ENGLISH LANGUAGE PART IV

A course of four to five lectures a week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS. (i) Beowulf and Old English Civilization and unprescribed trans- lation. (ii) Old Norse Texts and Civilization. (iii) History of the English Language. (iv) The Middle English Romance.

Candidates will take section (i) and any two other sections.

Воoкs. (i) For section (i) of the Syllabus.

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Whitelock, D.—The Beginnings of English Society. (Pelican.) . (b) Prescribed texts:

Klæber, Fr. (ed.) —ІэеоwиІј. (Heath.)

Wyatt, A. J. Anglo-Saxon Reader. (C.U.P.) . (c) Recommended for reference:

Anderson, G. K. —The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons. (O.U.P.) Kennedy, C. W.—The Earliest English Poetry. (О.U.Р.)

Chambers, R. W.—Beowulf—an Introduction. (C.U.P.) Lawrence, W. W.—Beowulf and Epic Tradition. (Harvard U.P.) Chadwick, H. M.—The Heroic Age. (С.U.Р.)

Tolkien, J. R. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. (Proc. Brit. Acad.

Vol. XXII, 1936.)

Hodgkin, R. H. History of the Anglo-Saxons, 2 vols. (Clarendon.) Stenton, F. M. Anglo-Saxon England. (O.U.P.)

Earle, J. and Plummer, C.—Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 2 vols.

(O.U.P.) .

Garmonsway, G. N. (tr.)—The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (Everyman.) Bede—Ecclesiastical History of the English People. (Everyman, Loeb Classics

or Penguin.) .

(ii) For Section (ii) of the Syllabus.

As for section (ii) of English Language Part III together with:

(a) Prescribed text-books:

Garmonsway, G. N. An Early Norse Reader. (С.U.Р.)

Foote, P. G., and Quirk, R. (eds.)—Gunnlaugssaga Ormstungu. (Viking Society for Northern Research.)

Typescript texts. (English Department.) ^.

(b) Recommended for reference:

Zoëga, G.—A

Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic.

(Clarendon.) Kendrick, T.

D. History of the Vikings.

(Methuen.)

Du Chaillu, P.

B.—The Viking Age,

2 vols. (Murray.)

Shetelig, H., and Falk, H. (tr. Gordon,

E. V.)—Scandi

па

via

п

Archaeology.

(O.U.Р.)

Turville-Petre,

G.—The Heroic Age of Scandinavia.

(Hutchinson.) Turville-Petre,

G.—Origins of Icelandic Literature.

^(О.U.P.)

Vigfusson, G., and Powell,

F.—Origines Islandica.,

2 vols. (O.U.P.) (iii) For Section (iii) of the Syllabus.

Recommended for reference

Jespersen,

O.-Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin.

(Allen and Unwin.)

Wyld, H.

C. —A Short History of English.

(Murray.) .

Wyld, H.

C. —A History of Modern Colloquial English.

(Blackwell.) Sapir,

E. — Language. (Harcourt.)

Baugh, A.

C. History of the English Language.

(Appleton-Century and Crofts.)

Ullmann,

S.—Principles of Semantics.

(Glasgow Univ. Pub. No. 84.) ^..

Bloomfield,

L.-Language.

(Holt.)

Gleeson, H. A. An

Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics.

(Holt.) Sturtevant,

E.

H. An

Introduction to Linguistic Science.

(Yale U.P.)

(iv) For Section (iv) of the Syllabus.

Prescribed text

Tolkien, J. R., and Gordon,

E.

V.

(eds.)-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

(

О.U.P.)

Further reading as selected in class.

EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour papers on section (i) and any two of the remain•

ing sections.

F. SCHOOL OF FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

1. The course for the Degree with Honours in the School of French Language and Literature comprises the following subjects:

French Parts I, II, III, IV, and

French Language and Literature Parts

I, II, III

in

accordance with the details set out below and as set out for the Ordinary Degree.

Candidates for the Degree with Honours must also take three additional subjects at Pass or Honour standard (preferably Philosophy

I

^or

a

first year History subject, and the two parts of a sub-major from Group I). It will be assumed, especially in the philological sections of the course, that students have

a

fair working knowledge of Latin, which is really an indispensable background to the study of French.

2. In their First Year, candidates in the Honour School will take the Honour Course in French Part I, and two additional subjects (one of which will normally form part of

a

sub-major) approved by the Professor of French. The first year

is

regarded as

a

preliminary year of general study, during which students will be expected to build

a

solid linguistic foundation for the Honour work of the later years and to acquire reasonable correctness and fluency in spoken and written French.

Admission to the higher years of the course is conditional upon satisfactory performance in this First Year, and students must be approved by the Faculty of Arts as candidates for the Degree with Honours before entering the Second Year of the Honour School. The Professor of French will normally recommend such approval for candidates who have gained at least Second Class Honours in French Part I. Other candidates who wish to continue in the Honour School must interview the Professor of French, who will be guided in his recommendation by the merits of the case.

A student who has completed the First Year of the, course for the Ordinary Degree, and has passed in French Part I may, with the permission of the Faculty,

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enter the Honour School. Such a student must make special application to the Faculty, through the Sub-Dean, and, if permission is granted, the Faculty will prescribe what further work must be completed before the student is allowed to proceed to the Final Examination.

3. In their Second Year, candidates will take the Honour course in French Part II, French Language and Literature Part I, and the second part of their sub-major or the remaining additional subject. In order to proceed to the Third Year, they will require to be "recommended to proceed" at the end of the Second Year.

