal: All the lyric poems in Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gedichte. Dramen I (1891–1898), ed. Bernd Schoeller with Rudof Hirsch [= volume 1 of the Gesammelte Werke in 10 Einzelbänden] (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1979 or later reprints). (b) George: Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, Algabal; Das Jahr der Seele; Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod mit einem Vorspiel; the sections 'Zeitgedichte', 'Gestalten', 'Gezeiten', and 'Maximin' from Der siebente Ring; Das neue Reich omitting the section 'Sprüche'. (c) (Rilke: Das Stunden-Buch;
Neue Gedichte (both parts); Requiem
für eine Freundin; Requiem für Wolf
Graf von Kalckreuth; Die Sonette an Orpheus;
Duineser Elegien. 2073 (G) Modernist prose fiction
1898–1933. 2079 (G) Expressionism in German
literature and the visual arts. (G) Cinema in a Cultural Context: German Film
1930–70. 2056 (G) German poetry from
1945. Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge
of the field, and a detailed knowledge of works written by
some of the key figures. 2070 (G) Narrative Identities in
the German Novel since 1945. Participants will be expected to
demonstrate a general knowledge of the field and to have read
a range of German-language novels from the post-1945 era.
Each portfolio shall consist of two essays, only one of which
may be on a single text. 2080 (G (Literature in the GDR. 2081 (G) Advanced Translation:
Theory and Practice. The course will be taught in Hilary Term
of the final year. The maximum number of participants in the
seminar will be eight, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Students should apply by e-mail to katrin.kohl@jesus.ox.ac.uk
and charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk.
Applications will be accepted from Monday, first week in the
Trinity Term of the student's second year until the course is
full, and at the latest on Monday, first week in the
Michaelmas Term of the student's final year. 2196 (G) Contemporary German
Literature. Candidates will be expected to have a general
knowledge of writing in German from the last decade and to
have read a range of texts from the same period. Each
portfolio will consist of two essays, only one of which may
be on a single text. (G) Drama and theatre since 1960. Candidates will
study some of the principal dramatic texts and writings on
the theatre by a selection of the following: Peter Weiss,
Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Heiner Müller, Elfriede
Jelinek, and others. There will also be opportunities to
write about the practice and politics of the theatre. Russian and Linguistics Special Subjects for examination from 20102150 (R, L) The structure and history of
Bulgarian/Macedonian. [PM] 2151 (R, L) The structure and history of
Czech. [PM] 2153 (R, L) The structure and history of
Polish. [PM] 2154 (R, L) The structure and history of
Serbian/Croatian. [PM] 2155 (R, L) The structure and history of
Slovak. [PM] 2156 (R, L) The structure and history of
Slovene. [PM] 2157 (R, L) The structure and history of
Sorbian. [PM] 2158 (R, L) The structure and history of
Ukrainian. [PM] Special Subjects, 2011The Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages gives notice, under the provisions of the regulations in Examination Regulations, that the following Special Subjects will be available for examination in Trinity Term 2011. Certain subjects are marked with a language identifier. The bold numbers are those used by the Examination Schools to identify papers. The method of assessment for each special subject is also shown: a key to the letters is given at the end of this list. Depending on the availability of teaching resources, not all Special Subjects will be available to all candidates in every year. Note: Special Subjects available for French will be published in the Trinity Term preceding the year of the Final Examination. 2195 European cinema. An introduction to
some of the major movements and landmarks in the evolution of
European cinema. In the work submitted for assessment,
candidates will be expected to show evidence of having worked
on film study and analysis. 2011
1
Modern literary theory.
