ENGLISH SUBJECTS - faculty of arts and board of studies in journalism

NOTE. No books have been asterisked, as all prescribed texts are essential books which the student should if possible possess.

ENGLISH PARТ I

A course of two lectures a week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.

Sугі.aвus. A study of poetry, fiction and drama as set out below. Students should do as much as possible of their reading for this subject before lectures begin.

Booкs. (a) Prescribed texts

:

(1) Poetry

Hopkins, G. M., and Eliot, T. S.—Selections with introductory informa- tion will be found in Three Modern Poets (obtainable from the Depart- ment of English) ; but the Penguin edition of Hopkins (poems and some prose) and Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1935 (Faber) are well worth having.

Milton—Minor Poeins. (The complete poetical works will be needed in Third Year.)

Donne—Songs and Sonnets. (Penguin Poets or other edition.)

Quiller-Couch, A. (ed.)—The Oxford Book of Ballads; or Border Ballads.

(Penguin Poets.)

Pope—Poems as selected in class.

(2) Fiction

Defoe—Robinson Crusoe

• Fielding—Tom Jones.

Scott—The Heart of Midlothian.

Borrow—Lavengro.

Tolstoy—Anna. Karenina, trans. Rosemary Edmonds. (Penguin.) Forster—A Passage to India. (Everyman or Penguin.)

(3) Drama

Shakespeare—Macbeth and Ieasitre for Measure.

Ibsen—Hedda Gabler. (Penguin.)

Miller, A.—Death of a Salesman. (Compass Books.) (b) Recommended for reference:

Ifor- Evans,

В.—Short

History of English Literature. (Penguin.) Legouis, E., and Cazamian, L.—History of English Literature. (Dent.) Raleigh, W. A.—The English Novel. (Murray.)

Allen, W.—The English Novel. (Penguin.)

Watt,

I.—The

Rise of the Novel. (Chatto & Windus.)

ESSAY Wоaк. Students are required to submit the prescribed essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examination. 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.

RHETORIC

A course of two lectures a week, with tutorial classes, throughout the year.

This course is intended both for Arts students (as a single subject) and for students in the. Diploma in Journalism course; it may be taken by students in Faculties other than Arts.

SYLгΡ.AВus. A study of the technique and style of English prose, linked with a study of the practical problems of English expression. •

floors. (a) Prescribed texts:

Selections will be made in class from the works of Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Hazlitt, T. H. Huxley, R. L. Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and others.

In most cases, the texts will be available from the English Department in cyclostyled booklets. (A fee of Li will be charged to cover all cyclostyled material issued during the year.)

(b) Recommended for reference:

The Concise Oxford Dictionary (4th ed.).

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Wyld, H. C.

(ed.)—The

Universal English Dictionary.

Roget's Thesaurus. (Penguin.)

Fowler, H. W., and F. G.—The King's English. (O.U.P.) Fowler, H. W.—Modern English Usage. (O.U.P.) Partridge, E.—Usage and Abusage. (Hamilton.) Vallins, G. H.—The Pattern of English. (Penguin.) Carey. G. V.—Mind the Stop. (С.U.Р.)

Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford.

Stebbing, L.

S.—Thinking

to Some Purpose.

Jespersen, 0.—The Growth and Structure of the English Language.

Potter, S.—Our Language. (Penguin.)

Gowers, E.—The Complete Plain Words. (H.M.S.O.)

Vallins, G.

1.—Good

English: How tо Write It. (Pan Books.) Vallins, G.

H.—Better

English. (Pan Books.)

Read,

H. English

Prose Style. (Bell.) Chase, S.—The Tyranny of Words.

Phillips, M. and A.

A.—Presenting

Ideas. (Longmans.)

WRITTEN Wonu. Students are required to submit written work periodically throughout the year. Written work 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.

EXAMINATTox. Two 3-hour papers.

ENGLISH PARТ II

A course of two lectures a week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.

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.

Воокs. (a) Prescribed texts (1) Poetry

Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Arnold—Poetical Works. (Oxford Standard Authors or other collected editions. The Penguin selections are

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adequate only for Coleridge and Arnold.)

Yeats, W. B.—Collected Poems. (Macmillan.) Eliot, T. S. Four Quartets. (Faber.)

Auden, W. H .—Collected Shorter Poems. (Faber.) (2) Fiction

Austen, Jane—Emma.

Peacock, T. L.—Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle. (The Novel Library.) Hawthorne, Nathaniel—The Scarlet Letter.

Dickens, Charles—Bleak House.

Brute, E: Wuthering Heights.

Eliot, George—Middlemarch. .

James, Henry—The Portrait of a Lady.

Conrad, Joseph

—Nostromo.

Joyce, James—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Lawrence, D. H.—The Rainbow.

