ITALIAN PART II - faculty of arts and board of studies in journalism

A course of four lectures, with one tutorial class throughout the year.

SYLLAВus. (i) The literature of the Renaissance with historical background.

(ii) Special literary study of Manzoni.

(iii) Special literary study of 20th century authors.

(iv) Translation into Italian.

(v) Translation into. English, unseen and prepared.

(vi) Dictation, conversation.

EssлY WORK. Students are required to submit an essay in Italian on some aspect of Renaissance literature or on Manzoni.

Booкs. (a) Prescribed text-books:

*Cioffari, V. Italian Review Grammar and Composition. (Heath, Boston.)

*Bormioli, M., and Pellegrinetti, G. A.—Letture italiane per stranieri, Vol. II..

(Edizione scholastice Mondadori, Milano.)

*De Robertis, G.

—Poesia

lirica moderna e contemporanéa. (Le limier, Firenze.)

*Russo, L.—' classici italiani, Vol. II, Pt.

1.

(Sanson, Firenze.)

*Manzoni, A. 1 Pron:cssi Sposi. (ed. Momigliano.) ( Sansoni, Firenze.)

*Palazzeschi, A.—Le sorelle Materassi. ("Collana Contemporanea.") (Vallecchi, Firenze.)

(b) Recommended for reference:

Burckhardt, J.—The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. (Phaidon.) Ferguson, W. K.—The Renaissance. (Holt, N.Y.)

Ady, C. M.—The Age of Lorenzo de'Medici. (E.U.P.)

Crawford, R. M.—The Renaissance and Other Essays. (M.U.P.) Symonds, J. A.-Renaissance in Italy. (John Murray.)

Ross, J. B., and McLaughin, M. M. (eds.)—The Portable Renaissance Reader.

(Viking, N.Y.)

Chabod, F. Machiavelli and the Renaissance. (Bowes & Bowes.) Whitfield, J.—Machiavelli. (O.U.P.)

Russo, L.—Machiavelli. (Laterza, Bari.)

Gardner, E. G.—The Arthurian Legend in. Italian Literature. (Dent.) Gardner, E. G.

—Ariosto,

the King of Court Poets. (Constable.) Momigliano, A.—Saggio

su

l'Orlando Furioso. (Laterza, Bari.) Colquhoun, A.—The Life of Alessandro

Manzoni.

(Dent.) Momigliano, A.—

Manzoni.

(Principato, Milano.)

Russo, L.—' personaggi

dei

Promessi Sposi. (Laterza, Bari.)

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers (the first on Unseen Translation into English and into Italian and Composition; the second on Renaissance Literature.

and texts); one 2-hour paper on Manzoni; terminal tests on special 20th century

authors and in dictation. Class work will be taken into account in the determining of examination results.

N.B. Students entering Italian Part II from Italian IA are required, in addition, to sit for the second written examination of Italian Part I.

ITALIAN PART III

A course of four lectures with one tutorial hour throughout the year.

SvгΡ лвus. (a) The literature of the 14th century with special reference to Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.

(b) Special literary study of a modern author: in 1961, Pirandello.

(d) Translation into English, prepared and unseen.

(e) Dictation, ' conversation.

Essnv WoRK.. Students are required to submit an essay in Italian on an aspect of (a) or (b) of the syllabus.

Booкs. (a) Prescribed text-books :

*Alighieri, Dante—Figuri ed episodi della Divina Commedia. A cura di G.

Vandelli. (Sansoni, Firenze.)

*Вoccaccio,

G.-11 Decamerone. Con

un'appendice delle opere minori. A cura di L. Russo. (Sansoni, Firenze.)

*Petrarca,

F.

—Dalle

rime e

dai trionfi. A cura di N. Sapegno. (La Nuova Italia, Firenze.)

*Pirandello,

L. Novelle.

A cura di G. Morpurgo. (Edizione scholastice Mondadori, Milano.)

*Pirandello,

L.—Sei personаggi.in.

cerca d'autore;

Enrico IV.