Candidates will be expected to be familiar with major
theories in this field since 1918. 2030 (L) Syntax. 2009 (L) Semantics. 2031 (L) Phonetics and
Phonology. 2032 (L) Sociolinguistics. 2033 (L) Translation Theory. 2001 (L) Psycholinguistics. 2198 (L) Linguistic Project. In
the work submitted for assessment, candidates should document
a piece of original research into some aspect of a particular
dialect, language, or variety. 2199 (L) Language Change and
Historical Linguistics. 2012 (I, L, P, S) Romance philology and
linguistics. Candidates will be expected to show a detailed
knowledge of the methods of comparative Romance linguistics
and to illustrate their answers with examples from more than
one Romance language. Texts for linguistic commentary in
'Vulgar Latin' (G. Rohlfs, Sermo vulgaris
latinus, Tübingen, 1969: II, VII, XIII, XX, XXIX,
XXXIV) and unseen passages from 'lesser known' Romance
varieties (Sardinian, Romanian, Romansch and others) will
also be set each year. 2036 (G) Old Norse. Candidates
will be expected to have made a special study of F. Ranke and
D. Hofmann, Altnordisches Elementarbuch
(Sammlung Göschen No. 1115), pp. 80–135.
Candidates will also be expected to have read the
Völsungasaga and related material from the
Poetic Edda. Written work must show knowledge of
the texts in the original language. [PM] 2037 (G, L) Old High German, with
either Gothic or Old Saxon
or Old English or Old Frisian.
Prescribed texts: Gothic, Gospel according to St Mark,
chapters 1–9; Old Saxon, Heliand, II.
4025–5038; Old English, Beowulf, II;
1–1049. Old Frisian, texts I–IX, XII–XIV,
XVI, XVII from Rolf Bremmer's Introduction to Old
Frisian and The Seventeen Statutes and
The Twenty Four Landlaws (Buma 1961, pp.
93–107). [PM] 2041 (G) Walther von der
Vogelweide and the Origins of the German Love Lyric.
[PM] 2042 (G) Gottfried's
Tristan and Medieval German Court Society.
[PM] 2071 (G) Mechthild von Magdeburg
and women's writing in German 1150–1300.
[PM] 2044 (G) Women writers of the
early modern period. 2045 (G) Eighteenth-century
German aesthetics from Baumgarten to Schiller. 2072 (G) Weimar Classicism
1794–1805. 2047 (G) The
Bildungsroman. 2049 (G) Nietzsche and his
impact. 2050 (G) The poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan George, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Candidates will be examined on the poetry of two of these authors and will be expected to have read the works listed in any two of the sections below. (a) Hofmannsthal: All the lyric poems in Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gedichte. Dramen I (1891–1898), ed. Bernd Schoeller with Rudof Hirsch [= volume 1 of the Gesammelte Werke in 10 Einzelbänden] (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1979 or later reprints). (b) George: Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, Algabal; Das Jahr der Seele; Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod mit einem Vorspiel; the sections 'Zeitgedichte', 'Gestalten', 'Gezeiten', and 'Maximin' from Der siebente Ring; Das neue Reich omitting the section 'Sprüche'. (c) Rilke: Das Stunden-Buch;
Neue Gedichte (both parts); Requiem
für eine Freundin; Requiem für Wolf
Graf von Kalckreuth; Die Sonette an Orpheus;
Duineser Elegien. 2073 (G) Modernist prose fiction
1898–1933. 2079 (G) Expressionism in German
literature and the visual arts. 2056 (G) German poetry from
1945. Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge
of the field, and a detailed knowledge of works written by
some of the key figures. 2070 (G) Narrative Identities in
the German Novel since 1945. Participants will be expected to
demonstrate a general knowledge of the field and to have read
a range of German-language novels from the post-1945 era.
Each portfolio shall consist of two essays, only one of which
may be on a single text. 2080 (G) Literature in the
GDR. 2081 (G) Advanced Translation:
Theory and Practice. The course will be taught in Hilary Term
of the final year. The maximum number of participants in the
seminar will be eight, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Students should apply by e-mail to katrin.kohl@jesus.ox.ac.uk
and charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk.
