Engleza B

Universitatea ‘Babes-Bolyai’ Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Litere
Catedra de limba si literatura engleza
Anul universitar 2009 - 2010
Semestrul: II
Anul de studii/specializarea: anul I (engleza B)
I. Informatii generale despre curs
Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza contemporana – Structura gramaticala a limbii

engleze
Codul: LE 11221
Numarul de credite: 5
Locul de desfasurare: Facultatea de Litere, conform orarului
II. Informatii despre titularul de curs
Nume, titlul stiintific: Chira Dorin, conferentiar dr.

Informatii de contact: d_chira@msn.com; tel. 0264-410016
Ore de audienta: 2, cab. M4
III. Descrierea disciplinei
The numerous meanings of the term ‘grammar’ often lead to misunderstandings. The
term is used to refer to any book written about a language. Within traditional linguistics,
this term is used to distinguish a field of language study from other fields, such as
lexicology and phonology; in this sense, the term ‘grammar’ is said to be composed of
morphology and syntax. Very often people identify grammar with morphology (it is
easier to observe the forms of the words rather than the structure of the sentence). For
other people grammar is a matter of ‘right’ or ‘wrong’; it can also be a matter of ‘right’
and ‘right’: a choice between two or more grammatical ways of expressing something,
depending on the meaning intended. The term also designates the description of a
language, i.e. the linguistic aspects that distinguish it from other language; it is in this
sense that we use the term ‘grammar’. The course is designed to give a detailed
description of the main lexical categories of the English language: noun, determiner,
modifier, pronoun, verb, adverb. Its main purpose is to teach students to observe, analyse
and interpret language phenomena. While dealing with theoretical questions, the course
also tries to provide practical work for all the topics discussed. Some tasks focus on
terminology, which is important for academic students; needless to say, it is also a useful
aid to the overall understanding of the grammatical structure of the language.
By the end of the course students should be able to: explain each area of grammar clearly
and concisely; use traditional and familiar descriptions, taking into account modern
research into grammar; pay attention to areas where errors are commonly made;
understand some concepts and terms related to the field of study; understand the relations
that hold among various grammatical word classes, categories; apply their knowledge
practically.
IV. Bibliografie obligatorie
Alexander, L.G. 1988, Longman English Grammar, Harlow: Longman

Greenbaum, S. and Quirk, R. 1990, A Student’s Grammar of the English Grammar,
Harlow: Longman.
Leech, G. Meaning and the English Verb, Harlow: Longman.
Quirk, R. and Greenbaum, S. 1973, A University Grammar of English, Harlow:
Longman.
Parlog, H. 1995, The English Noun Phrase, Timisoara: Hestia.
Swan, M. 1980, Practical English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zdrenghea, M. and Greere, A. 1999, A Practical English Grammar, Cluj-Napoca:
Clusium.
Lucrarile indicate in lista bibliografica pot fi consultate de catre studenti la biblioteca de

limba engleza a Facultatii de Litere, la British Council Library, la BCU. Studentii pot
studia si materialele xerox oferite de titularul de curs.
VI. Planificarea/Calendarul intilnirilor
1. The Noun (weeks: 1, 2)

Noun classes. Number. Gender. Case.
Key concepts: noun, noun phrase, abstract noun, antecedent, case, clause, countable,
double genitive, head, gender, number, phrase, quantifier, referent, reference,
uncountable.
Bibliography:
1. Alexander, L.G. 1988, Longman English Grammar, Harlow: Longman
2. Quirk, R. and Greenbaum, S. 1973, A University Grammar of English, Harlow:
Longman.
3. Parlog, H. 1995, The English Noun Phrase, Timisoara: Hestia.
4. Swan, M. 1980, Practical English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5.Zdrenghea, M. and Greere, A. 1999, A Practical English Grammar, Cluj-Napoca:
Clusium.
2. Determiners (weeks: 3, 4)
The article. The definite article. The indefinite article. The zero article.
The pronoun as a determiner. The Possessive pronoun. The demonstrative pronoun. The
interrogative pronoun. The indefinite pronoun.
Key concepts: anaphoric, article, cataphoric, deictic, determiner, definite, generic,
indefinite, post-determiner, pre-determiner, pronoun, quantifier, reference, zero article.
Bibliography:
Longman.
5. Zdrenghea, M. and Greere, A. 1999, A Practical English Grammar, Cluj-Napoca:
Clusium.
3. Modifiers (week: 5, 6)
Pre-modifiers. The adjective as pre-modifier. Adjective classes. The comparison of
adjectives.
The adverb as pre-modifier. Other pre-modifiers. Multiple pre-modification. Post-
modifiers.
Key concepts: apposition, attributive, comparison, finite, gradable, modifier, non-finite,
non- gradable, post-modifier, predicative, pre-modifier.
Bibliography:
Clusium.
4. Noun and Noun Phrase Substitutes (week: 7)

The pronoun as noun or noun phrase substitute. The personal pronoun. The possessive
pronoun. The –self pronouns. The reciprocal pronoun. The demonstrative pronoun. The
relative pronoun. The interrogative pronoun. The indefinite pronoun.
Key concepts: dummy word, existential ‘there’, empty word.
Bibliography:
Longman.
Clusium.
5. Simple Present and Past Tenses (week: 8)

Simple present. Simple past.
Key concepts: aspect, auxiliary, causative, event verb, intransitive, state verb, tense,
transitive, unrestrictive, verb, verb phrase.
Bibliography:
2. Leech, G. Meaning and the English Verb, Harlow: Longman.
Clusium.
6. The Expression of Past Time (weeks: 9, 10)

Present perfect tense. Present perfect and simple past. Past perfect. Perfect progressive.
Future in the past.
Key concepts: definite/indefinite past, habitual, resultative past, event verb, state verb.
Bibliography:
2. Greenbaum, S. and Quirk, R. 1990, A Student’s Grammar of the English Grammar,
Harlow: Longman.
Longman.
Clusium.
7. The Expression of Future Time (week: 11)

‘Will’ and ‘shall’. ‘Be going to’. Present progressive with future meaning. Simple present
with Future Meaning. Other methods of referring to the future.
Bibliography:
Longman.
Clusium.
8. Modal Auxiliaries (weeks: 12, 13)

Can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would. Modal auxiliaries in questions.
Modal auxiliaries and negation. Modal auxiliaries in relation to tense and aspect.
Key concepts: deontic, epistemic, modality, mood, proposition.
Bibliography:
Swan, M. 1980, Practical English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Clusium.
4. Zdrenghea, M. and Hoye, L. 1995, Modal Verbs and Modal Expressions in English,
Cluj-Napoca: Clusium.
9. Theoretical and Hypothetical Meaning (week 14)

The Subjunctive mood. Conditional sentences. Hypothetical Use of modal auxiliaries.
Key concepts: factual, theoretical, hypothetical meaning; truth commitment, truth
neutrality.
Bibliography:
Longman.
Clusium.
10.The Adverb (week 15)

Comparison of adverbs. Semantic classification. Order of adverbs.
Key concepts: adverb, adverb phrase, degree adverb, frequency adverb, intensifier,
manner adverb, restrictive adverb, time adverb.
Bibliography:
2. Greenbaum, S. and Quirk, R. 1990, A Student’s Grammar of the English Grammar,
Harlow: Longman.
Longman.
Clusium.
VII. Modul de evaluare

Pentru obtinerea creditelor acordate acestui curs:
- studentii vor sustine un examen scris la care trebuie sa obtina minim nota 5 (cinci).
- nota obtinuta (minim5) la examenul scris este 2/3 din nota finala
- nota obtinuta (minim 5) la cursul practic este 1/3 din nota finala
- nota finala se calculeaza astfel: (nota curs + nota curs + nota curs practic) : 3
VIII. Detalii organizatorice
- prezenta la cursuri nu este obligatorie si nu conditioneaza prezenta la examen
- prezenta la seminarii este obligatorie in proportie de 75%
- frauda la examen se pedepseste conform regulamentelor in vigoare
- lucrarile pot fi vazute de catre studenti in ziua afisarii rezultatelor sau in timpul orelor
de consultatii
- frauda (copiat) la examenul scris se pedepseste cu notarea lucrarii cu nota 1 (unu) si
propunerea de exmatriculare a studentului/studentei
IX. Bibliografie optionala
Allsop, J. 1989, Making Sense of English Grammar, London: Cassell.