(Bib. Moderna Mondadori, Milano.)

(b) Recommended for reference:

Alighieri, Dante—La Divina Commedia. Con il commento di T. Casini. (San soni, Firenze.)

Alighieri, Dante—La Divina Commedia. Commento di N. Sapegno. (La Nuova Italia, Firenze.)

Cosmo, U. —.A

Handbook to Dante Studies.

(Blackwell.) Maggini,

F.—Introdu

ione

allo

studio di Dante.

(Laterza, Bari.) Barbi,

M.—Life of Dante.

(California U.P.)

Cosmo,

U.—Vita di Dante.

(Laterza, Bari.)

Vossler, К. Medieval Culture An Introduction to Dante and His Times.

2 vols. (Constable.) .. ... .

Whitfield, J.

H. Dante and Virgil.

(Blackwell.)

Sayers, D.

L. Introductory Papers of Dante.

(Methuen.) Sayers, D.

L.—Further Papers on Dante.

(Methuen.) De Sanetis,

F.—De Sanctis on Dante.

(Wisconsin U.P.) Croce, B.—La poesia

di

Darete. (Laterza, Bari.) .

Russo,

L.—

Letture critiche

del Decamerone..

(Laterza, Bari.) Macmanus,

F. Boccaccio.

(Sheed & Ward.)

Starkie,

W.—Luigi Pirandello.

(John Murray.) Ferrante,

L.—Pirandello.

(Parenti, Milano.)

EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour papers (the first on Unseen Translation into English, and ori the prescribed modern author; the second on Dante; the third on 14th century literature). Terminal tests on translation into Italian and dictation.

An oral test of twenty minutes.

GERMAN PART IA

This course has been replaced by an evening course in German Part. I. For details see German Part I (below).

GERMAN PART I

The course assumes that students have reached pass standard in German at

the Matriculation Examination. .

A course of four lectures per week throughout the year, together with one tutorial class. Besides the course for day students there will be an evening

course with the syllabus as set out below; lectures on item (ii) (Monday, 4.15) for day and evening students combined.

Svr /taus. (i) Phonetics, Dictation. Grammar, translation at sight, com- position and conversation.

(ii) (a) Introduction to the history of the German language.

(b) Outlines of German history from 1740-1914.

(iii) Study of selected works, prose and verse, illustrative of German literature, history and civilization at significant periods.

With a view to the oral test students are required to study in detail ten of the prescribed poems and to concentrate, under the lecturer's guidance, on one drama or one prose work selected from the list prescribed for discussion.

The quality of the work of the candidate throughout the course will be taken into account at the Annual Examination.

Books. (a) Prescribed text-books:

f*Oxfard Book of German Prose. (ed. H. Fiedler, O.U.P., 1942.) t*Oxford Book of German Verse. (ed. H. Fiedler, O.U.P., 1947.)

f*Ried, G.—Wesen und Werden der deutschen Dichtung. (Lutz, München 1953, or later ed.)

t*Russon, L. J.—Complete German Course for First Examinations. (Longmans, 1948.)

f*Cassell—New German-English and English-German Dictionary. (In 1 0r 2 vols., Cassell, rev. ed., Betteridge, 1957.)

t*Germany—A Map Folder. (M.U.P., 1948.) (New edition in preparation.) (b) Prescribed for discussion in class or tutorial:

Goethe, J. W.—"Urfaust", 1775. (ed. Samuel, Macmillan, 1958.)

Schiller, F.—Kabale und Liebe, (1784). (ed. Wilkinson and Willoughby, Black- well, 1946.)

Gotthelf, J.-Die schwarze Spinne, (1842). (ed. Waidson, Blackwell, 1956.) Droste-Hülshoff, A.—Die Judenbuche, (1842). (ed. J. R. Forster, Harrap,

1955. )

Holz und Schlaf—Die Familie Selicke, (1890). (Cambridge Plain Texts, C.U.P., 1950.)