Applications will be accepted from Monday, first week in the
Trinity Term of the student's second year until the course is
full, and at the latest on Monday, first week in the
Michaelmas Term of the student's final year. 2196 (G) Contemporary German
Literature. Candidates will be expected to have a general
knowledge of writing in German from the last decade and to
have read a range of texts from the same period. Each
portfolio will consist of two essays, only one of which may
be on a single text. (G) Drama and theatre since 1960. Candidates will
study some of the principal dramatic texts and writings on
the theatre by a selection of the following: Peter Weiss,
Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Heiner Müller, Elfriede
Jelinek, and others. There will also be opportunities to
write about the practice and politics of the theatre. (G) Cinema in Cultural Context: German Film
1930–70. 2083 (I) Italian Lyric Poetry of the
Thirteenth Century. This paper explores the birth and the
evolution of Italian poetry from the Scuola
Siciliana to the Tuscan poets, Dante and the
Stilnovisti as well as the poeti giocosi.
Particular attention is given to the specificity and the
complexity of the poetic language through which this literary
tradition constantly renews itself. Topics include the
relationship between courtly and religious versions of love
and desire, poetry and philosophy, politics and exile. 2084 (I) Dante's minor works. This paper
explores Dante's intellectual and literary journey in his
works other than the Divine Comedy. Topics
include Dante's meditation on desire and courtly love, his
linguistic, poetic and political theories, as well as the
relationship between poetry and philosophy, literature and
exile. Students can choose among Fiore,
Rime, Vita nova,
Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia,
Epistles, and Monarchia. 2091 (I) Italian Culture during the
Fascist period. To what extent was Italian culture shaped by
Mussolini's dictatorship during the inter-war years? In order
to address this issue, you can choose to deepen your
knowledge of one particular field or attempt an analysis of a
range of cultural media (literary, cinematic, journalistic,
etc). You can study specific movements—such as
Futurism, the novecentisti, the
strapesani, etc.—or specific themes such
as censorship, propaganda, state-sponsored initiatives and,
last but certainly not the least, anti-Fascist culture. 2085 (I, L) 'Questione della lingua'.
Candidates will be expected to have read: Dante, De
vulgari eloquentia; Bembo, Prose della volgar
lingua; Manzoni, Scritti sulla
lingua. 2086 (I) Women writers of the Italian
Renaissance. A change in the cultural climate at the end of
the fifteenth century combined with the rise of the printing
industry, which required an ever increasing number of
readers, meant that women's education was no longer viewed
with scorn but, for the first time in Europe, actively
encouraged. This is the reason why the Italian Renaissance
saw an unprecedented flourishing of women writers. Veronica
Gambara, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Chiara Matraini,
Gaspara Stampa, Isabella di Morra, Veronica Franco and
Moderata Fonte are just a few of the better known writers and
poets active during the period 1500–1600, but there are
many others still awaiting to be rediscovered. All can be
studied individually, comparatively, or thematically,
including the questione della donna which, in
trying to define women's role in society, gave rise to a much
debated and often fiercely controversial topic in Renaissance
Italy. 2088 (I) The works of Carlo Emilio Gadda.