Chalker, S. 1984, Current English Grammar, London: Macmillan.
Close, R.A. 1975, A Reference Grammar for Students of English, Harlow: Longman.
Hulban, H. 2004, Syntheses in English Morphology, Iasi: Spada.
Leech, G. and Svartvik, J. 1975, A Communicative Grammar of English, Harlow:
Longman.
Murphy, R. 1985, English Grammar in Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sinclair, J. (ed.) 1990, Collins Cobuild English Grammar, London: Collins.
Thomson, A.J. and Martinet, A.V. 1986, A Practical English Grammar, Oxford: OUP.
Zdrenghea, M. and Hoye, L. 1995, Modal Verbs and Modal Expressions in English, Cluj-
Napoca: Clusium.
Lucrarile indicate in lista bibliografica pot fi consultate de catre studenti la biblioteca de

limba engleza a Facultatii de Litere, la British Council Library, la BCU. Studentii pot
studia si materialele xerox oferite de titularul de curs.
Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular de curs,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Dorin Chira
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Anul universitar 2009-2010
Semestrul 1
I. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Titlul disciplinei: Practical course in Text Interpretation

Codul: LE 11221
Numărul de credite: 0
Locul de desfăşurare:
Programarea în orar a activităţilor:
II. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Mihálycsa Erika

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail): mihalycsa@yahoo.com
Ore de audienţă:
III. Descrierea disciplinei:

This practical course uses a reader-response-oriented approach to a number of short
stories considered representative of modernist short fiction. It focuses on short stories in
order to provide a better and easier access to texts for students in order to work with a
number of orientations in poststructuralist literary criticism. The authors selected are
canonic writers from the first half of the twentieth century as well as contemporary
authors, allowing both for an introduction to modernist writing and a detailed study of the
short story as a genre. It actively involves students in the process of reading, developing
their interpretive competence and offering them a point of departure in the use of
contemporary critical discourses. As an approach, it is fundamentally based on several
versions of reader-response theory which it follows and contextualises historically and
which it grounds in the close reading of the texts.
Obiective:
 familiarizing students with the practice and language of literary interpretation:
reading and contextualising a fictional text
 discussing short story conventions in the first half of the 20 th century: from
realism to high modernism
 providing general information about the authors to be studied and other works by
them
Competente:
 acquiring the ability to interpret a fictional text
 knowing and manipulating critical language and terms
 understanding of literary conventions that are specific to short stories
 contextualising the short story within the frames of the literary conventions of the
20th century
 producing coherent and argumentative discourses on the studied texts
Metode:
 interactive discussion of texts
 close reading
 class debates
 explaining and discussing the theoretical frame provided by the secondary reading
list
 individual and group presentations on topics provided by the course tutor
 eliciting personal reactions and answers to specific questions
IV. Bibliografia obligatorie:

James Joyce – “Araby”
D. H. Lawrence – “The Prussian Officer”
E. M. Forster – “The Celestial Omnibus”
James Joyce – “The Dead”
Virginia Woolf – “Kew Gardens”
John Fowles – “The Enigma”
Doris Lessing – “To Room 19”
Julian Barnes – “The Stowaway” in A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Angela Carter – “Peter and the Woolf”
Salman Rushdie – “The Courter”
V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: hand-

outs, images, Power-Point presentations produced by the course tutor.
VI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 1: introductory class – presenting objectives and requirements; introducing the

general theoretical frame of the practical course, authors and texts to be studied and
methods or critical trends to be used.
Week 2:
Topic: the inscribed reader: structuralist poetics – James Joyce, ‘Araby’
Key words: modernism, modernity, structure, form, formalism, genre, plot, story,
narrative strategies.
Students’ tasks: reading the text, contributing to class debates.
Week 3:
Topic: the inscribed reader: structuralist poetics – Virginia Woolf, ‘Kew Gardens’
Key words: convention, defamiliarisation, syntagmatic, paradigmatic, codes, readerly,
writerly.
Week 4:
Topic: the inscribed reader: structuralist poetics – E.M. Forster, ‘The Celestial Omnibus’
Key words: literary competence, interpretive conventions, normativity, poetic message,
poetics
Week 5:
Topic: reader-response and affective poetics. James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ (I)
Key words: subjective, objective, informed reader, intentionalism, affective, fallacy
Week 6:
Topic: reader-response and affective poetics. James Joyce, ‘The Dead’ (II)
Key words: spatial/temporal, binary divisions, dialectics.
Week 7:
Topic: reader-response and affective poetics. John Fowles, ‘The Enigma’
Key words: interpretive community, interpretive strategies, communication, textual
identity.
Week 8:
Topic: transactive criticism. D.H. Lawrence, ‘The Prussian Officer’
Key words: psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical criticism, textual unconscious
Week 9:
Topic: transactive criticism. Doris Lessing, ‘To Room 19’
Key words: ambiguity, overdetermination, multiplicity of meanings, coherence
Week 10:
Topic: transactive criticism. Julian Barnes, ‘The Stowaway’, in A History of the World in
10 ½ Chapters
Key words: transformation, aesthetic pleasure, identity, transaction, transactive criticism.
Week 11
Topic: the act of reading and the aesthetics of reception. James Joyce, ‘An Encounter’
Key words: gap, blank, indeterminacies, theme-and-horison
Week 12
Topic: the act of reading and the aesthetics of reception. Julian Barnes, ‘Knowing
French’, in The Lemon Table
Key words: text-reader interaction, implied reader, implied author
Week 13
Topic: the act of reading and the aesthetics of reception. Salman Rushdie, ‘The Courter’,
in East, West
Key words: reader’s wandering viewpoint, literature as act of communication
Students’ tasks: 1) reading the text, contributing to class debates
2) final paper submission.
Week 14: conclusions and feed-back.
VII. Modul de evaluare: (“continuous assessment”): the final grade consists of:
- the score of a quiz test, to be taken during the semester (20%)
- a final paper, delivered at the end of the semester (60%)
- class attendance and participation. (20%)
Paper requirements: the final paper should include an analysis of a studied text from one
of the critical perspectives studied. Although personal contribution is strongly
encouraged, use of additional sources is allowed and even recommended.
VIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Attendance: students are expected to attend at least 60 % of the classes delivered. Missed
classes may be compensated by extra-work, but not if there are more than 50%! Failure
to meet attendance requirements automatically results in failure to pass. Plagiarism of
any kind (be it from the internet or the library) will also automatically lead to the
student’s failure to pass.
IX. Bibliografia opţională:
 Bradbury, Malcolm, McFarlane, James, eds.: Modernism: A Guide to European
Literature, 1890-1930, Penguin Books, London, 1991
 Levanson, Michael, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1999
 Reid, Jan: The Short Story, Routledge, London & New York, 199 4
 Rivkin, Julie, Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology, Blackwell, Oxford,
2004.

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. dr. Mihalycsa Erika
Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic traduceri/Practical Course in Translations

Codul: LE 11221
Locul de desfăşurare: cf. orar
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: cf. orar
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Asist. drd. Octavian More

Informaţii de contact: tavimore@yahoo.co.uk
Ore de audienţă: Miercuri, 12 - 14

Acest curs practic se adreseaza celor care doresc sa isi imbunatateasca deprinderile de
folosire a limbii engleze prin traduceri bazate pe texte de diverse tipuri, sub forma unor
sesiuni de lucru la nivel avansat. Ca atare, el se bazeaza pe informatia si cunostintele
dobandite de pe urma altor cursuri de limba oferite prin programa. Desi accentul principal
este pus pe aspecte ce tin de aplicarea contrastiva a limbilor engleza si romana, scopul
acestui curs nu este limitat exclusiv la probleme de natura lingvistica, facandu-se recurs
la analiza unor probleme pertinente de ordin textual si literar, ori de cte ori este necesar.
In acest scop, aceste sesiuni de lucru au in vedere in mod constant angajarea unor metode
si tehnici interdisciplinare. Textele selectate acopera o varietate de stiluri si registre,
pentru a putea oferi astfel o ilustrare detaliata a problemelor dificile implicate in tehnica
traducerii.
This practical course addresses all those who wish to test and improve their skills in
handling English as a foreign language through translation practice on miscellaneous
texts. It has been devised as an advanced-level series of ‘workshops’, being reliant on
information and knowledge provided via most of the language courses students attend in
parallel. Although the main focus is on issues pertaining to the contrastive application of
English and Romanian, the scope of this course is not entirely limited to linguistic
problems, recourse being made to the analysis of some pertinent textual and literary
aspects whenever the case. To this end, these ‘workshops’ will constantly have in view
the engaging of interdisciplinary methods and techniques. The choice of texts cover a
variety of styles and registers in an attempt to offer an extensive illustration of the
contending topics involved in translation.
Dat fiind tipicul acestui curs, nu se impune consultarea unor surse bibliografice. Textele
care urmeaza a fi traduse la curs for fi puse la dispozitia studentilor sub forma de
fotocopii, de catre titularul cursului.
V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

handout-uri, fotocopii

intermediare:
1. Introduction and course description. Preview of study materials. The question of

back-up sources. Translation tools. Placement test.
2. Language practice: vocabulary building. Collocations. Analogies and contrasts
of meaning I. Styles and registers.
3. The language of the media I: newspaper articles. Elliptical structures I: minor
sentences and block language. Illustration. Translation practice: English into
Romanian; Romanian into English.
4. Language practice: vocabulary building. Collocations II. Analogies and
contrasts of meaning II. Phrasal verbs. Idioms I.
5. The language of the media II: miscellaneous advertisements and commercials.
The newsflash. Translation practice: English into Romanian; Romanian into English.
6. Language practice: elliptical structures in consistent textual units.
Recoverability. Illustration. Practice.
7. Mid-term test
8. The language of science. Introduction to specialised texts: reports, documentaries,
essays, etc. Problems of style and register. Translation practice. Language practice:
idioms II
9. The language of sports. Sample texts. Special grammatical units. Problems of
rendering. Translation practice.
10. The language of business. Formal vs. informal. Specialised constructions.
Problems of rendering. Translation practice.
11. Figurative language I. Problems related to the translation of the literary text.
Controlled practice.
12. Figurative language II. Problems related to the translation of the literary text.
Controlled practice.
13. Term-end test
14. Overview and concluding discussions. Final assessment
VII. Modul de evaluare:

- prezenta 15%
- participare activa 15%
- 2 lucrari semestriale (teste) 35% / lucrare
Pentru a obtine calificativul admis (nota 5), studentii trebuie sa cumuleze minim 50%
din punctajul maxim pentru lucrarile semestriale.
- prezenta obligatorie in procent de 75% din numarul de ore/semestru

- recuperarea cursurilor se face prin efectuarea de teme si activitati suplimentare, in
urma consultarii cu titularul cursului
- plagiatul (asumarea ideilor altora drept contributie proprie, copierea unor lucrari
intregi sau paragrafe de la colegi) se penalizeaza cu 2 puncte din nota finala si
obligativitatea rescrierii lucrarii/temei in cauza
- orice contestaţie a notei obţinute va trebui însoţită de o cerere din partea studentului
pentru reevaluarea lucrării. Rezultatul acestei reevaluări se va face de faţă cu studenţii
în decurs de 2 zile de la data contestaţiei.

Dat fiind specificul acestui curs, nu se presupune consultarea unei bibliografii optionale.

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. drd. Octavian More
Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic exercitii gramaticale/Practical Course in Grammar

Exercises
Codul: LE11221

Ore de audienţă: Miercuri, 13 - 14

Acest curs practic intentioneaza sa complementeze cursurile teoretice de limba engleza
(fonetica, morfologie, sintaxa), prin intermediul unor solutii practice care acopera o serie
de probleme cheie referitoare la stratul morfo-sintactic al limbii engleze. Cursul se axeaza
atat pe discutii de ordin teoretic, menite sa clarifice unele aspecte mai dificile pe care
studentii le pot intalni in invatarea si predarea gramaticii limbii engleze (in acest sens
derivand informatia din cursurile magistrale), cat mai ales pe ilustrarea acestora prin
rezolvarea unor exercitii organizate tematic. Cursul se prezinta sub forma unor intalniri
saptamanale, de-a lungul carora sunt dezbatute aspecte cum ar fi determinativele,
structurile nominale si adjectivale, verbul, adverbul si constructiile adverbiale, elemente
de sintaxa a propozitiei complexe, elemente de analiza a discursului. De asemenea, un loc
important e reprezentat de exercitiile menite a clarifica aspecte de vocabular si exprimare
orala. Cursul se desfasoara pe parcursul a doua semestre, cu tematici similare, dar
complexitate si abordari diferite.
This practical course is intended as a complementation of the theoretical courses in

English language (Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax) by providing students with practical
solutions that cover a series of key-problems related to the study of the morphological
and syntactic level of the language. The course is based on both a number of summative
theoretical debates meant to clarify some diffult spects that ESOL students may encounter
in the learning and teaching of the language, and, primarily, on the illustration of these
through working on thematic exercises. As such, it is centred around weekly meetings
along which a number of problems are debated, including topics like determiners,
nominal and adjectival phrases, the verb, the adverb and adverbials, the syntax of the
complex sentence and elements of discourse analysis. In addition, a seminal part is
represented by the exercises that focus on clarifying issues concerning vocabulary and
oral expression. The course is organised along two semesters, having themes, but
different approaches and levels of complexity.
Jones, L. (1993), Cambridge Advanced English. Student’s Book, Cambridge: CUP.

Jones, L. (1995), Progress to Proficiency. Student’s Book, Cambridge: CUP.
Ward, J. M. (1987), 100 Useful Exercises in English, Penguin Books.
Copii ale acestor texte se gasesc la Biblioteca Facultatii de Litere, precum si la Biblioteca
British Council.


intermediare:
1. Introductions, course description.
2. Articles and Determiners
3. The Noun Phrase I
4. The Noun Phrase II
5. The Noun Phrase III
6. The Verb Phrase I
7. The Verb Phrase II
8. Mid-term test
9. Adverbs and Adverbials
10. Clauses and Sentences I
11. Clauses and Sentences II
12. Revision
13. Final Test
14. Final Assessment

- 2 lucrari semestriale 50% / lucrare

obligativitatea rescrierii lucrarii in cauza


Facultatea de litere

Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza / Techniques of Communication
Codul: LE11221
Numărul de credite:
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de litere
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform orarului
X. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Ana Maria Florescu, asistent, drd.
Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail): florescuani@yahoo.com
Ore de audienţă: conform orarului
XI. Descrierea disciplinei:

The main objective is the improvement of the students’ ability to communicate in English
by helping them to develop their English language skills (the reading, writing, listening
and speaking skills). During the first year of study the Listening Skill – in the first
semester – and the Speaking Skill - during the second semester – are mainly aimed at.
The secondary aim of the course is to make students aware of the Common European
Framework for Languages, of how they can self-assess their language skills according to
this framework and of how they can improve these skills. Also as a result of doing a
presentation they might become aware of what is needed for a successful presentation
(limba romana)
Obiectivul principal al cursului practic este imbunatatirea capacitaţii de comunicare in
limba engleza a studenţilor. Obiectivul secundar al cursului este cunoaşterea de către
studenţi a Cadrului European Comun al Limbilor cat şi conştientizarea şi evaluarea
nivelului propriu al competenţelor lingvistice. Cursul va pune accent pe deprinderea de
inţelegere - ascultare in semestrul I şi in semestrul al doilea pe deprinderea de vorbit.
XII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
1.“Progress to Proficiency” by Leo Jones CUP (1995): (PP)
2.“Cambridge Advanced English” by Leo Jones CUP (1994): (CA) photocopies provided
by the teacher
3. The European Language Portfolio and the European Language Passport/ Portfoliul
European al Limbilor si Paşaportul European al Limbilor
4. Self assessment grid /Grila de autoevaluare
XIII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
Casetofon, CD-player, retroproiector din dotarea catedrei de limba engleza
XIV. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor intermediare:

Week 1 The European Language Portfolio and The European Language Passport
presentation
Week 2 The Self assessment Grid from the ELP // the way of self assessing and
setting priorities according to these
Week 3. FREE TIME (Unit 1) PP:3-4/ vocabulary & functions / In my spare time..., talking
about hobbies and interests / T (CA:9) idioms: All in all…
Week 4. (U1)PP:5-7 reading comprehension/ "Tinkling the ivories, jangling the nerves" /T
(CA:17) idioms: Lose
Week 5. (U1) A WAY TO LIVE - PP:14 / listening comprehension -/"Sarah
Springman" /T (PP:10) collocations: a great pleasure, a heavy cold
Week 6. (U1) PP:17-18. / writing skills /Golden rules for writing a composition /T
(CA:23-24) punctuation
Week 7. (Unit 2) ADVENTURE PP:19-21 / reading and vocabulary/ "Eight feet in the
Andes" T (CA: 26) idioms: At… and By…
Week 8. (U2) PP:24 / error correction ; speaking /describing a picture /T (CA: 36) idioms:
Bring and carry
Week 9. (U2) CLIMBING MOUNTAINS PP:24-25 / listening comprehension /( 3 types
of task) T (CA: 46) idioms: High, middle and low
Week 10. (U2) WORDS EASILY CONFUSED PP:28-29; CA:32(U4) / vocabulary
development / Words easily confused /T (PP:35) idioms: Keep and hold
Week 11. (U2) TELLING A STORY PP:30 / writing skills /Keeping the reader's
interest /T (CA:53) using abbreviations
Week 12. (Unit 3) IT TAKES ALL SORTS CA:83-85 (U10);PP:48-49 /listening
/comprehension, describing people/“What do they look like?”/T (CA:87-88) word study
Week 13
Listening comprehension test
Week 14
Listening comprehension test
XV. Modul de evaluare:

Evaluation and Assessment: continuous assessment based on:
 attendance and participation
 a listening practice test during the first semester
 an oral presentation during the second semester
Final mark is the average of the test / the presentation and these two.
and a reading and writing practice test. Final mark is the average of these two.
The presentations and the tests will be scheduled during the semester at a time that is
convenient to both students and teacher. N.B. I allow two weeks each semester for the
practice tests and oral presentations
(limba romana)
Forma de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs. Nota este formata din rezultatul unui test de
inţelegere – ascultare (semestrul I) si o prezentare orala (semestrul II) si nota acordata
pentru participare la orele de curs si prezenţa. Testul este planificat pe parcursul
semestrului la o data agreata de studenţi si profesor.
XVI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Nota de la cursul practic face parte din nota studentului la unul din cursurile de limba
engleza din fiecare semestru (conform codului)
Prezenţa si participarea la ore este luata in considerare in cadrul notei finale. Nota finala
este media notei obţinute la teste exprimata intr-un procent la care se adauga sau se scad
10%. acordate pentru prezenţa si participarea la ore in fiecare semestru.
Datorita modalitaţii de testare nu exista posibilitate de frauda.
Studenţii pot sa isi vada lucrarile dupa ce afla notele.
XVII. Bibliografia opţională:

Carţile si manualele pentru dezvoltarea competenţelor lingvistice in limba Engleză
existente la bibloteca facultăţii sau la bibloteca Centrului Britanic din Cluj- Napoca

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. drd. Anamaria
Florescu
Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Literatura engleza veche si a Renasterii

Codul: LE 11261
XVIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Coneliu Nicolescu, Prof. dr.

Lucian Dunareanu, Conf. dr. (silabusul lipseşte)
Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail, eventual nr. de telefon):
corneliunicolescu@yahoo.com
Ore de audienţă: se vor afisa la cabinet
XIX. Descrierea disciplinei:

Cursul constituie o trecere in revista a istoriei literaturii engleze de la inceputuri si pana
la perioada Retauratiei, din perspectiva moderna si interdisciplinara. Este prezentata
literatura anglo-saxona cu caracteristicile ei, precum si impactul poeziei si prozei
medievale asupra unor autori ca Geoffrey Chaucer, trecandu-se apoi la renastere, la
dezvoltarea poeziei renasterii, sonetul, precum si la dezvoltarea formelor dramatice. Un
punct important il constituie viata si activitatea lui William Shakespeare si se incheie cu
prezentarea literaturii renasterii tarzii si a restauratiei.
Predare de curs
Prezentare de lucrari
Discutii si dezbateri interactive despre subiectele importante
XX. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Corneliu Nicolescu, A History of English Literature, Editura Motiv, Cluj-Napoca 2004
Alexander, Michael, Old English Literature, The MacMillan Press Ltd., London, 1982
A Literary History of England, Edited by Albert L. Baugh, Routledge and Keegan Paul
Ltd., London 1948
Billings Malcom, The English. The Making of a Nation From 430-1700, BBC Books,
London, 1991
Brewer Derek, English Gothic Literature, The MacMillan Press, 1983
Pellican Guide to English Literature, Oxford University Press, 1984, vol. II-III
XXI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
Prezentari power point
Albume
Harti
XXII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Curs saptamanal
Sapt. 1: Inceputurile literaturii engleze

Sapt. 2: Perioada anglo-saxona. Poezia inainte de cucerirea Britaniei: Widsith, Deor s
Lament, Beowulf
Sapt. 3: Poezia anglo – saxona dupa cucerirea Britaniei: Caedmon, Cynewulf
Sapt. 4: Proza anglo-saxona traducerile lui Alfred
Sapt. 5: Middle English Poetry- The Religious note – William Langland – Piers
Plowman, the Romantic note – Courtly Poetry, balada, The Tales of Rome, The Tales of
France, The Tales of Britain
London, 1991
Sapt 6: Inceputurile istoriei si filosofiei Geoffrey of Monmouth, Roger Bacon, John
Gower
London, 1991
Brewer Derek, English Gothic Literature, The MacMillan Press, 1983
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 7: Geoffrey Chaucer The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament
of Fowls
London, 1991
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 8: Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Sapt. 9: Renasterea Engleza, dezvoltarea poeziei dupa Chaucer
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 10: Evolutia poeziei, sonetul, Wyatt Surrey
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 11: Sydney Spencer
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 12: Perioada elisabetana, drama University Wits
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 13: William Shakespeare sonete
Ltd., London 1948
Sapt. 14: William Shakespeare teatru
Ltd., London 1948
XXIII. Modul de evaluare:

Verificare pe parcurs
Lucrari de semestru
Participare activa
30%
Examen scris
70%
XXIV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
Fraudele de orice fel sunt penalizate conform regulamentelor in vigoare
XXV. Bibliografia opţională:
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/series/OxfordHistoryofEnglishLiterature/?
view=usa
http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/english/E_Old.html
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/middleages/topic_4/welcome.htm

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Prof. Cornelui Nicolescu
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Cultura si civilizatie Anglo-Americana

Codul: LE 11261
XXVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Coneliu Nicolescu , Prof. Dr.

Lucian Dunareanu, Conf. dr. (silabusul lipseşte)
corneliunicolescu@yahoo.com
XXVII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Cursul abordeaza istoria si dezvoltarea sociala si culturala a societatii americane incepand
de la colonizare, trecand prin perioada coloniala a razboiului de independenta si a
razboiului civil, discuta aparitia primului stat democratic din lume si abordeaza etapele
extrem de dificile parcurse de societatea americana pentru consolidarea principiului „We
the people”, principiul fundamental aflat la baza societatii americane
Predare de curs
Prezentare de lucrari
Discutii si dezbateri interactive despre subiectele importante
XXVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Corneliu Nicolescu America, de la descoperire la razboiul de secesiune, editura Dacia,
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Corneliu Nicolescu, America, de la prohibitie la destindere, Presa Universitara Clujeana,
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Making of America democracy, The: Readings and Documents, edited by Roy Allen
Billington, 1965, New York, Holt, Reinhart, Winston
Allan M. Winkler Trecutul Apropiat, Eseuri si documente despre America de dupa cel de-
al doilea Razboi Mondial, traducere si prefata Corneliu Nicolescu, Daci, Cluj-Napoca,
1996
Life History of the United States, The, Consulting editer: Henry F. Graff, vol. I-IV, 1963-
1964, New York, Time Inc.
XXIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Prezentari power point
Albume
Harti
XXX. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Curs saptamanal
Sapt. 1: Descoperire si colonizare

Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 2: Perioada coloniala
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 3: Institutiile politice ale coloniilor
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 4: Societatea coloniala, marea trezire si iluminismul
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 5: Declaratia de independenta, razboiul de independenta
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 6: Constitutia federala, formarea guvernului national
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 7: Sclavia in America
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 8: Expansiunea si frontiera
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 9: Razboiul de secesiune, reconstructia
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 10: America la 1900, perioada progresista, 1895-1920, SUA in Primul Razboi
Mondial
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 11: SUA pe scena internationala interbelica, marea criza
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 12: Al doilea razboi mondial, societatea americana postbelica, lupta pentru drepturi
si libertati civile
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 13: Sistemul politic american, partidele politice, sistemul educational
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
Sapt. 14: Razboiul rece, detente, prabusirea sistemului comunist – America si NATO.
America si razboiul impotriva terorismului
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
Cluj-Napoca, 1998
1996
XXXI. Modul de evaluare:

Verificare pe parcurs
Lucrari de semestru
Participare activa
30%
Examen scris
70%
XXXII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Fraudele de orice fel sunt penalizate conform regulamentelor in vigoare
XXXIII. Bibliografia opţională:
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/history/toc.htm
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/colonialamerica/
http://www.americanrevolution.com/
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap1.htm
http://www.historycentral.com/wars.html

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Prof. dr. Corneliu Nicolescu
Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de eseuri

Codul: LE 11261
XXXIV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Petronia Petrar

Informaţii de contact: petronia.petrar@gmail.com
Ore de audienţă:
XXXV. Descrierea disciplinei:

Cursul practic se bazează pe implicarea participativă a studenţilor, atât la modul
individual, cât prin activitatea în grupuri, în dezvoltarea competenţelor de scriere în limba
engleză. Cursul urmăreşte producerea de diverse discursuri scrise, cu scopul de a
evidenţia dimensiunile critice şi creative ale limbii scrise.
Obiective:
 crearea capacităţii de a produce diverse tipuri de discursuri scrise într-o manieră
clară, corectă şi coerentă, dar personală
 adaptarea stilului la registrul lingvstic potrivit
 introducerea de distincţii între tipurile de eseuri şi tehnicile de stil adaptate
acestora
 îmbunătăţirea cunoştinţelor de limbă engleză scrisă şi vorbită
 dezvoltarea capacităţii studenţilor de a-şi organiza ideile în mod logic şi coerent
 dezvoltarea capacităţii de cercetare a studenţilor
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a produce diverse tipuri de texte scrise (eseuri personale, narative,
argumentative, descriptive, literare, academice)
 capacitatea de a manipula registre stilistice variate
 capacitatea de concentrare asupra unui subiect dat, evitând digresiunile şi de a
organiza expunerea la modul eficient, orientat spre cititor
 capacitatea de a organiza un text (conectori, paragrafe, mărci ale coeziunii
textuale)
 cercetarea şi comunicarea rezultatelor cercetării
 distincţia dintre cercetare şi plagiat
Metode:
 discutarea interactivă a textelor
 crearea de schiţe colective şi individuale ale eseurilor
 dezbateri pe temele date ale eseurilor
 producerea individuală de eseuri complete
 prezentarea individuală şi în grup a eseurilor compuse ca temă
 feedback la şi evaluarea eseurilor colegilor
XXXVI. Bibliografia obligatorie:

 Bailey, Stephen, Academic Writing: A Practical Guide for Students, Nelson
Thomas Publisher, London, 2003
 Evans, Virginia, Successful Writing. Proficiency, Express Publishing, Newbury,
1998
 Germov, John, Get Great Marks for Your Essays, Allen & Unwin Publisher,
Crows Nest, N.S.W., 2000.
XXXVII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

fişe de lucru, imagini, materiale produse de titularul de curs.
XXXVIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 1: introductory class; presentation of activities and requirements.
Week 2:
Topic: letter writing
Key words: formal and informal letters, letters of complaint, letters of request,
suggestion letters.
Students’ tasks: drafting and writing, peer-response, debating and discussing each
other’s drafts.
Week 3:
Topic: applying for a job
Key words: CV-writing, letter of application/cover letter, recommendations
other’s drafts.
Week 4:
Topic: summarising and arguing from written sources.
Key words: summary, selection, relevance, formal language, coherence, consistency,
processing source material.
other’s drafts.
Week 5:
Topic: writing an essay on a given topic
Key words: organisation (introduction, main body, conclusion), thesis statement, topic
sentences and paragraphs; linking words and structures.
Students’ tasks: topic debate, drafting and writing, peer-response, debating and
discussing each other’s drafts.
Week 6:
Topic: the “for and against” essay
Key words: balanced presentation, objectivity, relevance, neutrality, use of authoritative
sources.
Week 7:
Topic: the argumentative essay I
Key words: selection and assessement, supporting and counter-arguments, logical
structure, rhetorical devices, consistency, coherence, personal opinion.
other’s drafts.
Week 8:
Topic: the argumentative essay II (opinion): formal debate
Students’ tasks: organising a debate session, drafting and writing, peer-response,
debating and discussing each other’s drafts.
Week 9:
Topic: study skills
Key words: spelling correction, drafting a paragraph, arguing from written material,
introducing an argument, linking words, research and documentation.
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
Topic: academic writing
Key words: norms of writing, term paper writing, formal requirements, lay-out,
publication.
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
Topic: the academic essay I
Key words: register, style, academic conventions, argument structure, tense consistency,
scholarly conventions.
Students’ tasks: drafting and revising an academic essay, peer-response, debating and
Week 12:
Topic: the academic essay II
Key words: topic selection, relevance, drafting.
Students’ tasks: writing an academic essay, peer-response, debating and discussing each
other’s drafts.
Week 13:
Topic: use of secondary sources
Key words: bibliography, works cited, critical apparatus, in-text reference, citing,
endnotes/footnotes; MLA stylesheet; plagiarism.
other’s drafts.
Week 14: conclusions, feedback, final paper submission.
XXXIX. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

Nota finală constă din notele parţiale obţinute pentru eseurile scrise în timpul semestrului
(50%), nota pentru eseul final (20%), prezenţa şi participarea la ore (30%).
XL. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Prezenţa: prezenţa este obligatorie în proporţie de 70%. Absenţele de la ore pot fi
compensate prin alte activităţi, dar nu dacă acestea depăşesc 50% din cursuri. Prezenţa
insuficientă are drept consecinţă imposibilitatea de a obţine o notă de trecere.
Plagiatul sau copiatul vor avea de asemenea drept consecinţă imposibilitatea de a obţine
o notă de trecere. Plagiatul constituie o gravă încălcare a legii, pedeapsa putând duce la
exmatricularea studentului. Plagiatul poate fi total sau parţial, ceea ce nu duce la o
diminuare a vinei, indiferent de circumstanţă: orice împrumut nerecunoscut de idei,
cuvinte sau texte, din surse clasice sau electronice, va fi considerat plagiat şi tratat ca
atare.
Decan, Şef de catedră, Titular de curs,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. dr. Petronia Petrar
Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic Eseuri

XLI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Ore de audienţă:
XLII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest curs practic prevede participarea activă a studenţilor care vor lucra atât individual
cât şi în grup, şi urmăreşte îmbunătăţirea şi perfecţionarea englezei scrise. Cursul are în
vedere compunerea a unei game de discursuri scrise în limba engleză, facilitând
dezvoltarea scrierii critice şi creative.
Obiective:
 Dezvoltarea abilităţilor de a produce varii tipuri de discursuri scrise într-o manieră
clară, coerentă, şi într-un ton personal
 Adaptarea stilului de a scrie al studenţilor la registrul de vorbire cerut de tipul de
discurs
 Introducerea unor distincţii între diferitele tipuri de compunere şi tehnici de stil
adaptate la acestea
 Perfecţionarea cunoştinţelor de limbă engleză, atât în scris cât şi oral, ale
studenţilor
 Dezvoltarea abilităţii de a-şi organiza ideile într-un mod logic şi coerent
 Dezvoltarea metodelor de cercetare a studenţilor
Competenţe:
 Abilitatea de a produce diferite tipuri de texte scrise (eseu narativ, argumentativ,
descriptiv, literar, critic)
 Manipularea abilă a registrelor lingvistice şi a tehnicilor de stil
 Abilitatea de a se concentra pe un subiect ales, organizarea expunerii într-un mod
eficace, orientat spre cititor
 Organizarea şi structurarea textului (paragrafe, conjuncţii, logical connectors)
 Cercetare şi comunicarea rezultatelor cercetării
 Distincţia clară între cercetare, folosirea informaţiei scrise şi plagiat
Metode:
 Dezbateri interactive pe baza unor texte
 Elaborarea unor schiţe de idei pentru eseuri (individual, în grup)
 Dezbateri în grup pe teme la alegere
 Compunerea individuală de eseuri
 Prezentarea individuală şi în grup a eseurilor scrise individual
 Feedback şi evaluarea lucrărilor colegilor
XLIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
.
XLIV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

hand-outs, imagini, prezentări în Power-Point de către titularul de curs.
XLV. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
suggestion letters.
other’s drafts.
Week 3:
other’s drafts.
Week 4:
other’s drafts.
Week 5:
Week 6:
sources.
Week 7:
other’s drafts.
Week 8:
Week 9:
Topic: study skills
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
publication.
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
Week 12:
other’s drafts.
Week 13:
other’s drafts.
XLVI. Modul de evaluare:

Verificare pe parcurs. Nota finală se compune din:
- Notele date pe eseurile scrise pe durata semestrului (50%)
- Nota pe eseul final (30%)
- Activitate pe parcurs (20%).
XLVII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Prezenţă: studenţilor li se cere prezenţa la minim 60 % din cursuri şi predarea la timp a
eseurilor scrise. Plagiatul va duce automat la pierderea examenului.
Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular de curs

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea asist. dr. Mihálycsa Erika
Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic interpretari de texte/Practical Course in Text

Interpretation
Codul: LE11261

Ore de audienţă: Vineri, 10 - 12

Cursul este conceput ca o introducere practica in studiul literaturii intr-o maniera directa,
prin contactul imediat cu textul literar. Cursul urmareste perfectionarea deprinderilor
generale de interpretare si nu se limiteaza la ilustrarea conceptelor teoretice specifice
unor anumite scoli de critica literara. Discutiile se bazeaza pe studiul aprofundat al
textelor propuse si au forma de seminarii sau dezbateri libere. Temele individuale sunt
concepute a adresa elemente de interes general, cum ar fi esenta realitatii, problema
adevarului, subiectivitatii si obiectivitatii, natura si complexitatea perceptiei, precum si
schimbarile epistemologice survenite in ultimul secol, fara a neglija insa singularitatea
actului literar si implicatiile ontologice ale acestuia. Nota: tematica acestui curs acopera
doua semestre de studii.
This course is devised to introduce students to the study of literature in a direct manner
through a close contact with the 'text'. Given its status as a practical course, it is radically
different from other courses in literature in that the focus is on providing the students
with the necessary insights into the specific problems of 'interpretation', rather than on a
straightforward illustration of some specific theoretical approaches. The series of
discussions is therefore based on a thorough study of texts, in the form of 'open seminars'
or 'loose debates' centred around some leading ideas. The seminal questions in view
originate in the attempt to circumscribe the peculiar nature of literature as the 'art of
words', yet not without the proper consideration given to the 'technicalities' at stake.
Starting from the assumption that literature is but one of the many expressions of the
'human dimension' and the literary text just one particular form of 'text', it is presumed
that the seminars will endow students with the sense of discernment to go beyond the
issues strictly concerning the realm of literature, enabling them to consider properly, yet
in a personal manner, the understanding of man and his universe. Note: the themes
approached through this course cover two semesters of study.

