(Including Linguistics—see page 166)
Chairman of Department and Professor of English Language and Literature:
Professor G. H. RUSSELL, Ph.D. (Cantab.), M.A. (N.Z.) 150
English Robert Wallace Professor of English: Vacant
Personal Chair in English: Professor V. T. BUCKLEY, M.A.
Subjects offered by the department:
First year
English Part 1 (day and evening)
(English Part 1 may be taken in three alternative courses, English 1A (106-101), 1 B (106-111), or 1 C (106-121); throughout the follow-
ing pages the term "English part 1" or "English 1" refers to any of these three courses.)
106-102 Rhetoric (the one time is for day and evening): not avail- able in 1977.
Second year
Ordinary degree
106-201 English Part 2 (day and evening) Honours degree
106-261 English Literature Part 2 (day only) 106-262 English Language Part 2 (day only)
Third year
Ordinary degree
106-301 English Part 3 (the one time is for both day and evening) Honours degree
106-361 English Literature Part 3 (day only) 106-362 English Language Part 3 (day only) Fourth year
Honours degree
106-461 English Language & Literature Part 4 (day only)
(Combined Honours students take either the Literature [106-462]
or the Language [106-463] component.)
ORDINARY DEGREE
(Details for the honours degree are set out at the end of this section.) The major in English Is English 1, 2, 3. Rhetoric may not be taken as a part of the major, but may be taken in addition to other English subjects.
NOTE ON PRESCRIBED TEXTS
English 1: In English 1A and 1C, students should possess all the texts listed. In English 1 В, students should possess all texts asterisked; in addition, in the fiction and drama sections of the course, students will be expected to read about half the number of the books listed; so that, while students should buy some of these and start reading them as early as possible, they will be consulting with their tutors in first term about which fiction and drama they will especially need to have for tutorial study.
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Rhetoric, English 2, English 3: Ni books have been asterisked in any of these subjects, since all prescribed texts are essential books which students should possess.
ENGLISH 1A, 16, 1C
No student may take more than one of these three subjects.
In 1977 only English 1A will be available to evening students.
106-101 ENGLISH 1A
A course of one lecture and one tutorial per week, and one 1% hour class per fortnight.
SYLLABUS
An Introduction to the critical study of literature in three major forms.
A number of texts in poetry, fiction and drama are prescribed for study.
In conjunction with close attention to individual works, students will be encouraged to compare and contrast the set texts and to pursue critical issues arising in the course of their work.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Poems to be selected in class) Border Ballads Penguin
Pope Poems Either Everyman or Twickenham ed.
Keats Poems (Selection in Norton Anthology will be adequate) Eliot Collected Poems
Austen Emma Brute Jane Eyre
Dickens Great Expectations Tolstoy Anna Karenin Twain Huckleberry Finn Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Faulkner Light in August Keneally Bring Larks and Heroes Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Wakefield Second shepherds' Play, in Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, ed Cawley Everyman
Jonson Volpone
Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Measure for Measure Macbeth
Wycherley The Country Wife Chekhov Uncle Vaiva
Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
ASSESSMENT
Students are required to submit two exercises and two essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Regular tutorial attendance is expected, and students who, without the formal permission of the lecturer-in-charge, fail to submit the required exercises and essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the course. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account along with the examination. The exami- nation will consist of not more than two 3-hour papers.
106-111 ENGLISH 1B
A course of one lecture and one tutorial per week, and one 1% hour class per fortnight.
