UNIVERSITATEA SPIRU HARET

FACULTATAEA DE LITERE

TEMATICA ŞI BIBLIOGRAFIA EXAMENULUI DE LICENŢĂ

SESIUNEA IULIE 2017, SEPTEMBRIE 2017, FEBRUARIE 2018
LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ – SPECIALIZAREA A/B

LIMBA ENGLEZǍ CONTEMPORANǍ

MODULUL 1:

A. MORPHOLOGY

VERBAL CATEGORIES: TENSE, ASPECT, MOOD, MODALITY

TENSE ─ Semantic descriptions of the Tenses of the Indicative (absolute and

contextual values)
- Present Tense Simple, Present Tense Progressive, Simple Past,
Past Progressive, Present Perfect Simple, Present Perfect Progressive,
Past Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Progressive
─ Means of expressing futurity in English
ASPECT ─ Tense versus Aspect
─ BE-progressive and aspectual classes: recategorisation
─ The perfective aspect in English
MOOD ─ The Indicative versus the Subjunctive: factual versus non-factual
─ The Subjunctive Mood in English (forms, meaning, distribution and use)
- The ‘synthetic’ Subjunctive (values and distribution)
- The ‘analytical’ Subjunctive (values and distribution)
─ Classes of matrix verbs and adjectives in matrix clause that trigger the use of the
Subjunctive
MODALITY ─ Morphological and syntactic behaviour of Modal Verbs
─ Epistemic and deontic classification of modals in English
(CAN, COULD, MUST, MAY, MIGHT, SHALL, SHOULD, WILL, WOULD, OUGHT
TO, NEED, DARE)

BIBLIOGRAFIE
Obligatorie
- Crăiniceanu, I. (2007) Elements of English Morphology, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei
“România de Mâine”
- Duţescu-Coliban, T. (2000) Aspects of English Morphology, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei
“România de Mâine”, p. 150-243

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English
MODULUL II:

A. THE SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: TYPOLOGY OF PREDICATIONS IN

ENGLISH (Verb Subcategorisation)

─ SENTENCE STRUCTURE (constituents and functions)

─ VERB PHRASE STRUCTURE (constituents and functions)
─ SUBCATEGORISATION OF THE VERB (according to its complements and its argument structure):
intransitive verbs
transitive verbs

─ COPULATIVE PREDICATION
- Status of the verb to be
- The predicative – syntactic and logico-semantic classifications
─ INTRANSITIVE PREDICATIONS:
- simple intransitive verbs (unaccusatives and unergatives)
- intransitive verbs with indirect or prepositional object;
- complex intransitives (“phrasal verbs”) with adverbial particle and/or preposition;
- relational intransitives (verbs of possession, reciprocal verbs);
- intransitives with adverbials.
─ TRANSITIVE PREDICATIONS:
- Monotransitives with direct “affected” object and/or “effected” object;
- other subcategories of monotransitives (with direct instrumental object, locative, experiencer, etc).
- Ditransitives (verbs with double direct object, dative, with prepositional object).
- Possibilities of passivisation.
- Logico-semantic and syntactic classification of basic and derivative causative verbs.
- VERBS WITH A DOUBLE REGIME – subcategory of ergatives.
- Recategorisation of transitive and intransitive verbs.

BIBLIOGRAFIE

BIBLIOGRAFIE OBLIGATORIE/MINIMALĂ:

1. Serban, D., The Syntax of English Predications, Ed. FundaŃiei România de Mâine, 2006
2. Cornilescu, A., English Complementation: A Minimalist Perspective, EUB, 2003
3. Quirk, R., Greenbaum, S., Svartvik, J., A Grammar of Contemporary English, Longman Group Ltd., 1972
4. Şerban, D., Drăguşin D., Haţăgan R., English Syntax Workbook, Ed. Fundaţiei România de
Mâine, 2005

BIBLIOGRAFIE FACULTATIVĂ:

1. Cornilescu, A., Concepts of Modern Grammar, UB, 1995

2. Avram L., English Syntax. The Structure of Root Clauses, Oscar Print, 2003
3. Haegeman, L., Gueron, J., English Grammar, A Generativist Perspective, T.J. International, Padstow,
Cornwall, 1999

