Pour la session 2020 de l'épreuve écrite, le programme limitatif se compose d'une œuvre obligatoire pour chaque genre (théâtre, roman, poésie) parmi les trois œuvres proposées :

- Drama : William Congreve, The Way of the World ; Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ; Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ;

- Prose fiction : Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility ; Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending ; Rose Tremain, The Road Home ;

- Poetry :

- Ezra Pound, Selected Poems (Faber edition) 

From ‘Ripostes', 1912 : Portrait d'une Femme ; The Seafarer. From ‘Lustra' : The Garden ; Salutation ; Salutation the Second ; Commission ; The Bath Tub ; In a Station of the Metro. From ‘Cathay' : The River-Merchant's Wife : a Letter ; Lament of the Frontier Guard ; The City of Choan. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (parts IV and V). Canto I ; Canto CXVI.

- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics edition)

Stanzas for Music (‘I speak not - I trace not - I breathe not thy name') ; They Say that Hope is Happiness ; Stanzas for Music (‘There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away') ; She walks in beauty ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; Fare thee well! Darkness ; So, we'll go no more a-roving ; From Beppo, stanzas 1-14, 41-52 ; From Don Juan: Dedication ; Canto 1, stanzas 75-119, 192-8 ; Messalonghi, January 22nd, 1824, ‘On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year'

- Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

The Shrug of Jah

Establishing the Metre

What the Mapmaker Ought to Know

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion:

i in which the cartographer explains himself

ii in which the rastaman disagrees

iv

vi

vii

viii

x in which the cartographer asks for directions

xiv

xvi in which every song is singing Zion

Place Name: Shotover

xix

xx in which the cartographer tells off the rastaman

Place Name: Edinburgh Castle

xxi

When Considering the Long, Long Journey of 28,000 Rubber Ducks

xxv

In Praise of Maps

xxvi in which the rastaman gives a sermon

xxvii in which the rastaman says a benediction

Pour la session 2020 de l'épreuve orale, le programme limitatif se compose :

- d'une pièce de théâtre de Shakespeare obligatoire parmi les trois œuvres au choix :

Much Ado About Nothing, New Cambridge edition ;

Henry V, New Cambridge edition ;

The Tempest, New Cambridge edition ;

- 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

Pour la session 2021 de l'épreuve écrite, le programme limitatif se compose 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 ; Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ;

- Prose fiction : Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility ; Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending ; 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

- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics edition)

Stanzas for Music (‘I speak not - I trace not - I breathe not thy name') ;They Say that Hope is Happiness; Stanzas for Music (‘There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away') ; She walks in beauty ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; Fare thee well! ; Darkness ; So, we'll go no more a-roving ; From Beppo, stanzas 1-14, 41-52 ; From Don Juan: Dedication ; Canto 1, stanzas 75-119, 192-8 ; Messalonghi, January 22nd, 1824, ‘On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year'

- Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

The Shrug of Jah

Establishing the Metre

What the Mapmaker Ought to Know

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion:

i in which the cartographer explains himself

ii in which the rastaman disagrees

iv

vi

vii

viii

x in which the cartographer asks for directions

xiv

xvi in which every song is singing Zion

Place Name: Shotover

xix

xx in which the cartographer tells off the rastaman

Place Name: Edinburgh Castle

xxi

When Considering the Long, Long Journey of 28,000 Rubber Ducks

xxv

In Praise of Maps

xxvi in which the rastaman gives a sermon

xxvii in which the rastaman says a benediction

Pour la session 2021 de l'épreuve orale, le programme limitatif se compose :

- d'une pièce de théâtre de Shakespeare obligatoire parmi les deux œuvres au choix :

Henry V, New Cambridge edition ;

The Tempest, New Cambridge edition ;

- 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