SPECIAL SUBJECTS. (a) History of Persian Literature. This may be studied in Browne, Literary History of Persia; Pizzi, Storia della Poesia Persiana; Horn, Geschichte der Persischen Litteratur. (B) Iranian Philology, to be studied in Darmesteter's Études Iraniennes, Vols. I and II, or in Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie, herausgegeben von W. Geiger und E. Kuhn. (y) Pahlavi Texts, Vols. V, XVIII, XXIV, XXXVII, XLVIII of Sacred Books of the East. (8) Avesta Texts, Vols. IV, XXIII, XXXI of the same. V. EGYPTIAN. A. Candidates who take Egyptian must offer the following texts, (a)–(8) and either (e)-(8) or (n)−(λ). (a) Erman, Aegyptische Chrestomathie, pp. 1-70. (B) Mariette, Monuments divers, Plates 1-6. (y) Steindorff, Koptische Grammatik, pp. 1*-63*. (8) Zoega, Catalogus Codicum Copticorum, pp. 260-8, 380-2, 559-61, 584-7. (e) Erman, Aegyptische Chrestomathie, pp. 70-156, together with the hieratic text of all passages in the Chrestomathie which are transcribed from the Kahun, Prisse, Ebers and Wesctar papyri. (3) Select Papyri, Second Series, Plates 9–19. (7) Steindorff, Apokalypse des Elias, pp. 34-106. Schmidt, Acta Pauli, pp. 4*-14*. (0) Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, II, pp. 5-20. (1) Zoega, Catalogus Codicum Copticorum, pp. 151–6, 165-8. (K) Zeitschrift für Aegyptische Sprache, 1891, pp. 1-25. Krall, Rechtsurkunden, Nos. V, XLVIII, CXXII, CXXIX. (A) Annales du Musée Guimet, XXV, pp. 316-410. B. They will also be required to offer the History of Egypt down to the conquest by Alexander. C. They must also offer one special subject and one language from the following list: · (a) Arabic. Texts to be offered El-Fakhri (ed. Ahlwardt, 1860), pp. 88-175. Qur'ān, Suras 1-3. Ibn Qutaiba, 'Ujūn al Aḥbär (ed. Brockelmann), pp. 57-132. (B) Hebrew. I and II Samuel, The first six Minor Prophets, Job. (8) Evolution of hieroglyphs, and interpretation of tomb and temple scenes; to be studied in connexion with the scenes and explanatory inscriptions in Quibell and Paget, The Ramesseum and the Tomb of Ptah-hetep, Plates XXXI-XLI. Davies, Mastaba of Ptah-hetep, Part I. Davies, Rock Tombs of Dêr el Gebrawi, Part I. Newberry, Beni Hasan, Part I. Newberry, El Bersheh, Part I. Newberry, Life of Rekhmara. Naville and Tylor, Ahnas and Paheri, Tomb of Paheri, Plates I-X. History. (e) Ptolemaic and Roman organization of Egypt. (S) Foreign relations. (n) Greek and Latin authorities on Egypt. (0) History of Coptic Christianity. The Examination in each Language will in ordinary cases include grammar and prosody, translation of unseen passages, and composition. Candidates will be expected to have read the text which they offer with attention to the subject-matter as well as the language. Candidates who offer more than one Semitic language will be expected to show a knowledge of Comparative Semitic Grammar. xi. HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. (i) Statute. [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. C.] § 11. Of the Honour School of English Language 1. The Examination in the School of English Language and Literature shall always include authors or portions of authors belonging to the different periods of English literature, together with the history of the English language and the history of English literature. The Examination shall also include Special Subjects falling within or usually studied in connexion with the English language and literature. 2. Every Candidate shall be expected to have studied the authors or portions of authors which he offers (1) with reference to the forms of the language, (2) as examples of literature, and (3) in their relation to the history and thought of the period to which they belong. He shall also be expected to show a competent knowledge (1) of the chief periods of the English language, including Old English (Anglo-Saxon), and (2) of the relation of English to the languages with which it is etymologically connected, and (3) of the history of English literature, and (4) of the history, especially the social history, of England during the period of English literature which he offers. 3. The Examination in Special Subjects may be omitted by Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First Class. 4. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in this School unless he has passed the First Public Examination, or is qualified for admission under the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1, cl. 6, or is an Affiliated, Indian, Colonial, or Foreign Senior Student, or has obtained Honours in another Final Honour School, 5. It shall be the duty of the Board of the Faculty of Mediæval and Modern Languages in framing regulations, and also of the Examiners in the conduct of the Examination, to see that as far as possible equal weight is given to language and literature: provided always that Candidates who offer Special Subjects shall be at liberty to choose subjects connected either with language or with literature or with both. 6. The Board of the Faculty shall by notice from time to time make regulations respecting the Examination; and shall have power (1) To prescribe authors or portions of authors. (2) To specify one or more related languages or dialects to be offered either as a necessary or as an optional part of the Examination. (3) To name periods of the history of English literature, and to fix their limits. (4) To issue lists of Special Subjects in connexion either with language or with literature or with both, prescribing books or authorities where they think it desirable. (5) To prescribe or recommend authors or portions of authors in languages other than English, to be studied in connexion with Special Subjects to which they are intimately related. (6) To determine whether Candidates who aim at a place in the First Class shall be required to offer more than one Special Subject. 7. Candidates proposing to offer a special subject included in the list suggested by the Board of the Faculty shall give notice to the Assistant Registrar not later than the Saturday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. When such subject is not included in the said list, the Candidate must submit it to the approval of the Board at such time, not being later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination, as the Board shall prescribe. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. I. Every Candidate will be expected to show a competent knowledge of both sides of the subject, and equal weight in the examination will be attached to each; but the candidate by his choice of the alternative papers (mentioned below) will emphasize that side of the subject which has formed the main object of his study. II. Every Candidate will be examined in the following texts:1. Beowulf, The Fight at Finnsburg, and Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader, ed. 8, Nos. 1-29. The paper on Old English will include short passages from the texts for translation and comment, together with questions on grammar and literature. 2. Havelok, The Pearl, and Morris & Skeat's Specimens of Early English (Part I, 2nd ed., Nos. 5, 6, 9, 15, 19, and Part II). The paper on Middle English will include short passages for explanation and comment, together with questions on grammar and literature. 3. Chaucer and his contemporaries: The Legende of Good Women, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Squire's Tale. Candidates are also recommended to read some part of the works of Langland and Gower. The paper will include questions on the language of Chaucer. 4. Shakespeare: The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard II, Coriolanus, King Lear. The paper will include questions on Shakespeare's language. III. Candidates whose main study is the English Language will be examined in the outlines of English literary history, in general Germanic philology, and in the philology and history of the English language; in Gothic (the Gospel of St. Mark); and in the following Old English and Middle English authors:-In Old English: Deor's Complaint, Wife's Complaint, Waldere, The Ruin, The First Riddle, Exodus, Elene, Gregory's Dialogues, Bks. I and II (MSS. C and O), Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader, Nos. 30-34. In Middle English: An Old English Miscellany, ed. Morris, pp. 1-138, The Owl and the Nightingale, and The Taill of Rauf Coilzear. They will also be required to translate passages from Old English and Middle English authors not specially offered. IV. Candidates whose main study is English Literature will be examined in the general history of the English Language. In addition to the texts enumerated in § II, they will be expected to have studied the text of Milton, Paradise Lost, and to show a general but adequate knowledge of all the chief English authors. An Essay will also be set them on some subject within the scope of the School. The examination will include the history of Literature, of criticism and of style in prose and verse. Candidates will be expected to show such knowledge of the political and social history of England as is necessary to explain their authors. V. Candidates who aim at a place in the First Class must offer a Special Subject, which may be chosen from the following list:1. Old High German Philology, with a special study of Braune's Althochdeutsches Lesebuch. 2. Scandinavian Philology, with special reference to Icelandic, together with a special study of the following texts : Snorra Edda, Gylfaginning (chapters 20-54); Volsunga saga (chapters 13-31); Hallfreðar saga, Þorfinns saga karlsefnis, Hrafnkels saga. 3. Old French Philology, with special reference to Anglo-Norman French, and a special study of the following texts: Ph. de Thaun, Le Bestiaire, ed. E. Walberg, 1900; Boeve de Haumtone, ed. Stimming (Bibliotheca Normannica, vol. 7), 1899; Les contes moralisés of Nicole Bozon, ed. Smith and Meyer, 1899. 4. Elizabethan Tragedy. 5. Milton. |