En section internationale britannique, le programme limitatif de langue et littérature britanniques des sessions 2020 et 2021 est défini par la note de service n° 2019-164 du 15-11-2019

Session 2020 : épreuve écrite

Le programme limitatif des sections internationales 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)]

Session 2020 : 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.

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).

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) ;

[(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)]

– Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965).

[(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 2021 : 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
)]

Session 2021 : 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.

**
Gothic Writing

[**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).

[**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).

Post-war Writing of the 1950s and 1960s

[**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).

[**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) ;
  • 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)]

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