Bibliografie obligatorie/Core readings:
Cortazar, J., 'Continuity of Parks', in Proffitt, Ed. (ed), see infra.
Poe, E.A., 'A Dream within a Dream', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', in Mc.Michael, G. et.
al. (eds), Anthology of American Literature. Instructor's Manual, Third Edition, New
York: Macmillan, London: Collier Macmillan, 1986..
Shakespeare, W., 'Hamlet', in Shakespeare, W. Hamlet, Penguin Popular Classics,
London: Penguin, 1994.
Stevens, W., 'On the Road Home', in Stevens, W. The Palm at the End of the Mind, New
York: Vintage, 1972


intermediare:
1. Course description and schedule. Course management. Attendance Policy.

Assessment Criteria
A.
2. Introduction I: circumscribing the topic and method. Critical essay,
interpretation, analysis, description, comment, paraphrase. The question of critical
support.
3. Introduction II: reality and fiction. Relativity and absoluteness. 'Objective' reality
and 'subjective' perception. The 'truth' of reality and the 'truth' of fiction. Fictional vs.
fictitious. Actuability as essential difference between the real and the fictional.
Language and life.
4. Introduction III: literature as the art of words. The major 'compartments' of

literature: fiction, poetry, drama. Questions of form and content. Language functions
and attributes.
5. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional I. Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream
within a Dream. Text interpretation I.
6. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional I. Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream
within a Dream. Text interpretation II.
B.
7. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional II. Wallace Stevens, On the Road
Home. Text interpretation I.
8. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional II. Wallace Stevens, On the Road
Home. Text interpretation II.
C. FIRST PAPER ANNOUNCED
9. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional III. Italo Calvino, Continuity of
Parks. Text interpretation I.
10. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional IV. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Text interpretation I.
D. FIRST PAPER DUE
11. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional IV. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Text interpretation II.
E. SECOND PAPER ANNOUNCED
12. Metaphors of Fiction, Metaphors of the Real – Time and Space I. Edgar Allan
Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum. Text interpretation I.
13. Metaphors of Fiction, Metaphors of the Real – Time and Space II. Edgar
Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum. Text interpretation II.
F. SECOND PAPER DUE
14. Concluding discussions. Final assessment.

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Universitatea ‘Babes-Bolyai’ Cluj-Napoca
Catedra de limba si literatura engleza
An universitar 2009 - 2010
Semestrul : I
Anul de studii/specializarea: anul I (engleza B)
I. Informatii generale despre curs
Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza contemporana – Lexicologie

Codul: LE 12221
Numar de credite: 6
Locul de desfasurare: Facultatea de Litere, conform orarului
II. Informatii despre titularul de curs
Nume, titlul stiintific: Chira Dorin, conferentiar dr.

Informatii de contact: d_chira@msn.com; tel. 0264-410016
Ore de audienta: 2, cab. M4
The focus of this course is on the area of language study that is concerned with the
nature , meaning, history, and use of words and word elements and often also with the
critical description of lexicography. Lexicology is increasingly treated as a branch of
linguistics, associated with such terms as ‘lexeme’, ‘lexical field’, ‘lexical item’,
‘lexicon’, on the premises that they offer a more accurate basis for the study of language
than terms such as ‘word’ and ‘vocabulary’. The course tackles issues such as: the
theoretical and practical value of lexicology; general problems of the theory of
morphemes; native words versus loanwords; word formation (composition, conversion,
contraction, affixation, abbreviation, etc.); word meaning (componential analysis,
collocation, change of meaning); sense relations. It also describes the procedure and
profession of arranging and describing items of vocabulary in such works of reference as
dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, synonym guides, etc. By the end of the course the
students should be able to define such terms as ‘lexeme’, ‘morpheme’, ‘free/bound
morpheme’, ‘aphaeresis’, ‘root’, ‘base’, ‘stem’, ‘conversion’, ‘affixation’, ‘nonce word’,
‘deflection’, etc.; they should also be able to carry out semantic or lexical analyses,
describe and interpret various linguistic phenomena.
IV. Bibliografie obligatorie:
1. Adams,V.1973, Introduction to Modern Word-Formation, London: Longman.

2. Bauer, L. 1983, English Word-Formation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Baugh, A.C. 1957, A History of the English Language, New York: Appleton.
4. Jackson, H. 1988, Words and Their Meaning, London, New York: Longman.
5. Matthews, P.H. 1974, Morphology. An Introduction to the Theory of Word Structure,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Tataru, C. 2002, An outline of English Lexicology, Cluj-Napoca: Limes.
Lucrarile indicate in lista bibliografica pot fi consultate la biblioteca de limba engleza a

Facultatii de Litere, la biblioteca catedrei de limba engleza, la British Council Library.
Studentii au posibilitatea de studia si materialele xerox oferite de titularul cursului.
VI. Planificarea/Calendarul intilnirilor:
Week: 1, 2. Lexicology. Lexicography. Words. Definition. Types of words.

Morphemes.
The theme deals with: the object of lexicology and lexicography; the theoretical and
practical value of lexicology; some general problems of the theory of word;
morphological structure of words; morphemes-free and bound.
Key concepts: word, morpheme, allomorph, free morpheme, bound morpheme, lexeme,
root, stem, affix, context, co-text, denotation, connotation
Bibliography:
1. Levitchi, L. 1970, Limba engleza contemporana.Lexicologie, Bucuresti: EDP.
2. Matthew, P.H. 1974, Morphology. An Introduction to the Theory of Word Structure,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
3. Tataru, C. 2002, An Outline of English Lexicology, Cluj-Napoca: Limes.
Weeks: 3, 4, 5. Native words versus loan words.

The theme deals with: the origin of English words; assimilation of loan words –with
special emphasis on words of Scandinavian, Latin and French origin.
Key concepts: borrowing, loanword, constitutive element, superstrate, substratum.
Bibliography:
1. Baugh, A.C. 1957, A History of the English Language, New York: Appleton.
2. Greenough, A.S. and Kittredge,G.1962, Words and Their Ways in English Speech,
Boston: Beacon Press.
3. Tataru, C. 2002, An Outline of English Lexicology, Cluj-Napoca: Limes.
Weeks: 6, 7, 8. Word formation
The focus is on the force of the language to form new words and meanings on the basis of
internal resources. We deal here with conversion, composition, contraction, abbreviation,
affixation, back-formation, folk etymology, corruption, blends, nonce words.
Bibliography:
1. Adams,V.1973, Introduction to Modern Word-Formation, London: Longman.
2. Bauer, L. 1983, English Word-Formation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Levitchi, L. 1970, Limba engleza contemporana. Lexicologie, Bucuresti: EDP.
4. Tataru, C. 2002, An Outline of English Lexicology, Cluj-Napoca: Limes
Weeks: 9, 10. Analysing word meaning.

The theme deals with: componential analysis and types of component; collocational
meaning; collocation and idiom; denotation and connotation; change of meaning; causes
determining change of meaning.
Key concepts: semantics, matrix, denotation, connotation, extension of meaning,
narrowing of meaning, degradation of meaning, elevation of meaning, radiation,
concatenation, irony, simile, metonymy.
Bibliography:
2. Tataru, C. 2002, An Outline of English Lexicology, Cluj-Napoca: Limes
Weeks: 11, 12. Sense relations.

The meaning relations that hold within the vocabulary of a language between words
themselves, i.e. ‘lexical relations’ or ‘sense relations’, constitute another aspect of the
study of meaning. The two sense relations concerned here are: synonymy and antonymy.
Key concepts: gradable, converse, complementary.
Bibliography:
3.Kashcheyeva, M.A., Potapova, I.A. and Tyurina, N.S.1974, Practical Lexicology,
Moscow: Higher School Publishing House.
Weeks: 13, 14. The Craft of Lexicography.

