6. Swift and Pope. 7. Wordsworth and Coleridge. 8. Tennyson and Browning. Candidates shall not offer any other subject or period as a Special Subject except with the permission of the Board. Applications for such permission must be presented to the Board, through the Assistant Registrar, not later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination, and must be accompanied by three copies of a full statement of the texts and authorities which the Candidate proposes to use. All Candidates offering a Special Subject must give notice of their intention, and specify the subject, to the Assistant Registrar, University Registry, Oxford, not later than the Saturday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. VI. The following scheme of papers is contemplated :— 1. Beowulf and other Old English texts. 2. Middle English texts. 3. Chaucer. 4. Shakespeare. And either (A) 5. History of English Literature. 6. Historical English Grammar. 7. Gothic and Germanic Philology. 8. Old English and Middle English set-books. 9. Old English and Middle English Unseen Translations. Or, (B) 5. Historical English Grammar. 6 History of English Literature from 1400 to 1637. 10. Special Subject. (i) Statute. [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. C.] § 12. Of the Honour School of Modern Languages. 1. The subjects of Examination in the Honour School of Modern Languages shall be the French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages, together with such other Modern European language or languages as shall have been added to this list in the manner hereinafter provided. No Candidate shall be required to offer more than one language. 2. The Examination in any language shall always include the history of the language and of its literature, together with Special Subjects falling within or usually studied in connexion with that language or its literature, or consisting of a period of the literature of another of the languages included in the School. 3. Every Candidate shall be expected to show a competent knowledge (1) of the chief periods of the language, (2) of its relation to those languages or dialects with which it is etymologically connected, (3) of the history of its literature or of prescribed periods thereof, (4) of the history, especially the social history, of the corresponding country or countries of Europe during the period or periods of literature which he offers, and (5) of prescribed authors or portions of authors, which shall be studied either (a) with reference to the forms of the language, or (b) as examples of literature, and in their relation to the history and thought of the period to which they belong. 4. The Examination in Special Subjects may be omitted by Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First Class. 5. Candidates shall further be required to show a competent knowledge of any language which they offer as it is spoken and written at the present day, and such knowledge shall be tested by an oral examination as well as by written composition. 6. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in the Final Honour School of Modern Languages, unless— (a) he has obtained Honours in the First or the Second Public Examination, or (b) he has passed the Examination in an Additional Subject at Responsions or an Examination statutably equivalent thereto in one of the languages French, German, Italian, and Spanish other than the language or languages offered by him in the said Final School, and has also passed the First Public Examination, or (c) he is qualified for admission under the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. cl. 6, or (d) he is an Affiliated, Colonial, Indian, or Foreign Senior Student. 7. In the Class List issued by the Examiners letters or signs shall be affixed to the names of those Candidates who obtain Honours, indicating the language or languages which they have offered for examination, and distinguishing those who have shown proficiency in the colloquial use of such language or languages. 8. 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. 9. The Board of the Faculty shall by notice from time to time make regulations concerning the Examination; and shall have power in respect of each language included in the Examination (1) To prescribe authors or portions of authors. (2) To specify one or more related dialects to be offered either as a necessary or as an optional part of the Examination. (3) To name periods of the history of the literature and to fix their limits. (4) To issue lists of Special Subjects in connexion either with language or literature or thought, prescribing books or authorities where they think it desirable. Such books or authorities may be in other languages than that to which the Special Subject is related. (5) To determine whether Candidates who aim at a place in the First Class shall be required to offer more than one Special Subject. 