Gadda is one of the most fascinating and complex Italian
writers of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre spans a wide
variety of styles (from the macaronic to the lyrical) and
genres (from the novel to the elzeviro,
including poems, private diaries, technical articles,
philosophical reflections, radiophonic pieces, fables,
critical essays and psycho-political pamphlets). This course
will aim at providing the conceptual basis for the critical
interpretation of Gadda's literary production, and in
particular of his two major novels (La cognizione del
dolore and Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via
Merulana); some of his other works will also be
studied. 2092 (I) Narratives of national identity
in postwar Italy. This option allows you to study the
interaction between fictional production (mainly literary
and/or cinematic) and the construction of models of national
identity. This was a particularly sensitive issue in the
early postwar years when Italians had to rebuild a sense of
nationhood after the collapse of Fascism and the humiliation
of the Second World War. Moreover, themes such as the
regional fragmentation of the peninsula—cultural as
well as economic—have accompanied the work of Italian
artists throughout the postwar years and are much alive
today. 2096 (I) Sicilian literature 1945 to the
present day. This paper allows you to study the extraordinary
contribution to Italian fiction made by Sicilian writers from
the Second World War to the present day. The novels range
widely in content and style: from two comic works written in
the 1940s and 1950s (V. Brancati, Il
bell'Antonio (1949) and Paolo il caldo
(1955)), to the important best-seller Tomasi di Lampedusa's
Il gattopardo (1958), key works about society by
Sciascia (Il giorno della civetta (1961),
A ciascuno il suo (1966) and L'affaire
Moro (1978)), and more recent fictions by Bufalino
(Diceria dell'untore (1981), and Le
menzogne della notte (1988)). 2097 (I) Italian women writers 1945 to
the present day. Writing by women is studied against the
historical context of the changing role of women in the
political sphere, in society and within literary genres.
Students are asked to consider issues connected with gender
and creativity, developments in perceptions and expectations
of writing by women, as well as the merits of the texts
themselves as literature. Any writers of suitable merit can
be studied and independent contemporary choices are
encouraged, but a core selection would include Anna Banti,
Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Paola
Capriolo and Francesca Duranti. 2098 (I) Italian poetry from 1956 to the
present day. Montale's collection La bufera e
altro (1956) is universally considered as a crucial
watershed for Italian poetry of the Novecento. In this book,
the sense of an ending—of the poetry that the generation of
Montale and Ungaretti wrote, its language, its formal
innovations, as well as its concerns, and its sense of its
role within Italian cultural and political history—combines
with a strong impetus towards the future, addressing the
historical present, and the role of the poet within it, in a
profoundly renewed and problematic fashion. La
Bufera paves the way for the work of all the major
protagonists of the second half of the century, from Andrea
Zanzotto to Vittorio Sereni, Giorgio Caproni and Amelia
Rosselli. The option will give students the opportunity to
read (as well as La bufera itself) some of the
major collections that have shaped the poetic imaginary of
the secondo novecento: Zanzotto's La
beltà, Sereni's Strumenti umani,
Caproni's Il seme del piangere, and Rosselli's
Variazioni belliche. 2103 (S) Spanish drama before Lope de
Vega. Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the
works of: Juan del Encina, Lucas Fernández, Lope de
Rueda, Juan de la Cueva, Bartolomé de Torres Naharro,
Diego Sánchez de Badajoz, Juan de Timoneda, Miguel
Venegas, Miguel de Cervantes, and the Spanish works of Gil
Vicente. Candidates will be expected to have read the
Portuguese and bilingual texts of Gil Vicente, but passages
for comment, which will not be compulsory, will not be set
from these.. [PM] 2105 (S) The discovery and conquest of
Mexico and the Antilles. Candidates will be expected to have
read: Cristóbal Colón, Textos y
documentos completos (ed. Consuelo Varela),
Nuevas cartas (ed. Juan Gil, Madrid: Alianza
Universidad, 1984); Hernán Cortés, Cartas
de relación de la conquista de Méjico
(ed. A. Delgado Gómez, Castalia, Madrid), Letters two
and three, pp. 159–453; Bernal Díaz del
Castillo, Historia de la Conquista de la Nueva
España (Porrúa, Mexico, 1960), vol. i,
pp. 174–501 and vol. ii, pp. 1–60;
Bartolomé de las Casas, Brevísima
relación de la destrucción de las Indias
(Madrid: Cátedra, 1991); Toribio de Motolinia,
Historia de los Indios de la Nueva España
(Porrúa, Mexico, 1969), pp. 77–109; Bernardino
de Sahagún, Historia general de la Nueva
España (Porrúa, Mexico, 1956), Libros 3,
7, and 8. 2106 (S) Spanish devotional and mystical
writing 1577–88. Candidates will be expected to have
read: Santa Teresa de Jesús, Moradas del
castillo interior; Fray Luis de Granada,
Introducción del símbolo de la fe
(ed. José María Balcells, Madrid,
Cátedra, 1989), pp. 125–231; Fray Luis de
León, Rey de Dios, Esposo,
and Jesús, from De los nombres de
Cristo; San Juan de la Cruz, Llama de amor
viva (candidates will also be expected to have read
the poem), Malón de Chaide, La conversión
de la Magdalena (3 vols., ed. Félix
García, Clásicos Castellanos, Madrid, 1958),
III, 83–178, 190–219. [PM] 2108 (S) Modern Catalan literature.
Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge of
the field and a detailed knowledge of at least
three authors. Details of the authors and works
prescribed for detailed knowledge will be available in the
Modern Languages Faculty Office, 41 Wellington Square, at the
beginning of the Michaelmas Full Term of the academic year of
the examination. 2111 (S) Modern Galician literature.
Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge of
the field and a detailed knowledge of at least
three authors. Details of the authors and works
prescribed for detailed knowledge will be available in the
Modern Languages Faculty Office, 41 Wellington Square, at the
beginning of the Michaelmas Full Term of the academic year of
the examination. (S) Women Writers in Modern Spain. The course focuses on women's writing from the 1940s to the present. Candidates should have a knowledge of the historical and social contexts and show a detailed knowledge of the work of at least three individual authors which can also be studied comparatively or thematically. Belonging to a literary tradition which was once granted an inferior cultural and political status, these writers interrogate the values and perspectives of the dominant canon shedding new light on the cultural and social history of modern Spain. While the course is intended to underscore issues related to gender, other approaches can also be considered. (S) The Literature and Culture of al-Andalus. (S) Literature, historiography and society in Late
Medieval Spain. This Special Subject will allow students with
an interest in the literature, culture and history of the
Spanish Middle Ages to explore a large number of issues
related with how literary and historiographical texts
represent, discuss or challenge the social order in Late
Medieval Spain. Candidates will examine with special
attention the social aspects of Cancionero
poetry, prose, treatises and different varieties of
historiographical discourse. 2112 (S, L) Modern Catalan. 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. Candidates
will study the structure of Catalan as spoken and written at
the present-day (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics); an overview of the external history of the
language and the regional varieties, the current
sociolinguistic situation, standardisation and language
policy. 2113 (S, L) Modern Galician. 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. Candidates
will study the structure of Galician as spoken and written at
the present-day (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics); an overview of the external history of the
language and the regional varieties, the current
sociolinguistic situation, standardisation and language
policy. (S) Proto-Feminism and Feminism in Modern Spain. This
paper maps out the process of women's social, cultural and
political emancipation in Spain through the study of writers
such as E. Pardo Bazán, Concepción Arenal,
Carmen de Burgos, Rosa Chacel, María Zambrano, C.
Martín Gaite and Esher Tusquets, among others. Their
works have contributed to the development of feminism either
by addressing questions of women's social and political
rights or by vindicating female sexuality, modes of thinking
and ways of writing. Belonging to a literary tradition which
was once granted an inferior cultural and political status,
these writers interrogate the values and perspectives of the
dominant canon shedding new light on the cultural and social
history of modern Spain. Candidates will be expected to have
a general knowledge of the main feminist theoretical debates
and a detailed knowledge of at least three authors. 2100 (S, L) Bilingualism: Spanish and
English. Candidates will study Spanish and English in
contrast; Spanish and English in a bilingual context. Being
able to express an idea in two different verbal systems may
produce outputs that are not yielded by monolinguals. This
provides a window for the understanding of the nature of
language. This paper addresses questions like: how is
bilingual behaviour emerging from the brain? How does a child
express it as opposed to an adult? What social or individual
factors induce code-switching? We will focus on current
studies investigating the complexity of a bilingual
experience. 2114 (S, P) Latin American fiction from
1940. Candidates may limit themselves to either Spanish
American or Brazilian fiction. Candidates will be expected to
be familiar with the broad evolution of this fiction over the
period since 1940. They wil also be expected to undertake a
specialised study of at least three of the
following authors: Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo
Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Fernando del Paso, Carlos
Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimarães
Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Mario Vargas Llosa. 2130 (S, P) The Galician-Portuguese
Cancioneiros. [PM] 2131 (P) The Literature of Portuguese
Expansion in Asia. [PM] (P) Portuguese Drama in the Sixteenth Century. 2134 (P) Twentieth-century Portuguese and
Brazilian women writers. 2135 (P) The literature of
Portuguese-speaking Africa. 2136 (P) Contemporary Brazilian
Fiction. 2139 (P) Brazilian Cinema 2137 (R, L)
2
Old Church Slavonic in
relation to Common Slavonic and Russian.