Hauptmann, G.—Вahnwårter Thiel, (1887). (Reclam, No. 6617.)

Frenzel, H. A. Daten.. deutscher Dichtung. Chronologischer Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.

(Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Köln, 2nd ed., 1959.)

Robertson, J. G.—A History of German Literature. (3rd revised ed., Black- well, 1959.)

Bruford, W. H.—Germany in the Eighteenth Century: the Social Background of the Literary Revival. (O.U.P., 1934, or later ed.)

Röhl, H.—Sturm und Drang. (Deutschkundliche Bücherei.)

Pascal, R.—The German Sturm und Drang. (Manchester Univ. Press, 1953.) Pascal, R.—Shakespeare in Germany, 1740-1815. (C.U.P., 1936.)

Price, L. M.—The Reception of English Literature in Germany. (Univ. ^of Calif. Press, 1932.)

Goethe, J. W. von—Dichtung und Wahrheit, Books IX-XII. (ed. Houston, Blackwell, 1945.)

Garland, H. B.—Lessing. The Founder of Modern German Literature. (Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1949.)

Garland, H. B. Schiller. (Harrap, 1949.)

Bennett, E. К. A History of the German Novelle, from Goethe to Thomas Mann. (C.U.P., 1949.)

Wiese, В. von—Die deutsche Novelle von Goethe bis Kafka. Interpretationen.

(Bagel, Düsseldorf, 1957.)

Lockemann, F.-Gestalt und Wandlung der deutschen Novelle. (Hueber.

Munchen, 1957.)

tThese books will be used in later years.

Barraclough, G. Factors in German History. (Blackwell, 1946.) Steinberg, S. H.—A Short History of Germany. (C.U.P., 1944.) Passant, E. S.—A Short History of Germany (1815-1945). (C.U.P., 1959.).

Rassow, P. (ed.)—Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte. (Stuttgart, Metzler, 1952.)

Treue, W.—Deutsche Geschichte. (Kröner, Stuttgart, 1958.)

Gooch, G. P. Frederick the Great. The Ruler, the Writer, the Man. ^(Long- mans, 1947.)

Collinson, W» and Connell, E.-An English-German/German-English Diction- ary. (Penguin, London, 1954.)

Der. Sprach-Brockhaus. (Pitman, or any other edition.) Duden, К.Ft lörterbuch. (4th ed, Harrap.)

Wasserzieher, E.-WoherP (Bonn, F. Diimmlers Verlag, 1959.) (A short etymological dictionary.)

Kluge, F. Etýmologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. (de Gruyter, 13th ed., 1953.)

Kirk, A.—Introduction to the Historical Study of New High German. (Man-

.. . chester Univ. Press, 1948.)

Wardale, W. L.-German Pronunciation. (Edinburgh Press, 1955.)

EXTERNAL Sтunias. Country students should get in touch with the Head of the Department of Germanic Languages at the beginning of the Academic Year. They are required to submit evidence

of

the progress of their work during the year, and should make every effort to discuss once a term in person their work with

the

lecturers in their respective subjects.

The Department of Germanic Languages will offer advice and information of a general nature as to courses for external students.

Written work (translations and essays) sent to the Department will be corrected and returned.

ЕхAMINATг0N. Two 3-hour papers (the first on Translation and Composition, the second on Prescribed Authors) ; oral test of fifteen minutes.

GERMAN PART II

A course of four lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year There will also be an evening course.

SYLLABUS. (i) Study of texts illustrative of German literature, history and civilization between 1775 and 1830.

(ii) Course of lectures on History of German Literature which in 1961 covers the period up to 1770.

(iii) Study of Goethe's Faust and Hofmannsthal's Der Tor und der Tod (1895).

(iv) Advanced language study.

With a view to the oral test each student is required to concentrate, under the lecturers guidance, on two authors treated during the year.

Bonis. Students are advised to read during the preceding long vacation Faust, Parts I and II, and two of the books prescribed for discussion.