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English
MODULUL III

A. THE SYNTAX OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCE

- SUBORDINATION BY RELATIVIZATION
- The mechanism of subordination by Relativization
- The classification of Relative Clauses
- Restrictive Relative Clauses
- Non-restrictive Relative Clauses
- Free Relative Clauses
- SUBORDINATION BY COMPLEMENTATION
THAT CLAUSES
- General characteristics; (THAT Clauses as “abstract nominals”; THAT Clauses as
Complement Phrases)
- Distribution and classes of verbs subcategorising for THAT Clauses
- Extraposed Clauses; Expletive IT
INFINITIVE CLAUSES
- General characteristics
- The status of FOR as a Complementizer and of TO as Inflection
- The Subject of the Infinitive Clause (Overt and non-overt Subjects of Infinitive Clauses –
various interpretations)
- Indefiniteness of the Subject
- Subject and Object control; the Null Subject PRO; Control Predicates
- Raising Predicates
- FOR-TO Infinitive Clauses and PRO Clauses; syntactic functions
- Raising patterns – various interpretations
- The Nominative + Infinitive Construction; classes of triggers
- The Accusative + Infinitive Construction; classes of triggers

BIBLIOGRAFIE

BIBLIOGRAFIE OBLIGATORIE/MINIMALĂ:
1. Cornilescu, A., English Syntax, Volume 2, Editura Universităţii Bucureşti, 1982
2. Cornilescu, A., Concepts of Modern Grammar, UB, 1995
3. Serban, D., The Syntax of English Predications, Ed. Fundatiei România de Mâine, 2006

BIBLIOGRAFIE FACULTATIVĂ:
1. Jacobs, Roderick, A., English Syntax. A Grammar for English Language Professionals, Oxford University
Press, 1995
2. Haegeman, L., Gueron, J., English Grammar, A Generativist Perspective, T.J. International, Padstow,
Cornwall, 1999
3. Radford Andrew, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1990

BIBLIOGRAFIE SUPLIMENTARĂ:
1. Chomsky, Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris Publications, 1982
2. Cornilescu, A., Complementation in English, Editura Universităţii Bucureşti, 2003
3. Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech, J. Svartvik, A Grammar of Contemporary English, Longman Group
Ltd., 1972

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English
ENGLISH LITERATURE

MODULUL I:

A. DRAMA

William Shakespeare – Hamlet. Critical interpretations. Hamlet as political / domestic tragedies.

Plot and characters. Marginal characters in the play.

William Shakespeare – The Tempest. Critical interpretations: traditional, postcolonial, New-

Historicist readings of the play. Plot and characters. Similarities in point of theme with A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (fathers and daughters, essence and appearance, manipulation through
illusion). Marginal characters in the play.

William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Critical interpretation. Shakespeare’s

fictional geography. Women’s role in a patriarchal society. Similarities with The Tempest. Plot and
characters. Marginal characters in the play.

George Bernard Shaw – The Devil’s Disciple. Context and social background of the play. Themes,
plot and characters.

BIBLIOGRAFIE MINIMALĂ:

George Volceanov et al. – Lectures on Classical English Literature, Editura Fundatiei Romania de
Maine, 2007.
George Volceanov – „Despre razbunare si iertare prin magie si piraterie”, Prefata la Furtuna, in W.
Shakespeare, Opere, Vol. 1, Editura Paralela 45, 2010.
George Volceanov – „De trei ori Hamlet”, Prefata la Hamlet, in W. Shakespeare, Opere, Vol. 2,
Editura Paralela 45, 2010.
Odette Blumenfeld – Prefata la Vis de-o noapte-n miezul verii, in W. Shakespeare, Opere, Vol. 4,
Editura Paralela 45, 2011.
Andrew Sanders – The Short Oxford History of English Literature / Scurta istorie Oxford a
literaturii engleze (orice editie disponibila).