4. In their Third Year, candidates will take the Honour courses in French Part III, and French Language and Literature Part II or Part III, according to the year in which the lectures in this subject are delivered. In their Fourth Year, candidates will take the Honour courses in French Part IV, and the remaining part of French Language and Literature. During both the Third and the Fourth Years they will attend such short lecture courses on background studies as may from time to time be prescribed. The Third and Fourth Years have been planned as a continuous course of study, but candidates will sit for a preliminary Final Examina- tion, both written and oral, at the end of the Third Year. Students should utilize the long vacation at the end of the Third Year to cover a major part of their Fourth Year reading.

5. The Final Examination in the School of French Language and Literature will be based on recorded class work of the Third arid Fourth Years and on the following series of tests:

(a) At the end of the Third Year:

A. Formal Examination Papers :

(1) French Literature of the XVIIth or XVIIIth century (General Study).

(2) Renaissance French Literature or Medieval French Literature.

(3) Renaissance French Language and Texts or Studies in Linguistics.

В. Class Tests :

(1) Advanced Unseen Translation into French.

(2) Advanced Unseen Translation from French into English.

(3) Special French Literary Studies, tested by essays during the Third Year.

(4) French Literature of the XVIIth or XVIIIth century (essay).

(5) Oral test in French.

(b) At the end of the Fourth Year:

A. Formal Examination Papers:

(1) Modern French Literature, First Paper.

(2) Modern French Literature, Second Paper.

(3) Renaissance French Literature, or Medieval French Literature.

(4) Renaissance French Language and Texts or Studies in Linguistics.

В. Class Test:

(1) Advanced Oral Test in French.

FRENCH PARTI

A course of lectures as for the Ordinary Degree, together with a special tutorial class, throughout the year.

SYLtnвus. As for the Ordinary Degree, with special stress on spoken French and unseen translation from and into French, and with the addition of a special literary subject.

Boors. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

See above under "French Subjects", Ordinary Degree. All students embarking upon an Honours course in French should read carefully:

Knight, R. C., and George, F. W. A. Advice to the Student of French, (Blackwell)

(b) Prescribed text-books:

*Burger, H., and James, R. L.—La France d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. (М.U.Р.) ; passages to be indicated on departmental notice-board.

*Anouilh. J—Antigone. (Ed. Landers, Harrap.)

*Вoase, A. 1.—The Poetry of France. (Methuen.)

*Armstrong,

L.—Phonetics

of French. (Bell.)

*Kirby, F. G.—The Student's French Grammar. (Macmillan.)

*Mansion,

J.-Shorter

French-English Dictionary. (Harrap.)

*Mansion, J.—Shorter English-French Dictionary. (Harrap.) Special literary subject for 1958:

Selected novels of Honoré de Balzac (to be indicated on the departmental notice-board) from the following list—

Le Père Goriot Eugénie Grandet La cousine Bette Une ténébreuse aбaire

Un grand homme de province à Paris

Le Lys dans la vallée .

César Birotteau

La peau de chagrin ^.

Le médecin de campagne

EXAMINATION. Three papers (a 3-hour paper on unseen translation into English, composition and prescribed texts ; a 2-hour paper on modern French literature; a 2-hour paper on the special literary study) ; tests and class work as for the Ordinary Degree, with special stress on dictation and reading.

FRENCH PART II

A course of four lectures and a special tutorial class per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS. (i) French Literature of the XVIIth or XVIIIth Century (ad- vanced treatment of the work set out for French Part II, Ordinary Degree).

(ii) Special Literary Study: . Baudelaire et Mallarmé.

(iii) Seminars on selected contemporary French authors.

(iv) Advanced unseen translation into English.

(v) Advanced unseen translation into French.

(vi) Spoken French.

EssAY WORK. In lieu of an Annual Examination in this section, candidates will be required to submit essays during the year, two on the Special Literary Study and two on the XVIIth or XVIIIth Century Literature.

ORAL WORK. Students will present themselves for a general oral examination on Section (i) of the Syllabus.

Воокs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

As for French Part II (Ordinary Degree).

(b) Prescribed text-books:

For reading—*Lagarde, A. et Michard, M. XVIIe siècle. (Bordas.) For reading and explication—.

Corneille, P.—*Le Cid. (Blackie, M.U.P., or Classiques Larousse.)

*Polyeucte. (Blackie, M.U.P., or Classiques Larousse.) Molière, J.—*Tartuffe. (Blackie, M.U.P., or Classiques Larousse.)

*Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. (Blackie, M.U.P., or Classiques Larousse.)

Racine, J.—*Phèdre. (Coll. "Mises en scène,' Ed. du Seuil.)

*Andromaque. (Blackie, M.U.P., or Classiques Larousse.) For special literary study—

*Baudelaire, Ch.—Les Fleurs du Mal. (Ed. de Cluny or Gamier.)

*Mallarmé, S. Poésies. (Gallimard.) (c) Recommended for reference:

For Part (i) of the Syllabus:

As for French Part II (Ordinary Degree), and in addition as set out under French Part III (Honours).

ЕxАmiNАТЮN. There will be no formal examination at the end of the Second Year. The literature of the XVIIth or XVIIIth century and the Special Literary Study will be tested by essays during the Second Year. There will be a class test at the conclusion of the seminar on contemporary authors.

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