(a) Prescribed texts and text-books :

*Goethe—Faust, Parts I and II. (ed. Thomas, Heath; Trunz, Hamburg; or any complete edition.)

*Hofmannsthal, H. von—Der Tor und der Tod. (ed. Gilbert, Blackwell.)

*Oxford Book of German Prose.

*Oxford Book of German Verse. f See Part I.

*Ried, G.

—Wesen

und Werden der deutschen Dichtung. (See Part I.)

*Russon, L. J.

—

Complete German Course for First Examinations. (Longmans, 1948.) (See Part I.)

*Brookes/Fraenkel—German Prose Composition. (Heinemann, 1958.)

*Steinberg, S. H. Fifteen German Poets from Hölderlin to George. Parts I and II. (Macmillan, 1948.)f

f ^Тhі will be used in German Part III also.

(b) Prescribed for discussion in class and tutorial

Goethe

^—Hermann

und Dorothea

^(1797).

(Reclam,

No. 55, or any other edition.)

Goethe

—Tasso (1790).

(Reclam,

No. 88, or any other edition.)

Novalis

—

^Hymnen

an

die

Nacht, etc. (1800).

(Insel Büchere

i,

Wiesbaden, No. 21.)

Wackenroder, H., and Tieck, L. Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (1797). (ed. Gillies, Blackwell, 1948.)

Kleist, H.

von—Three Stories.

(ed. Garland, Manchester Univ. Press.)

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

Das

Fräulein

von Scudéri.

(ed. R. Taylor, Nelson, 1959.) Heine, H. Die romantische Schule.

(Reclam,

Nos. 8163-65, or any other

full edition.) .

Bibliographies for Syllabus

(i)

and (iii) available from the Department.

Golther,

W. Die deutsche

^Literatur

im

Mittelalter,

800-1500.

(Metzler,

Stutt- gart,

1912, or later ed.)

Schneider, Н

Heldeпdichtиng, Geůtlicheпdichtuпg,

Ritterdichtung. (Winter, Heidelberg, 1943.)

Samuel, R.

H.—Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea.

(in prep.). (London, Arnold.)

Steinen,

Wolfram von den

—Das

Zeitalter Goethes. (Bern, 1949.)

Korff, H. A.-Geist

der

Goethezeit (1770-1830), 5 vols. (Leipzig, 1949

ff.)

Rehm,

W.—

Griechentum und Goethezeit. (Bern, 1952.)

Butler,

E.-The Tyranny of Greece over Germany.

(C.U.P., 1936.)

Ermatinger,

E.-Die deutsche

^Lyrik

in

^ihrer

.

geschichtlichen Entwicklung.

(Leipzig, 1925.)

Hirschenauer/Weber

—Wege

zum Gedicht.

(München,

1956.)

Wiese, B. von—Die

deutsche

^Tragödie

von

Lessing bis

Hebbel,

^{2 vols.}

(Campe,

Hamburg, 1953.)

Bennett, E.

K. A History of the German Novelle, from

^Goethe

to Thomas Mann.

(C.U.P., 1949.)

Wiese, B. von—Die

deutsche Novelle von

Goethe bis Kafka. Interpretationen.

(Bagel,

Düsseldorf,

1957.)

Thomas, R.

H.—The Classical Ideal in German Literature.

(C.U.P., 1936.) Kluckhohn, P.

Das

^Ideengut

der

deutschen Romantik.

(Tübingen,

1953.) Tymms, R.—German

Romantic Literature.

(Methuen, 1955.)

Butler,

E.—The Saint Simonian Religion in Germany.

(C.U.P., 1926.) Barraclough, G.—The

Origins of Modern Germany.

⁽Вlackwell, 1953.)

Kluge, F.

Etymologisches

Wörterbuch. (See Part I.)

EXTERNAL SТunІES. Country students are required to submit evidence of the progress of their work during the year and should make every effort to discuss once a term in person their work with the lecturers in their respective subjects.