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A study of selected poetry, novels and plays. The course aims to combine a close study of a number of important works (marked •) with the range and freedom to follow up particular interests. Students will be encour- aged, as the year goes on, to compare and contrast the works they read and study. For this purpose, there will be a good deal of cross-reference between lectures and discussion classes, and there will be room to expand the course by including other works as students and tutors think appropriate.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
• Donne Poems
•Pope Poems either Twickenham or Everyman
Byron Poems Oxford Standard Authors, or any reasonably complete edition
Hardy Selected Shorter Poems, ed Wain Macmillan Eliot T S Collected Poems, Faber
Lowell Robert Lowell's Poems, ed Raban, Faber Fielding Tom Jones
Austen Emma
Dostoievsky Crime end Punishment
•Tolstoy Anna Karenin Twain Huckleberry Finn
• Conrad Victory
Lawrence Three Novellas, Penguin Waugh Decline and Fall
Camus The Outsider
• Aeschylus Agamemnon, MacNeice oY Green and Lattimore translation
• Shakespeare Macbeth Hamlet
The Winter's Tale Jonson Volpone
Chekhov Uncle Vanya Beckett Endgame ASSESSMENT
Students are required to submit two exercises and two essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Regular tutorial attendance Is expected, and students who, without the formal permission of the lecturer-in-charge, fail to submit the required exercises and essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the course. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account along with the examination. The examination will consist of not more than two 3-hour papers.
106-121 ENGLISH 1C
A course of one lecture and one tutorial per week, and one 1 %2 hour class per fortnight.
SYLLABUS
An introduction to the study of literature in its three main forms: poetry, fiction and drama. This will take the form of an intensive and selective study of two periods of English literature: the early seventeenth and the twentieth centuries.
Students will be encouraged to learn to read the works closely and carefully, and to make, for themselves and within their tutorial groups, 153
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relevant comparisons and contrasts, not only between individual works but between the two periods.
Texts for study are:
Shakespeare Sonnets as selected in class Twelfth Night
Henry IV, parts I & II Hamlet
The Tempest Donne Poems
Jonson Poems The Alchemist
Tourneur The Revenger's Tragedy
Hardy Selected Shorter Poems, ed Wain, Macmillan T S Eliot Collected Poems, Faber
Lowell Robert Lowell's Poems, ed Raban, Faber James The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce Dubliners ( in The Essentiel James Joyce, ed Levin, Penguin) Conrad Victory
Lawrence Three Novellas, Penguin White The Aunt's Story
Chekhov Uncle Vanya Beckett Happy Days
Stoppard Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Students may find The Norton Anthology of Poetry useful for further reading in both seventeenth and twentieth-century poetry, and it will almost certainly be required in later years of the English course.
ASSESSMENT
Students are required to submit two exercises and two essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Regular tutorial attendance is expected, and students who, without the formal permission of the lecturer-in-charge, fail to submit the required exercises and essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the course. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account along with the examination. The exami- nation will consist of not more than two 3-hour papers.
REFERENCE BOOKS
The following general references are recommended for all students intending to pursue studies in English:
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; Harvey ed The Oxford Com- panion to English Literature 4th ed 1967; and either The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary or The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL WORK in English 1A, 1B & 1C (see also p. 26)
A short course of lectures and/or tutorials normally for one hour a week, centring on Chaucer The Canterbury Tales.
The course will extend over the first part of the year. At the end of the course there will be an informal class test, which will be of special value to students interested in the possibility of taking an honours course in Pure English.
106-102 RHETORIC (Not available in 1977)
A course of two lectures a week, with tutorial classes.
English SYLLABUS
A study of the technique and style of English prose, linked with a study of the practical problems of English expression.
BOOKS
Prescribed texts:
Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Hazlitt, Macaulay, Dickens, R L Stevenson and others: Selections in cyclostyled booklets, from English Dept.
Huxley T H Selections from the Essays, ed Castel A, Crofts Classics Shaw Bernard Preface to Saint Joan, Penguin
Russell Bertrand In Praise of Idleness, Unwin Books Hemingway E A Moveable Feest, Penguin
The School of Barbiana Letter to a Teacher, Penguin WRITTEN WORK
Students are required to submit written work periodically throughout the year. Written and tutorial work will be taken into account at the exam- ination. Students who, without the formal permission of the lecturer-in- charge, fail to submit the required written work by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.
ASSESSMENT
Assessment will be based on the examination and on written and tutorial work during the year. The number of examination papers will not exceed two of 3 hours each.