(b) Recommended for reference:

Hazlitt—The Spirit of the Age. (Everyman.)

Arnold, Matthew—Essays in Criticism. Sесопд Series. (Macmillan.) Elton, O.-4иrvey of English Literature 1780-1830 and 1830-1880. (Arnold.) Willey, B.—Nineteenth. Century Studies. (Chatto & Windus.)

Hough, G.—The Romantic Poets. (Hutchinson.) Bowra, M.—The Romantic Imagination. (Macmillan.) Leavis, F. R.-Revaluation. (Chatto and Windus.)

Baker, E. A.—History of the English Novel, Vols. VI-VIII. (Witherby.) Cecil, D.—Early Victorian Novelists. (Constable.)

Lubbock, P.-The Craft of Fiction. (Cape.)

Leavis, F. R.—The Great. Tradition. (Chatto & Windus.)

Kettle, A. Introduction to the English Novel. (2 vols., Hutchinson.) EssAY WoRx. 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 examination. 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 ExAMINArtox. Two 3-hour papers.

ENGLISH PARТ III

A course of three lectures a week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year. (Students who have passed in English B may count a pass in English Part II as the third part of a major.)

SYЪLAВus. (1) A study of. English poetry and prose from Chaucer to the eighteenth century.

(2) A study of the development of English Drama.

Booкs. (a) Prescribed texts (1) Poetry and Prose

Chaucer—The Canterbury Tales, as selected in class.

Spenser—as selected in class.

The Metaphysical Poets. (Ed. Gardner.) (Penguin.) 9

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or Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Butler. (Ed. Grierson.) (O.U.P.) 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's Travels. (Oxford Standard Authors.)

Johnson—Prose, with special reference to the Lives of the Poets and Preface to Shakespeare.

(2) Drama

Sophocleг—The Theban Plays. (Penguin.) . Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays. (Ed. Cawley.) (Everyman.) Udall-Ralph Roister Duister. l (Everyman—Minor Elizabethan Greene—Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 5 ' Drama.)

Marlowe—Taenburlaine, Part I, Dr. Faustus.

Shakespéare-as selected in class.

Jonson—The Alchemist.

Webster—Tlie White Devil.

Otway—Venice Wycherley-The CPrese

ountry Wife. f Wife. Plays.) Ibsen—The Wild Duck. (Penguin.)

Galsworthy—Strife. (Duckworth.) .

Shaw—Major Barbara. (Penguin.)

Synge—Riders to the Sea, The Playboy of the Western World. (Penguin.) O'Casey—Juno and the Paycock. (Macmillan.)

O'Neill—The Iceman Cometh. (Cape.) Miller —A View from the Bridge. (Cresset.)

(b) Recommended for reference and further reading:

(1) Lewis, C. S.—The Allegory of Love. (О.U.Р.)

г Lewis, C. S.—English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama.

(Clarendon.)

Tillyard, E. M. W.—The Elizabethan World Picture. (Chatto and Windus.) Wilson, F. P.—Elizabethan and Jacobean. (О.U.Р.)

Leavis, F. R.—Revaluation. (Chatto and Windus.)

Bush, D.—English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century. (Clarendon.) Hanford, J. 1.—A Milton Handbook. (Crofts.)

Willey, B.—The Seventeenth Century Background and The Eighteenth Century Background. (Chatto and Windus.)

Saintsbury, G. E.—The Peace of the Augustan. (World's Classics.)

Stephen, L.—English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century.

(Duckworth.)

(2) Five Pre-Shakespearean Comedies. (Ed. Boas.) (World's Classics.) Minor Elizabethan Drama. (Ed. Thorndike.) (Everyman.)

Eighteenth Century Plays. (Ed. Hampden.) (Everyman.) Nineteenth Century Plays. (Еd. Rowell.) (World's Classics.) Hazlitt—Lectures on the English Comic Writers. (Everyman.) Nicoll, A. British Drama. (Harrap.)

Granville-Barker and Harrison (ed.)—Companion to Shakespeare Studies.

(О.U.Р.)

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 examination. 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.

FINE ARTS

A

A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.

Fine Arts A will be given every year. _ Although this subject is a self- contained course it is also a desirable preparation for Fine Arts В and/or Fine Arts C.

ЅУLLАВUѕ. A survey of the Western tradition in Art up to the present day, with an introduction on Pre-Hellenic Art.

Students are required to submit written work.

Boons. The following is a basic list. Further bibliographies will be supplied throughout the year. Students are recommended to buy the books marked with an asterisk.

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading: •

*Gombrich, E. H.

J.-The Story of Art.

(Phaidon.)

either

*Robb, D. M., and Garrison, J. J.

Art in the Western World.

