PAPER 3: THE MIND AND SELF IN LITERATURE (3 hours)
Three of the following texts:
- *Sylvia Plath: selection of poems from Ariel
- William Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book One & Book Two (1805 version)
- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- J M Coetzee: Age of Iron
- Pat Barker: Regeneration
- Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- *Elizabeth Jennings: selection of poems from Selected Poems (Carcanet edition)
- Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
All texts are set for 2022 and 2023.
*Sylvia Plath: selection of poems from Ariel
- Sheep in Fog
- The Applicant
- Lady Lazarus
- Tulips
- Cut
- Elm
- The Night Dances
- Poppies in October
- Ariel
- Death & Co.
- Getting There
- Medusa
- A Birthday Present
- Daddy
- Fever 103°
- Paralytic
- Poppies in July
- Contusion
- Edge
*Elizabeth Jennings: selection of poems from Selected Poems (Carcanet edition)(Selection is different from the one examined from 2018–2020.)
- Beyond Possession
- In the Night
- Old Man
- A Game of Chess
- My Grandmother
- World I have not Made
- To a Friend with a Religious Vocation Sequence in Hospital
- Man in a Park Father to Son Warning to Parents The Young Ones
- A Mental Hospital Sitting-Room The Interrogator
- Night Sister
- Words from Traherne
- On a Friend’s Relapse and Return to a Mental Clinic Night Garden of the Asylum
- Chinese Art
- Love Poem
