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MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES TRIPOS Part IB and Part II

HISTORY AND MODERN LANGUAGES TRIPOS Part IB and Part II
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Released at 9am on Thursday 26 May 2022.

There is a series of staggered submission deadlines for scheduled papers.

The order in which you submit your work is up to you.

Unless you have already been granted permission to skip a tranche:

● Your first scheduled paper will be due for submission at 16:00 on the
30th May 2022 (the end of tranche 1).
● Your second scheduled paper will be due for submission at 16:00 on
the 2nd June 2022 (the end of tranche 2).
● Your third (if any) scheduled paper will be due for submission at 16:00
on the 7th June 2022 (the end of tranche 3)

For students who have been given permission to skip tranche(s) and need to
use tranche 4, all remaining scheduled papers will be due for submission at
16:00 on the 10th June 2022 (the end of tranche 4).
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Paper SL.13
INTRODUCTION TO THE LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF
POLAND

Section A (translation) is to be completed separately, in timed conditions.

Candidates for Part IB:

Answer two questions, one from each section. Write between 1,200-1,300
words.

Candidates for Part II:

Answer two questions, one from each section. Write no more than 1,500
words.

Candidates for this paper may not draw substantially on material from their
dissertations or material which they have used or intend to use in another
scheduled paper. Candidates may not draw substantially on the same
material in more than one question on the same paper.
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SECTION B

2 ‘In various lyrical works, Jan Kochanowski shows that the meaning of a
poem lies above all in its form.’
Discuss with reference to two or more texts.

3 ‘Jan Pasek’s Pamiętniki reveals that the supposed tolerance of the

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is a myth.’
Discuss.

4 ‘In Polish culture, the development of the Romantic movement –

especially in literature – is inseparable from the historical context of lost
independence.’
Discuss with reference to two or more texts by Adam Mickiewicz.

5 ‘Late-nineteenth-century Polish prose writing often does not fit neatly

under the label of “Positivism”.’
Discuss with reference to two or more texts.

6 ‘Stanisław Wyspiański’s play Wesele mixes realism and symbolism in

order to comment on Poland’s past and present.’
Discuss.
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SECTION C

7 ‘Bruno Schulz’s writing is rich in metaphor and hyperbole, which

function to create an atmosphere of dreamlike excess and unreality in his
stories.’
Discuss with reference to two or more stories.

8 ‘Polish writing about the period of the Second World War uses various
literary techniques to bring the reader as close as possible to the experience
of traumatic events.’
Discuss with reference to one or more works.

9 ‘In Polish poetry there is always a dialogue between the individual and
the collective, the individual and history.’ (A. ZAGAJEWSKI)
Discuss with reference to works by two or more poets.

10 ‘The 1950s war films of Andrzej Wajda are highly ambiguous in their
meaning, despite the rigid ideological requirements of the time.’
Discuss with reference to two or more films.

11 ‘Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Prawiek i inne czasy explores the

confrontation between a traditional society and different forms of modernity.’
Discuss.

12 ‘Paweł Pawlikowski’s film Ida shows different ways in which the

memory of historical events can be repressed.’
Discuss.

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