Students are required to submit written work periodically throughout the year.
Written and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examination. Students who fail to submit the required written work by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.
• EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.
41. ENGLISH PART II
A course of two lectures a week, with one tutorial class.
SYLLABUS
A study of nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and fiction. The poems to be studied will be selected in class from the authors listed below.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed texts:
.English Poetry in the 18th. Century: Davie, D. (ed.)—The Late Augustan.
Blake (Oxford Standard Authors).
Coleridge (Modem Library).
Wordsworth (Modern Library) . Byron—Don Juan. (Everyman.) Tennyson—In Memoriam, plus
• poems as selected in class. Both in Poetical Works. (Modern Library ed.) Browning—Men and Women.
• Yeats, W. B.—Selected Poetry. .(St. Martin's Library.) Eliot, T. S.—Four Quartets. (Faber.)
Thomas, Dylan — Collected Poems. (Dent.)
Hope, A. D.—Poems. (Hamish Hamilton.)
Austen, Jane—Emma.
Dickens, Charles—Our
Mutual Friend.Brontë,
E.—Wuthering
Heights.Eliot,
George—Middlemarch.Hardy, Thomas—Tess
of the D'Urbervilles.James, Henry—The
Portrait of a Lady.Conrad,
Joseph-Nostromo.Joyce, James—A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.Lawrence, D. Н.—Sons
and Lovers.White, Patrick—Voss.
(b) Recommended for reference:
Hazlitt-The
Spirit of the Age.(Everyman.)
Arnold, Matthew—Essays
in Criticism. Second Series.(Macmillan.) Leavis, F.
R.—Revaluation. (Chatto &Windus.)
Leavis, F.
R.—The Great Tradition. (Chatto &Windus.)
Kettle,
A.—Introduction to the English Novel.(2 vols., Hutchinson.) ESSAY WORK
Students are required to submit three essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account at the exami- nation. Students who fail to submit the required essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.
External students may obtain lecture notes in this subject.
EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.
42. ENGLISH PART III
A
course of three lectures and one tutorial class
aweek. ( Students who have passed in English B may count
apass in English part II as the third part of
amajor.) SYLLABUS
( 1 )
A study of English poetry and prose from Chaucer to the eighteenth century.
(2) A study of drama, mainly English.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed texts:
Chaucer—The
Canterbury Tales,as selected in class.
Spenser—as selected in class.
The Metaphysical Poets. (Ed.
Gardner.) (Penguin. )
For class-work students are strongly recommended to have
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne. ( ModernLibrary ) and
Marvell( The Laurel Poetry series.)
Milton—Paradise Lost.Dryden—Poems, as selected in class.
Pope—Poems, as selected in class. ( Everyman or other collected edition. The selection in Penguin Poets is not adequate.
)Bacon-Essays.
( Everyman or other edition.)
Browne—Religio Medici.Swift—Gulliver'в Travels. (Moderm
Library.)
Johnson—Prose, with special reference to the
Lives of the Poets and Preface to Shakespeare.Euripides—Hippolytus; (In
Alcestis and Other Plays,Penguin.)
Marlowe-Tamburlaine Part I, Dr. Faustus.Shakespeare-Troilus
and Cressida, Henry IV, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Cyrnbeline.Jonson—Volpone.
Webster—The
Duchess of Mal/i.(World's Classics.) Otway—Venice
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ountr Wife. served.
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Rest
oration' Pl
ays.(Everyman.)
y—Th y
Ibsen—The
Wild Duck(Penguin.)
Shaw
—
Мanand Superman. S
ignetClassics.)
Synge
—
Ridersto the
Sea an The Playboy of the Western World.(Vintage. )
61O'Casey—Juno and the Paycock.
O'Neill—The Iceman Cometh. (Alfred Knopf or Random House.) Miller, A.—A View from the Bridge. (Cresset. )
Lawler, R.—Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
(b) Recommended for reference:
Lewis, C. S -English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama.
(Clarendon.)
Tiiyard, E. M. W.—The Elizabethan World Picture. (Chatto & Windus.) Wilson, F. P.—Elizabethan and Jacobean. (O.U.P. )
Bush, D. English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century. (Clarendon.) Stephen, L. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century. (Duck-
worth.)