10. The Board of the Faculty shall have power (with the consent of the Hebdomadal Council) (1) to add *, for as long as they may think fit, any Modern European Language to the list specified in clause 1, provided that an application for the addition of such a language shall have been made by a Candidate to the Board of Studies at least twelve months * Russian was so added, May 9, 1904, and Medieval and Modern Greek, June 12, 1913 before the Examination for which he proposes to enter; (2) to remove from the said list any language which shall have been so added by them. 11. Every Candidate who proposes to offer himself for examination in the School in any language other than French or German must give notice to the Assistant Registrar not later than the last day of Trinity Full Term in the year preceding the Examination. 12. Candidates proposing to offer a Special Subject included in the list issued 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. 13. A Candidate whose name has been placed in the Class List upon the result of the Examination in any one or more of the languages included in the Examination shall be permitted to offer himself for examination in any of the other languages so included at any subsequent Examination before the end of the twentieth Term from his matriculation. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. The subjects of examination in any Language in this School are- IV. The History of its Literature. V. The History, especially the Social History, of the corresponding country or countries of Europe during the prescribed period of Literature. Every Candidate is required by Statute to show a competent knowledge of Subjects I-V. Any Candidate who fails to satisfy the Examiners in any one of these subjects may be refused a place in the Class List. VI. A Special Subject of Language or Literature. (This may be omitted by Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First Class.) I. THE LANGUAGE AS SPOKEN AND WRITTEN at the Present DAY. Candidates will be examined— (a) in original composition in the Language; (b) in translation of a passage or passages of English into the Language; (c) in the colloquial use of the Language. Every Candidate will be required to show a competent knowledge of the Language as spoken and written at the present day. Those who shall have shown proficiency in its colloquial use, and shall also have obtained Honours, shall be distinguished accordingly in the Class List. The Examination of Candidates in the colloquial use of the Language which they offer shall be distinct from the statutable viva voce Examination. It shall consist of three parts, viz.: (a) dictation; (6) reading aloud; (c) conversation. The dictation exercise shall be given out before the close of the written Examination. Candidates will be expected to converse on the books prescribed by the Board as examples of Literature. II. PRESCRIBED AUTHORS. In 1916 Candidates will be examined in the following texts, which are to be studied (1) with reference to the forms of the Language; (2) as examples. of Literature, and in their relation to the history and thought of the period to which they belong. In French. In 1916.1 1. Early monuments (Strasburg Oaths, Eulalia, St. Leger, Alexis). 2. La Chanson de Roland. 3. Beroul: Tristan. 4. Aucassin et Nicolete. 5. Extraits des Chroniqueurs français (ed. Paris et Jeanroy: Hachette). 6. Montaigne: Essais (I. 19, 24, 25; II. 8, 10, 12; III. 2, 3). 7. Pascal, with a special study of Pensées. 8. The Classical Drama with a special study of (a) Corneille : Le Cid; (b) Molière: L'École des Femmes, Critique de l'École des Femmes, Tartufe, Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; (c) Racine: Andromaque, Phèdre, Athalie. 9. J.-J. Rousseau, with a special study of Discours sur l'Inégalité, Lettre sur les Spectacles, Emile. 10. Victor Hugo, with a special study of Les Contemplations, La Légende des Siècles (Sections ii, x, xi, xv, xvii-xxii, xlix, lii, liv, lviii, ed. Hetzel Ne varietur). In German. In 1916.1 1. The Gospel of St. Mark in Gothic. 2. Braune: Althochdeutsches Lesebuch (6th edition), Sections iv, xvi, xxiii (Boethius), xxviii– xliii, omitting pp. 106-142. 3. Bartsch Liederdichter (4th edition), i-viii, xiv, xv, xxi. 4. Nibelungenlied (ed. Bartsch). 5. Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival (Books III,V). 6. Meier Helmbreht (ed. Panzer). 7. Hans Sachs: Dramatische Gedichte (ed. Tittmann). 8. Kunst- und Volkslied der Reformationszeit (ed. Kinzel). 9. Lessing, with a special study of his Hamburgische Dramaturgie. 10. Goethe, with a special study of Götz, Iphigenie, Tasso, Faust. II. Schiller, with a special study of Wallenstein, Braut von Messina, Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung. 12. Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe (selections by Robertson). 13. Hebbel, with a special study of Maria Magdalene, Herodes und Mariamne, Agnes Bernauer, Die Nibelungen. For the Examinations after 1916 see Appendix, p. 389. |