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English
MODULUL II

A. FICTION (THE NOVEL)

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea

Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49

The plot as synthesis among character, action and thought. Narrative techniques and narrative
speed: telling, showing, ellipsis. Types of narrator. Point of view. Time and space in the novel. The
difference between story and plot. Characterization. The themes of the aforementioned novels.

BIBLIOGRAFIE MINIMALĂ:

George Volceanov et al. – Lectures on Classical English Literature, Editura Fundatiei Romania de
Maine, 2007.
Florin Pitea – ... Editura Fundatiei Romania de Maine...
Wayne C. Booth – The Rhetoric of Fiction / Retorica romanului (orice editie disponibila).

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English
MODULUL III

A. POETRY

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18, 66, 130

George Gordon Byron – She Walks in Beauty; Stanzas for Music

John Keats – La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Edgar Allan Poe – Annabel Lee

William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium

William Carlos Williams – The Red Wheelbarrow

Ezra Pound – In A Station of the Metro

Dylan Thomas – Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Theodore Roethke – In A Dark Time

The students are to prepare the text analysis of the aforementioned poems, refering to: poetic genre,
theme(s), key words, figures of speech, types of images, the stylistic dominant of the analyzed
poem, elements of prosody (strophic structure, meter, line, rhythm, rhyming pattern).

BIBLIOGRAFIE MINIMALA:

George Volceanov et al. – English Poetry up to 1830, Editura Fundatiei Romania de Maine, 2007.
Liviu Andreescu – A Thematic Introduction to Twentieth-Century British and American Poetry,
Second Edition, Editura Fundatiei Romania de Maine, 2011.
Andrew Sanders – The Short Oxford History of English Literature / Scurta istorie Oxford a
literaturii engleze (orice editie disponibila).

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English
ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

BIBLIOGRAFIE OBLIGATORIE/MINIMALĂ:
• Lupu, Janeta, 2006: English Practical Course Workbook, ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine
• Şerban, D., Drăguşin, D., 2007: English Practical Course for Second Year Students, ed. Fundaţiei
România de Mâine
• Lupu, J., Buzea, O., Birtalan, A., 2007: English Practical Course for First Year Students, ed. Fundaţiei
România de Mâine
• Bădescu, A., 1963: Gramatica Limbii Engleze, ed. ştiinţifică, Buc.;
• Gălăţeanu-Fârnoagă, G., E. Comişel, 1995: Gramatica Limbii Engleze, ed. Omegapress, Buc.;
• Leviţchi, L., 1994: Gramatica Limbii Engleze, ed. Teora, Buc.;
• Şerban, D., Drăguşin, D., 2004: English Syntax Workbook, ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine
• Vianu, L., 2003: English With a Key, ed. Teora, Buc.;

BIBLIOGRAFIE FACULTATIVĂ:
• Graver, G.B., 1994: Advanced English Practice, Oxford University Press
• Wellman, Guy 1998: Wordbuilder, Heineman

BIBLIOGRAFIE SUPLIMENTARĂ:
• Collins Cobuild, 1990, English Grammar, Harper Collins Publishers, London
• Evans, V., 1998, Successful Writing Proficiency, Express Publishing
• Jordan, R.R., 1980, Academic Writing Course, Collins ELT
• Lott, H., 2005, Real English Grammar, Marshall Cavendish
• Murphy, R. 1994: English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press
• Swan, M. and D. Baker, 2008, Grammar Scan, Oxford University Press
• Vince, M.,2003: Advanced Language Practice, Macmillan

• Dicţionare:
Leviţchi, L. Dicţionar Român-Englez, ediţia a VII-a, 2000, Gramar, Bucureşti
Longman Activator, Cambridge, 1995
Oxford Advanced Learner, 1995, OUP
Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, 1993, OUP
Cambridge Advanced Leraner’s, CUP, 2008
The Penguin English Dictionary (Dicţionar explicativ al limbii engleze), 2005, Litera Internaţional
Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, 1994, Gramercy Books
Webster’s Synonyms, Antonyms and Homonyms, 1994, Crescent Books

• Surse internet:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/mco/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/mco/ml07.htm
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http://tehnicasitehnologie.scienceline.ro/Tehnica_si_tehnologie_545_1.html)