EXAIINATTON. Two 3-hour papers (the first on Translation and Composition,

the second on Literature and Prescribed Authors) ; oral test of fifteen minutes.

GERMAN PART III

A course of five lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year. Students who wish to study Middle High German texts may attend the relevant course for Part II (Ions.). Evening courses will be given.

SvLLАВUs. (i) Study of selected works, illustrative of German literature and civilization from the middle of the 19th century.

(ii) A course of lectures on the background of Modern Germany from 1871.

(iii) Study of the German novel from 1796 to the present.

(iv) A course of lectures on the History of German Literature, which in 1961 will cover the period up to 1770.

(v) Advanced linguistic studies.

With a view to the oral test each student is required to concentrate, under the lecturer's guidance, on one lyrical poet of the period mentioned, one novel or work prescribed for discussion, and one work of literary criticism.

Students are advised to read during the preceding long vacation Goethe's

Wilhelm Meister,

Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and as many as possible of the other novels mentioned under (b).

Booxs. (a) Prescribed text-books:

*Steinberg, S.

H.-Fifteen German Poets, from Hölderlin.

George,

Parts III to V. (Macmillan, 1948.)

*Martini,

F. Deutsche

Literaturgeschichte. (Kröпer, Stuttgart, 1954, or any

later ed.) .

*Schneider-Deutsche Kunstprosa. (Available from the Department.)

(b) The following works will form the basis of the course on the German novel (see above Syllabus (iii))

Goethe, J. W.

von.-Wilhelm

Meisters Lehrjahre, (1796).

Novalis-Heinrich

von Ofterdingen.

(1799.)

.

Keller,

G.-Der Griine Heinrich

(1855). .

Stifter,

A.-Der

Nachsommer (1857).

Fontane,

Т .- Еі Briest

(1895).

Mann,

Th.-

Buddenbrooks

(1901).

Kafka,

F.

Das

Schloss

(1926)

.

Remarque, E. 1.-Im Westen nichts Neues (1928).

Döblin, A. Berlin

Alexanderplatz

(1929).

Bö11, H.-Wo warst

du Аdаmy

(1951).

Ledig,

G. Die Stalinorgel

(1955).

Special reference books for the novel course:

Borcherdt, H.

H. Der

Rouan

der

Goethezeit. (Port Verlag, Urach und

Stuttgart,

1949.)

Scheidweiler, P.-Der

Roman der

Romantik. (Berlin, Teubner, 1916.).

Forster, E.

1.

-Aspects

of the Novel.

(Arnold, 1958.)

Pascal, R.-The

German Novel.

(Manchester Univ. Press, 1956.) Mendilow,

A. A.-Time and the Novel.

(Nevil, London, 1952.)

Holthusen, 1.

E. Der

unbehauste Mensch.

Motive

und Probleme

der

modernen Literatur. (Piper, München, 1955.)

Zuckmayer,

C,-Des

Teufels

General.

(Fischer Schulausgabe, Frankfurt a M., 1954.)

Fehse,

W. Deutsche

Erzähler

der

Gegenwart. (Reclam, No. 8262-65/65x.) Wiechert,

E.-

Totenwald. (Rascher, Zürich, 1946.) .

Jahrhundertmitte

-Deutsche

Gedichte

der

Gegenwart. (Wiesbaden, Insel Bücherei, No. 618.)

(d) Recommended for reference (available in General or Depart- mental Libraries)

Gaither,

W.-Die deutsche

Literatur im Mittelalter,

800-1500.

(Metzler, Stutt- gart, 1912, or later ed.)

Schneider,

H.

Heldendichtung, Geistlichendichtung, Ritterdichtung. (Winter, Heidelberg, 1943.)

Bieber; H.-Der Kampf um

die Tradition. Die deutsche

Dichtung im

euro- päischen

Geistesleben. (Epochen der deutschen Lit., Vol. V, Stuttgart, 1928.)

Ziegler, Th.-Die geistigen und sozialen Strömungen Deutschlands im

19. Jahrh.

(Berlin, 1911.)