[PM] 2138 (R, L) Comparative Slavonic
Philology. Candidates will be expected to show a detailed
knowledge of the methods of Comparative Slavonic Philology
and to illustrate their answers with examples from more than
one Slavonic language. [PM] 2150 (R, L) The structure and history of
Bulgarian/Macedonian. [PM] 2151 (R, L) The structure and history of
Czech. [PM] 2153 (R, L) The structure and history of
Polish. [PM] 2154 (R, L) The structure and history of
Serbian/Croatian. [PM] 2155 (R, L) The structure and history of
Slovak. [PM] 2156 (R, L) The structure and history of
Slovene. [PM] 2157 (R, L) The structure and history of
Sorbian. [PM] 2158 (R, L) The structure and history of
Ukrainian. [PM] 2160 (R) Russian Literature of the
twentieth century (1953 to the present day). 2163 (R) Russian Drama of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. 2170 (R) Russian women's writing. 2176 (Gr) The School of the Ionian
Islands 1797–1912, with special reference to the works
of Solomos, Kalvos, Laskaratos, Matesis, Valaoritis, and
Mavilis. 2177 (Gr) The New Athenian School of
Poetry 1880–1912, with special reference to the works
of Palamas, Drosinis, Gryparis, Krystallis, Malakasis, and
Hadzopoulos. 2178 (Gr) The Greek novel 1918–40,
with special reference to the works of K. Theotokis, G.
Theotokas, Karagatsis, Myrivilis, Venezis, K. Politis, and G.
N. Abbot. 2179 (Gr) Greek Women Writers. 2180 (Gr) Modern Greek Film. 2181 (Gr) Readings of Popular Culture in
twentieth-century Greece. 2184
3
Medieval Welsh tales and
romances. 2185
3
The poets of the Welsh
princes. 2186
3
The poetry of Dafydd ap
Gwilym. 2187 The Ulster Cycle of tales. 2188 The classical Irish bardic
tradition. 2189 (L) The structure and
history of the Welsh language. 2190 (L) The structure and
history of the Irish language. 2074 Medieval Hebrew prose and poetry. Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of the historical background and literary production of Jews in medieval Spain, Provence and Italy. They will be expected to undertake a specialised study of at least two of the following topics: Isaac ibn Sahula, Meshal Haqadmoni, ed. and English translation Raphael Loewe, Oxford 2004. Megillat Ahimaaz, ed. and English translation M. Saltzman, New York, 1924. Judah ibn Tibbon, Ethical Will, ed. I. Abrahams, Philadelphia 1948, vol. 1, pp. 54–99. The Gazelle, medieval Hebrew poems on God, Israel and the soul, ed. R. Scheindlin, Philadelphia, 1991. Wine, women, and death: medieval Hebrew poems on the
good life, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Philadelphia,
1986. 2075 Early twentieth-century Hebrew
literature. Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of
the work of Central and East European Hebrew writers (some of
whom settled in Palestine in the early decades of this
century) and in particular of their literary development in
the environment of Austrian, Russian, and Polish literature,
and their influence in shaping contemporary Hebrew
literature. Candidates will be expected to have read stories
by Y. H. Brenner, M. Berdyczewski and S.J. Agnon; David
Vogel's novel, Hayei nisu'im; a selection of
poetry by H. N. Bialik, Saul Tschernichovsky and Leah
Goldberg. Texts will be selected from the following works: Y.
