Session 2022

Pour la session 2022 de l'épreuve écrite, le programme limitatif se compose d'une pièce de théâtre de Shakespeare obligatoire parmi les deux œuvres au choix :

• Othello (New Cambridge edition) ;
• As You Like It (New Cambridge edition) ;

et de deux œuvres relevant chacune d'un genre différent (théâtre, roman, poésie) et choisies dans la liste ci-après :

• Drama: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi; Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; Alan Ayckbourn, Absurd Person Singular;
• Prose fiction: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Virginia Woolf, Orlando; Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale;
• Poetry:

- Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife

Little Red Cap
Thetis
Queen Herod
Mrs. Darwin
Mrs. Sisyphus
Mrs. Faust
Anne Hathaway
Medusa
The Devil's Wife
Salomé
The Kray Sisters
Elvis's Twin Sister
Mrs. Beast
Demeter
Mrs Rip van Winkle
Penelope

- P.B. Shelley, Selected Poems

Ozymandias
Love's Philosophy
Ode to the West Wind
The Masque of Anarchy
Mont Blanc
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
Mutability
England in 1819
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
A Dirge
The Cloud
To Night
The Indian Serenade
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Song to the Men of England
To a Skylark
To the Moon

- Ted Hughes, Crow

Two Legends
Examination at the Womb Door
Crow and Mama
A Childish Prank
Crow's First Lesson
Crow Alights
Crow's Account of the Battle
Crow's Theology
Crow's Fall
Crow and the Birds
Crow on the Beach
In Laughter
Crow Goes Hunting
Crow's Playmates
Crow Blacker Than Ever
Crow Sickened
Apple Tragedy
Crow and the Sea
Lovesong
King of Carrion

Pour la session 2022 de l'épreuve orale, le programme limitatif se compose de l'étude d'un mouvement ou d'un thème littéraire au choix parmi les deux proposés « Gothic Writing » et « Post-war Writing of the 1950s and 1960s ». Chaque mouvement ou thème littéraire est illustré par six poèmes obligatoires ainsi que par d'autres œuvres dont deux textes obligatoires.

1. Gothic Writing

a) Poems: ‘Superstition, an Ode' (Ann Radcliffe, 1790), ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (John Keats, 1819), ‘Alone' (Edgar Allan Poe, 1829), ‘Mariana' (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1830), ‘Porphyria's Lover' (Robert Browning, 1836), ‘One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted' (Emily Dickinson, 1891).

b) Main texts:

Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance (1790), Oxford World's Classics;

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817);

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 edition), Oxford World's Classics;

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890);

Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897);

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979).

2. Post-war Writing of the 1950s and 1960s

a) Poems: ‘The Enemies' (Elizabeth Jennings, 1955), ‘On the Move' (Thom Gunn, 1957), ‘Her Kind' (Anne Sexton, 1960), ‘Wodwo'  (Ted Hughes, 1967), ‘Tonight at Noon' (Adrian Henri, 1967), ‘A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon' (Gary Snyder, 1968).

b) Main texts:

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954);

John Osborne, Look Back In Anger (1956);

Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party (1956);

Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957);

Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings (1964)*;

Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)**.

* Poems set from Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings

Here
Mr Bleaney
Nothing To Be Said
For Sidney Bechet
Home is so Sad
Toads Revisited
The Whitsun Weddings
MCMXIV
Talking in Bed
The Large Cool Store
A Study of Reading Habits
Ambulances
Ignorance
Reference Back
Wild Oats
Essential Beauty
An Arundel Tomb

** Poems set from Sylvia Plath: Ariel

Morning Song
The Applicant
Lady Lazarus
Cut
Ariel
Death & Co
Medusa
The Moon and the Yew Tree
Daddy
You're
Fever 103°
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Stings
Wintering
Years
Words

Session 2023

Pour la session 2023 de l'épreuve écrite, le programme limitatif se compose d'une pièce de théâtre de Shakespeare obligatoire parmi les deux œuvres au choix :

• Othello (New Cambridge edition) ;
• As You Like It (New Cambridge edition) ;

et de deux œuvres relevant chacune d'un genre différent (théâtre, roman, poésie) et choisies dans la liste ci-après :

• Drama: Ben Jonson, The Alchemist; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Alan Ayckbourn, Absurd Person Singular;
• Prose fiction: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Virginia Woolf, Orlando; Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist;
• Poetry:

- Jackie Kay, Darling: New and Selected Poems;

- P.B. Shelley, Selected Poems

Ozymandias
Love's Philosophy
Ode to the West Wind
The Masque of Anarchy
Mont Blanc
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
Mutability
England in 1819
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
A Dirge
The Cloud
To Night
The Indian Serenade
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Song to the Men of England
To a Skylark
To the Moon

- Ted Hughes, Crow

Two Legends
Examination at the Womb Door
Crow and Mama
A Childish Prank
Crow's First Lesson
Crow Alights
Crow's Account of the Battle
Crow's Theology
Crow's Fall
Crow and the Birds
Crow on the Beach
In Laughter
Crow Goes Hunting
Crow's Playmates
Crow Blacker Than Ever
Crow Sickened
Apple Tragedy
Crow and the Sea
Lovesong
King of Carrion

Pour la session 2023 de l'épreuve orale, le programme limitatif se compose de l'étude d'un mouvement ou d'un thème littéraire au choix parmi les deux proposés « Gothic Writing » et « Post-war Writing of the 1950s and 1960s ». Chaque mouvement ou thème littéraire est illustré par six poèmes obligatoires ainsi que par d'autres œuvres dont deux textes obligatoires.

1. Gothic Writing

a) Poems: ‘Superstition, an Ode‘ (Ann Radcliffe, 1790), ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (John Keats, 1819), ‘Alone' (Edgar Allan Poe, 1829), ‘Mariana' (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1830), ‘Porphyria's Lover' (Robert Browning, 1836), ‘One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted' (Emily Dickinson, 1891).

b) Main texts:

Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance (1790): Oxford World's Classics;

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817);

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 edition): Oxford World's Classics;

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890);

Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897);

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979).

2. Post-war Writing of the 1950s and 1960s

a) Poems: ‘The Enemies' (Elizabeth Jennings, 1955), ‘On the Move' (Thom Gunn, 1957), ‘Her Kind' (Anne Sexton, 1960), ‘Wodwo'  (Ted Hughes, 1967), ‘Tonight at Noon' (Adrian Henri, 1967), ‘A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon' (Gary Snyder, 1968).

b) Main texts:

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954);

John Osborne, Look Back In Anger (1956);

Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party (1956);

Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957);

Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings (1964)*;

Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)**.

* Poems set from Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings

Here
Mr Bleaney
Nothing To Be Said
For Sidney Bechet
Home is so Sad
Toads Revisited
The Whitsun Weddings
MCMXIV
Talking in Bed
The Large Cool Store
A Study of Reading Habits
Ambulances
Ignorance
Reference Back
Wild Oats
Essential Beauty
An Arundel Tomb

** Poems set from Sylvia Plath: Ariel

Morning Song
The Applicant
Lady Lazarus
Cut
Ariel
Death & Co
Medusa
The Moon and the Yew Tree
Daddy
You're
Fever 103°
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Stings
Wintering
Years
Words