Brock, W.-An

Introduction to Contemporary Garman Philosophy.

(C.U.P., 1935.)

Lennartz,

F.-Dichter

und Schriftsteller unserer Zeit. (Krönet, Stuttgart, 1959.)

Grenzmann,

W.-Deutsche

Dichtung

der

Gegenwart. (Menck, 1953.) Friedmann, H., and Mann,

O. Deutsche

Literatur im

20.

Jahrhundert.

(Rothe, Heidelberg, 1954.)

Samuel, R. H., and Thomas, R.

H.-Expressionism in German Life

and

Literature and the Theatre, 1910-1924.

(Heffer, Cambridge, 1939.)

Knight, A.

H.-Some Aspects of the Life and Work of Nietzsche. (C.U.P.,

1933.)

Ermatinger-Die

deutsche Lyrik seit Herder,

3 vols. (Teubner, Leipzig, 1925.) Klein, J.-Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik. (Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1960.)

Prawer, S.

S.-German Lyric Poetry. A Critical Analysis of Selected Poems from Klopstock to Rilke.

(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952.)

Wiese, B.

von-Deutsche Lyrik. Interpretationen.

(Bagel, Düsseldorf, 1957.) Kayser,

W.-Kleine deutsche Versschule.

(5th ed., Bonn, Francke Verlag, 1956.) Treue,

W.-Deutsche Geschichte.

(Kгöner, Stuttgart, 1958.)

Mann,

Golo-Deutsche Geschichte des 19. and 20. Jahrh.

(Fischer, Frankfurt, 1958.)

Ward, A.

W.-Germany, 1815-1890.

Vol. III, 1871-1890. (C.U.P.) Passant, E.

S.-A Short History of Germany (1815-1945).

(C.U.P., 1959.) Gooch, G.

P.-Studies

Ge rman- History.

(Longmans, 1948.)

Eyck,

E.-Bismarck. (Esp.

Vol. 3 Rentsch, Zürich, 1946.)

Eyck,

E.-Das persönliche.Regiment Wilhelms II. Politische Geschichte des deutschen Kaiserreiches, 1890-1914.

(Rentsch, Zürich, 1949.)

Scheele,

G.-The Weimar Republic.

(Faber, 1945.)

Eyck,

E.-Geschichte der Weimarer Republik.

(Rentsch, Zürich, 1954.) Jarman, T.

L.-The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany.

(Cresset Press, London,

1956.)

Dehlo,

L.-Deutschland und die Weltpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert.

(Oldenburg, Munich, 1955.)

Mau, H., and Krausnick.-Deutsche

Geschichte der jiingsten Vergangenheit.

(Leins, Tübingen, 1956.)

Press,

H. Die Zerstörung der deutschen Politik. Dokumente 1871-1933.

(Fischer-Bücherei, No. 264.)

Werner, B. E'-Die

Galeere.

(Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1949.) (Novel covering the period 1932-1945.)

Carossa,

1.-Ungleiche Welten.

(Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1951.)

Samuel,. R. H., and Thomas, R.

H.-Education and Society in Modern Ger- many.

(Kegan Paul, 1949.)

Stirk, S.

D.-The Prussian Spirit. A Survey of German Literature and Politics, 1914-1940.

(Faber, 1941.)

Dickinson,

R.-The German Lebensraum.

(Penguin.)

Hofer,

W.-Der Nationalsozialismus. Dokumente 1933-1945.

(Fischer-Bücherei, No. 172.)

Kluge,

F.-Etymalogisches Wörterbuch.

(See Part I.)

ЕхТЁR АL Sтuгws. Country students are required to submit evidence of the progress of their work during the year and should make every effort to discuss once a term in person their work with the lecturers in their respective subjects.

ЕxAMINАТюx. Three 3-hour papers (the first on Stylistic Appreciation and Translation, the second on German Literature afd the third paper being the Essay) oral test of twenty minutes.

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