H. Brenner, Kovetz sippurim (Sifrei Mofet); Y.
Lichtenbaum (ed), Sofreinu (Ahiasaf); T. Carmi
(ed), The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse; S.J.
Agnon, Sefer hama'asim. 2078 Modern Yiddish Literature. Sholem Aleichem: Gants Tevye der milkhiker (Vilna: B. Kletskin, 1925 or any other full Yiddish edition); Sh. A-ski (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport): Der dibek (in Di yidishe drame fun tsvantsikstn yorhundert [New York, 1977] vol. ii); Dovid Bergelson: Opgang, ed. Joseph Sherman (New York: Modern Language Association, 1999); Selections from the poetry of Dovid Hofshteyn, Peretz Markish, Leyb Kviko and Moyshe Kulbak in A shpigl oyf a shteyn (Tel-Aviv: Petez- farlag, 1964); Isaac Bashevis Singer, selected stories from Der
shpigl un andere dertseylungen (Jerusalem: Magnes
Press, 1979). (L) Yiddish Linguistics. 2191 Postwar Polish Literature. Any other subject approved by the Modern Languages board. Application must be made in writing, and with the support of the candidate's tutor, to the Chairman of the Modern Languages Board, Modern Languages Faculty Office, 41 Wellington Square, not later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination. Key to abbreviation lettersLanguage identifiersL: Linguistics F: French G: German I: Italian S: Spanish P: Portuguese R: Russian Gr: Greek Method of assessmentA: Three-hour unseen written paper. (* The examination for the Subject 'Phonetics and Phonology' will additionally involve a half-hour practical phonetic transcription exercise) B: An essay or portfolio of essays (the number in parentheses shows the number of essays required), aggregating to about 6,000 words and not exceeding 8,000 words, except that for 2198 Linguistics Project, the essay shall be about 8,000 words and not exceed 10,000 words. Completed essays should be delivered by noon on the Friday of the ninth week of Hilary Term next before the examination. C: An essay or portfolio of essays (the number in parentheses shows the number of essays required), aggregating to about 6,000 words and not exceeding 8,000 words, written as answers to an examination paper to be collected from the Examination Schools, and signed for by candidates, on the Friday of the fifth week of Hilary Term next before the examination. Completed essay(s) should be submitted by hand to the Examination Schools by noon on the Friday of the ninth week of Hilary Term in the year of the examination, together with a statement certifying that the essays are the candidate's own work and that they have not already been submitted, either wholly or substantially, for a degree in this university or elsewhere. Note: Paper XII subjects which have been designated as Pre-modern are marked [PM] after the paper description. Notes on mutual exclusions and other restrictions1 No candidate in the Honour School of English and Modern Languages may offer both the Special Subject 'Modern literary theory' and the Special Topic 'The History and Theory of Criticism' from the Honour School of English Language and Literature. 2 No candidate in the Honour School of Modern Languages or in a joint Honour School involving Modern Languages may offer both the Special Subject 'Old Church Slavonic in relation to Common Slavonic and Russian' and option (1) ('The Old Church Slavonic language') in the Linguistic Studies paper II in Russian (Russian paper V from the Honour School of Modern Languages). 3 No candidate in the Honour School of English and Modern Languages may offer the papers 'Medieval Welsh Language and Literature I or II' from the Honour School of English Language and Literature with any of the Special Subjects 'Medieval Welsh tales and romances', 'The poets of the Welsh princes' and 'The poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym'.
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