Nicoll, A.—British Drama. (Ramp.)
Bridges-Adams, W.—The Irresistible Theatre. ( Seeker and Warburg. ) ESSAY WORK
Students are required to submit two essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account at the exami- nation. Students who fail to submit the required essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.
External students may obtain lecture notes in this subject.
EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.
HONOURS DEGREE
E.
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
( For possible combinations with this school see p. 193.)
The First Year is regarded as a preliminary year of general study, and students should take, in addition to English, either one honours and one pass or three pass subjects.
Students require the approval of the faculty of Arts before entering on their Second Year as candidates for the degree with honours. Those will normally be approved who have gained at least second class honours in English Language and Literature part L Other candidates who wish to continue in the honour school should interview the professor, who will be guided in, his recommendation by the merits of the case.
A student who, without attempting honours, has passed in English part I and wishes to enter the honour school, must apply to the faculty, through the sub-dean, for permission to do so. If permission is given, the faculty will prescribe what further work he is to do.
All students are required to submit an essay at the beginning of the second term of their Fourth Year. This essay forms part of the final examination. The subject must be approved not later than the end of the second term of the Third Year. The essay should be from 12,000 to 15,000 words in length. It should be typewritten and double- spaced on quarto pages. A bibliography of works consulted should be appended.
Work on the essay should be begun during the long vacation.
PURE ENGLISH SCHOOL
1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of English Language and.
Literature comprises the following subjects:
English Language and Literature part I English Literature parts II, III and IV English Language parts II, III and IV
in accordance with the details set out below. Candidates must take these seven subjects and at least three approved additional subjects, one of which must be a language other than English. Two of these additional subjects should be chosen so as to constitute a sub-major.
2. In their First Year, candidates will take English Language and Literature part I, and at least two additional subjects, of which one will normаlу be the language other than English.
(2) (4)
In their Second Year they will take English Literature part II, English Language part II, in which subjects they are required to be classed, and the remaining additional subject.
In their Third Year, they will submit essays on topics included in the pass course (English part III) and will take English Literature part III and English Language part III; and in their Fourth Year, English Literature part IV and English Language part IV.
3. The final examination will be held in two parts, part I at the end of the Third Year, part II at the end of the Fourth Year.
Part I English Drama or Australian Literature.
Test in English part III (essays or examination).
Middle English.
Test in Elementary Old Norse.
Part II English Literature to 1800 (first paper).
English Literature to 1800 (second paper) .
Literary Theory and Criticism or Australian Literature.
Essay.
Beowulf and Old English texts. ' . and any two of the following:
History of the English Language.
Old Norse texts and civilization.
The Middle English Romance.
ENGLISH IN COMBINED COURSES
(A) English in combined honour courses will normally consist of English Language and Literature part I, and English Literature parts II, III and IV.
In their First Year, candidates will take English Language and Literature part I, and either one or two additional subjects. One of these additional subjects must, except in combination with a language school, be a language other than English.
In their Second Year, candidates will take English Literature part II, in which they are required to be classed, and the remaining additional subject.
In their Third Year, they will take paper 1 of part I of the final examination in the school of English Language and Literature and will submit essays on topics included in the pass course ( English part III ). ( Students who fail to submit satis- factory essay work will be required to take in addition paper 2.)
In their Fourth Year, they will take papers 1, 2 and „3 of part II of the final examination and submit an essay ( paper 4 ).
( B ) Candidates may take English Language as part of a combined honour course, provided that they give evidence of their ability to do so. The English subjects of the course are then:
English Language and Literature part I.
English Language parts II, III and IV. .
In their First Year, candidates will take English Language and Literature part I, and one of the two additional subjects.
In their Second Year, they will take English Language part II, and the remaining additional subject.
In their Third Year, they will take papers 3 and 4 of part I of the final examinations.
In their Fourth Year, they will submit an essay (paper 4) and take paper 5 and any two of papers 6, 7 and 8.
125. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PART I A course of four lectures a week, with tutorial work.
SYLLABUS
(i) The course in literature prescribed for English part I (ordinary degree).
Honour students are expected to read widely.
(ii) Outline of the development of the English Language to the present day, 63