(Harper.)

or

*Gardner, Helen-Art

through the Ages.

(London, G. Bell.) (b) Prescribed text-books:

Holt, E.

G.—Literary Sources of Art History.

(Princeton, 1947.)

Holt, E.

G. —A Documentary History of Art.

2 vols. (Doubleday, N.Y., 1958.)

—A new edition of the same book.

Goldwater, R., and Treves,

1.—Artists on Art.

(Pantheon Books.) Wölffliп,

H. Principles of Art History.

Panofsky,

E.—Studies in Iconology

(the introductory chapter). (0.U.P.,1939.) Panofsky,

E.—

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g

the Visual Arts.

(1st and 2nd chapters.) (N. York,

Doubleday, 1955.)

Clark,

K.—The Nude.

(Murray, 1956.) Clark,

K.—Landscape into Art.

(Pelican.)

*Pevsner, N. An

Outline of European Architecture.

(Pelican.) Beazley, J. D., and Ashmole,

B.—Greek Sculpture and Painting.

Adam,

L.—Primitive Art.

(Pelican.)

Richter,

G. —A Handbook of Greek Art.

(Phaidon, 1959.) М&lе,

E.—Religiows Art.

(Abridged.)

Gould, C. An

Introduction to Italian Renaissance Painting.

(Phaidon, 1957.)

*Berenson,

B.—The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.

(Oxford, 1932, with- out illus.; Phaidon, 1952, with illus.)

Giedion,

S.—Space, Time and Architecture.

(Harvard Univ. Press.) Read, H.—Art

Now.

(Pelican.)

Kleе, P.—On

Modern Art.

(Faber.) (c) Recommended for reference

:

Propylaea Kunstgeschichte

series (for illustration).

*Murray, P., and

L.-A Dictionary of Art and Artists.

(Pelican, 1959.) Lange, K., and Hirmer,

M.—Egypt.

(Phaidon.)

Frankfort,

H.—The Art of the Ancient Orient.

(Pelican History of Art.) Frankfort,

H.-Before Philosophy. (Pelican.)

Trendall, A.

D.—Handbook to the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.

(Univ. of Sydney, 2nd ed., 1948.)

Richter, G. M.

A.—The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks.

(Yale Univ.

Press.)

Richter, G. М,

A. Archaic Greek Art.

Robertson, D.

Sï Greek and Roman Architecture.

(2nd ed., 1943.) Lawrence, A.

W.—Greek Architecture.

(Pelican History of Art.) Pfuhl,

E.—Masterpieces of Greek Painting and Drawing.

Bieber,

M.—The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age.

Strong,

E.—Roman Art.

Maiuri,

A.—Roman Painting.

(Skira.)

van der Meer—An

Atlas of the Early Christian World.

(Nelson, 1958.) Morey,

C.—Early Christian Art.

(Princeton Univ. Press, 1953.)

Rice, Talbot—Byzantine Art. (Pelican.) .

links,

R.-Carolingian Art.

(Sidgwick and Jackson, 1935.)

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Morey, C.

R. Medieval Art.

(Norton.)

Summerson,

J—Heavenly Mansions.

(Cresset Press.) Lavedan,

P.—French Architecture. ( Pelican. )

*Wölffíin,

H.-Classic Art.

(Phaidon.)

Pope-Hennessy,

J. Italian Gothic Sculpture.

(Phaidon, 1958.) Pope-Hennessy, J-Italian

Renaissance Sculpture.

(Phaidon, 1958.)

Wittkower, R.—Art

and Architecture in Italy, 1600-11750.

(Pelican History of Art, 1958.)

Venturi, L. Impressionism

and Symbolism.

Rewald,

J.-History of Impressionism.

(New York, Museum of Modern Art.) Rewald, J.

History of Post-impressionism.

(New York, Museum. of Modern

Art.)

Gauss, C.

E. Aesthetic Theories of French Artists.

(O.U.P.) Pevsner,

N. Pioneers of the Modern Movement.

(Faber.)

Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of. Modern

Art. (New York, Museum of Modern Art.)

Hitchcock, H.

R.—Architecture, 19th and 20th Centuries.

(Pelican History of Art.)

Le Corbusier—Towards

a New Architecture.

(Payson and Clark.) Gropius,

W.—The New Architecture and the Bauhaus.

(1935.) Smith,

B.—Place, Taste and Tradition.

(Ure Smith.)

Boyd,

R. Australia's Home.

(Melbourne Univ. Press, 1952.)

Herman, 1.—The

Early Australian Architects.

(Angus & Robertson. ) For a study of the Modern Movement the publications of the New York City

Museum of Modern Art and the series

Documents of Modern

^Art

(Wittenborn Schultz) will be most valuable.

ExAMiNATioN. Two 3-hour papers.

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