The theme deals with: dictionaries-the repositories of words; organisation and structure;
different dictionaries-general purpose dictionaries, specialist dictionaries; non-
alphabetical dictionaries; views of the dictionary; how dictionaries view themselves.
Bibliography:
- pentru obtinerea creditelor acordate acestui curs studentii vor sustine un examen scris la
care trebuie sa obtina cel putin nota 5 (cinci)
- nota la examenul scris este 2/3 din nota finala
- nota la cursul practic trebuie sa fie minim 5 (cinci) si este 1/3 din nota finala
- nota finala se calculeaza astfel: nota examen + nota examen + nota curs practic : 3
VIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situatiilor exceptionale
- prezenta la curs nu este obligatorie si nu conditioneaza participarea la examen

- prezenta la seminarii este obligatorie in proportie de 75%
- frauda (copiat) la examen se pedepseste cu notarea lucrarii cu nota 1 (unu) si
propunerea de
exmatriculare a studentului/studentei din facultate
- lucrarile scrise pot fi vazute de catre studenti in ziua afisarii rezultatelor sau in timpul
orelor de consultatii
IX. Bibliografie optionala:
3. Levitschi, L. 1970, Limba engleza contemporana, Bucuresti: EDP.
4. Marckwardt, A. 1984, American English, Oxford: OUP.
Lucrarile indicate in lista bibliografica pot fi consultate la biblioteca de limba engleza a

Facultatii de Litere, la biblioteca catedrei de limba engleza, la British Council Library.
Studentii au posibilitatea de studia si materialele xerox oferite de titularul cursului.

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Dorin Chira
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic traduceri/Practical Course in Translations

Codul: LE 12221

Ore de audienţă: Joi, 14 - 16

Acest curs este o continuare a cursului din semestrul intai. El pastreaza structura de baza
a cursului precedent si se axeaza intensiv pe deprinderi dobandite prin intermediul
discutiilor si a temelor individuale, adaugand un element nou ce deriva din cursuri de
limba afiliate, mai cu seama din cele de Exercitii gramaticale si Engleza in scopuri
peciale. Activitatile de la curs si diversele teme se bazeaza pe cunostintele pe care
studentii le au despre problemele specifice limbii engleze si a altor limbi, atat in sens
practic, cat si teoretic. Cu toate ca majoritatea activitatilor au forma unor traduceri de
texte variate, cursul include si componente aditionale care au ca scop imbunatatirea
deprinderilor de a utiliza vocabularul si gramatica. Textele selectate si exercitiile de
vocabular acopera diverse forme de utilizare a limbii engleze, de la texte literare pana la
aplicari specializate ale limbii.
This course is a follow-up on the work done in the first semester. As such, it preserves the
basic layout of the previous series and builds extensively on the skills developed through
the class discussions and various tasks assigned as homework, adding an extra ingredient
derived from supporting language courses, in particular, Grammar Exercises and English
for Special Purposes. The class work and assignments are intended to build on students’
knowledge of English and other languages, both in the practical and theoretical sense.
While most of the activities are connected with translating different types of texts, there
are additional components that focus on improving students’ mastery of vocabulary and
grammar/structure. The selection of texts and vocabulary based exercises cover diverse
forms of English, from literary to specialized uses of the language.
Dat fiind tipicul acestui curs, nu se impune consultarea unor surse bibliografice. Textele
care urmeaza a fi traduse la curs for fi puse la dispozitia studentilor sub forma de
fotocopii, de catre titularul cursului.


intermediare:
Introductions and course description.

ESP I: Television and theater.
Grammar and translation workshop I.
ESP II: Computers and Internet.
Grammar and translation workshop II.
ESP III: Law and Order.
Grammar and translation workshop II.
Mid-term test
Special problems involved in translating different types of narratives.
Special problems involved in translating drama.
Translating poetry I.
Review.
Term-end test. Portfolios collected
Conclusions. Final assessment

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Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza: Tehnici de comunicare / Techniques of
Communication
Codul: LE12221
XLVIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
XLIX. Descrierea disciplinei:

by helping them to develop their English language skills (the reading, writing, listening
and speaking skills). During the first year of study the Listening Skill – in the first
semester – and the Speaking Skill - during the second semester – are mainly aimed at.
The secondary aim of the course is to make students aware of the Common European
Framework for Languages, of how they can self-assess their language skills according to
this framework and of how they can improve these skills. Also as a result of doing a
presentation they might become aware of what is needed for a successful presentation
(limba romana)
Obiectivul principal al cursului practic este imbunatatirea capacitaţii de comunicare in
inţelegere - ascultare in semestrul I şi in semestrul al doilea pe deprinderea de vorbit.
L. Bibliografia obligatorie:
1.“Progress to Proficiency” by Leo Jones CUP (1995): (PP)
2.“Cambridge Advanced English” by Leo Jones CUP (1994): (CA) photocopies provided
by the teacher
3. The European Language Portfolio and the European Language Passport/ Portfoliul
European al Limbilor si Paşaportul European al Limbilor
4. Self assessment grid /Grila de autoevaluare
LI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
Casetofon, CD-player, retroproiector din dotarea catedrei de limba engleza
LII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor intermediare:

Week 1 (U3) DISCRIMINATION PP:42-43 /listening and discussion / vocabulary
development / Punctuation (PP:43-44) Building paragraphs (CA: 80-81) T (PP: 46)
Opposites
Week 2. THE THIRD AGE (U9) CA:75 / reading comprehension vocabulary
development / "Life begins at 50 for Third Age students", Living a ripe old age / T
(CA:54) Make and Do
Week 3. COMMUNICATION (Unit 4) PP:50-53 / vocabulary & reading comprehension
/‘In other words…’ ; Attitudes to language from Language made plain by Anthony
Burgess / T (PP:57) Forming adjectives
Week 4. (U4)PP:55-62 / reading & listening// writing with the reader in mind/ “The
Interpreter” 58/ This book 55-56 / 59-60/ ‘Accents and dialects’ 62 /T (PP:59-60)
paragraphs
Week 5. (U5) FOOD AND DRINK 65-67 / vocabulary & listening comprehension /
‘To whet your appetite 65/ “Running a restaurant” 66-67 / T (PP:64) Make & Do
Week 6. (U5) PP: 75-78./ text types/ functions/ writing /‘Describing a process’ / recipes/
T (PP:78) Write the description of a process (culinary or not)
Week 7. (Unit 6) TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT PP:79-/ reading and vocabulary
/Geography; from The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley /T (PP:88-89) summary
writing
Week 8. (U7) CONSUMERS PP:94-95 / listening comprehension and topic vocabulary/
speaking/ Shops and stores 94 / Interview with Amanda Hooper 95/ Dealing with people
(activities)
Week 9. U7) SHOPPING PP:96-101 / reading and listening / West Edmonton Mall 96-
98 /‘Enhancing customers’ lives’ 100-101
Week 10. (U7) DISTORTING THE TRUTH? PP:103 / reading, writing skills, listening /
The Advertising Standards Authority 103-105 /Sequencing ideas 106 + activity 44/
Knowing your rights 107-108 / T (PP: 108) ‘Volvo’
Week 11. (U7) ADVERTISMENTS / listening & reading / Radio ads, TV commercials,
newspaper ads; ‘Censored’ 109 / T Find an ad to present
Week 12. (U8) / THE PRESS 111-116 / reading comprehension vocabulary
development/ The media 111-112 / ‘End of an Era’ 112-115 / The language of headlines
Week 13. PRESENTATIONS /
presentation and discussion
Week 14 PRESENTATIONS /
presentation and discussion
LIII. Modul de evaluare:

 a listening practice test during the first semester
 an oral presentation during the second semester
Final mark is the average of the test / the presentation and these two.
and a reading and writing practice test. Final mark is the average of these two.
(limba romana)
inţelegere – ascultare (semestrul I) si o prezentare orala (semestrul II) si nota acordata
LIV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

LV. Bibliografia opţională:


Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea As. drd. Anmaria Florescu
Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Practical course in Essay writing

Codul: LE 12221
LVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Ore de audienţă:
LVII. Descrierea disciplinei:

This practical course involves the active participation of students, working both
individually and in teams, in developing writing skills in the English language. It focuses
on the production of multiple written discourses, trying to underscore the critical and
creative sides of writing.
Objectives:
 providing the abilities of producing various kinds of written discourses clearly,
correctly, coherently but in a personal voice
 adapting students’ writing style to the linguistic register required by the discourse
 introducing distinctions between types of compositions and stylistic devices
adapted to them
 improving the students’ knowledge of written and spoken English
 developing students’ abilities to organize their ideas in a logical and coherent
manner
 developing students’ research skills
Competences:
 the ability to produce various types of written texts (personal, narrative,
argumentative, descriptive, literary, academic essay)
 manipulating linguistic registers and stylistic devices
 developing the ability to focus on a given topic, avoiding unnecessary digressions,
and organize the exposition in an effective, reader-oriented manner
 using text organizers (connectors, paragraphs, cohesion devices)
 researching and communicating the results of the research
 distinguishing between research and plagiarism
Methods:
 collective and individual drafting of essays
 class debates on given topics of the essays
 individual production of fully-written essays
 individual and group presentations essays written at home
 feedback and assessment of colleagues’ work
LVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
LIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

hand-outs, images, Power-Point presentations produced by the course tutor.
LX. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
Topic: punctuation
Key words: correctness, accuracy, language skills.
other’s drafts.
Week 3:
Topic: the descriptive essay: describing objects/spaces.
Key words: vocabulary building, organisation (introduction, main body, conclusions),
relevance.
other’s drafts.
Week 4:
Topic: the descriptive essay: describing people
Key words: vocabulary building, use of imagery and rhetorical devices, connectors.
Students’ tasks: role playing, drafting and writing, peer-response, debating and
Week 5:
Topic: the narrative essay I
Key words: story telling, raising and maintaining interest, creative writing.
other’s drafts.
Week 6:
Topic: the narrative essay II
Key words: writing beginnings and endings, plotlines, topic selection.
other’s drafts.
Week 7:
Topic: writing reviews: book reviews
Key words: assessment, critical summary, personal opinion, author presentation,
contextualising, finding relevance.
Week 8:
Topic: writing reviews: film reviews
other’s drafts.
Week 9:
Topic: writing reports: assessment and informative reports
Key words: evaluation, opinion, recommendation, information processing.
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
Topic: writing reports: survey and proposal reports
Key words: analysis, questionnaires, conclusions, plans, suggestions, projects.
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
Topic: the critical essay
Key words: documentation, research, norms of writing, formal requirements, lay-out,
publication.
other’s drafts.
Week 12:
Topic: the literary essay I: reading a literary essay
Key words: formal conventions, identifying meanings, literary intepretation
Week 13:
Topic: the literary essay II: writing a literary essay
Key words: subjectivity, creativity, open form
other’s drafts.
LXI. Modul de evaluare:

(“continuous assessment”): the final grade consists of:
- the grades of the essays written during the semester (50%)
- the grade of the final essay (20%)
- class attendance and class participation. (30%)
LXII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:


Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. Dr. Mihalycsa Erika
Universitatea Babeş–Bolyai, Cluj–Napoca
Semestrul II
I. Informaţii generale despre CURS (anul I, Engleza B)
Titlul disciplinei: LITERATURA ENGLEZA (RESTAURATIA SI

ILUMINISMUL) / THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (THE
RESTORATION & THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Codul: LE 12261
Locul de desfăşurare: FACULTY OF LETTERS

Programarea în orar a activităţilor: curs saptamanal
LXIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: CARMEN BORBÉLY, LECTURER, PHD.

Informaţii de contact : carmenborbely@yahoo.com
Ore de audienţă: 2
LXIV. Descrierea disciplinei:

[Obiectivele cursului/disciplinei, conţinutul acestuia, competenţele dobândite prin
absolvirea disciplinei, metodele utilizate în cazul predării, al seminarului sau al lucrărilor
practice – 10-20 de rînduri].
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
This course aims:

1. to provide the students with a general outline of the literature produced in the
British Isles throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular
emphasis on authors, patterns and trends of the Restoration and the
Enlightenment;
2. to familiarise the students with the social, political, religious, economic and
cultural transformations that shaped the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
aesthetics and literary production (dramatic, lyrical, fictional);
3. to develop the students’ awareness and critical understanding of the various
theories and debates surrounding key Enlightenment cultural and literary
epiphenomena, such as, for instance, the rise of the novel, or the issue of
(professional) authorship.
4. to encourage the students’ reflexive learning through engagement in productive
discussion and analysis of a range of topics (seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
authors, works, genres and debates) that pertain to the course syllabus
The course will be conducted through an interactive, combined strategy, mixing lecture
and discussion on the principal reading assignments for each class. The seminar will
encourage students to give brief individual or collaborative reports, charting very
punctually the literary and theoretical readings assigned (students should convene with
the teacher on the major issues of their presentations several weeks ahead of each class).
All required reading (marked as ‘compulsory’) should be completed before class, with
the possibility of covering supplementary reading material for the written reports, should
the students’ interests require this.
LXV. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Compulsory Bibliography
Under COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY are listed the literary works that are
considered to be representative for the period of literature covered by this course. These
works are ranked as obligatory for all the students attending this course. In the case of the
seminars, all required readings should be completed prior to attending each class.
All the works included in the list of Compulsory Bibliography can be found at the
English Library, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, either as separate items, as copies
provided by the teacher, or included in the following anthologies:
- DeMaria, Robert (ed) (1996) British Literature 1640-1789. An Anthology
Oxford: Blackwell -- Engl. 18644
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature (revised ed) (1968) New
York: W W Norton & Co. (Vol. I) Central Library – 659269; This can also
be found at the Faculty of Letters, English Library
Alternatively, students can also consult these works at the internet addresses mentioned
below:
1. John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1613) -- Engl. 21571 ; Engl. 16151
(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/malfi10.txt)
2. Ben Jonson: Volpone; or, The Fox -- Engl. 20156 ; BI 29634 ; J. 1584
(http://www.planbpublishers.com/downloads/html/volpone.htm)
3. William Congreve: The Way of the World -- Engl. 18379
(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/wwrld10.txt)
4. John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books I & II) -- Engl. 14597 ; Central Library
LC.674/1997 (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MilPL67.html)
5. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock -- Engl. 19577 (http://www-
unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/poemlink.html)
6. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels -- Engl. 21574 ; Central Library LC.2979/1996
(http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html)
7. Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/pam1w10.txt)
8. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders -- Engl. 21572
(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/mollf11.txt)
9. Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling -- Engl. 21311 ; Central
Library 675730 (http://www.bartleby.com/301/)
10. M. G. Lewis: The Monk Engl. 20209 ; Engl. 16060 ; Engl. 20150
(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tmonk10.txt)
11. Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker -- Engl. 21573 ; Engl. 21310
Engl. 19833 (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/txohc10.txt)
12. Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy -- Engl. 16059
13. (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/shndy10.txt)
14. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility -- Engl. 21039 ; Central Library 675692
(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/sense11.txt)
15. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters in Montagu M W (1992)
Letters David Campbell Publ. -- Central Library 676259. There are also 3 copies
provided by the teacher at the English Library, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca.
LXVI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
1. Lectures will be delivered using an overhead projector (supplied by the Faculty of

Letters). This will provide the students with an outline of each session structure and with
a clear signposting of the major theoretical issues covered.
2. Each lecture/seminar will have an accompanying handout, charting the fundamental
concepts or key points to be discussed, as well as specifying the (suggested) amount of
time allotted for each activity, such as teacher input, student presentation, debate, etc.
After the completion of each seminar/lecture, these serial handouts will be placed in a
special folder at English Library, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca.
3. The secondary/optional reading material for each lecture/seminar has been assembled
by the teacher in a special Reading Packet (Reader), which includes the Course Outline
and the suggested chapters and studies for the students to consult.
LXVII. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
course outline
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTORY LECTURE.

Course introduction. Presentation of the course outline, objectives
and requirements. Reader information pack. Introduction to
literature in history. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural,
social and historical backgrounds. A survey of British literature,
Restoration through Enlightenment.
WEEK 2: JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE DRAMA (1605-1640) I
a. Court Masques. Court entertainments: origins; ceremonial

contexts. political & religious significance. Inigo Jones and the
ephemeral extravagance of an aristocratic art-form. Allegorical
and spectacular characteristics. Baroque illusionism. The
structure of court masques. Ben Jonson and the anti-masque
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Optional:
▪ Lindley, David (ed) (1995) Court Masques. Jacobean & Caroline Entertainments 1605-
1640 Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press (pp. ix-xvii)
WEEK 3: JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE DRAMA (1605-1640) II

Topics:
Ben Jonson and the Comedy of Humours. Comedy and the
medieval medical theory of humours. Grotesque eccentricities and
polemical/satirical intents. The neoclassicism of Jonsonian
comedy. Volpone, or the Fox: Latin antecedents; the medieval beast
fable; imbalanced humour and Venetian artifice.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
Ben Jonson: Volpone; or, The Fox
Optional:
▪ Loxley, James (2002) The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson London & New York:
Routledge (pp. 69-73)
WEEK 4: JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE DRAMA (1605-1640) III

Topics:
John Webster and the Jacobean Revenge Tragedy. The revenge
play as a species of tragedy. Brief historical outline. Late-
Elizabethan and Jacobean socio-historical context. Stock
ingredients of the ‘tragedy of blood and terror’. Sources, influences
& characteristics of the Jacobean revenge play. John Webster’s The
Duchess of Malfi.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Optional:
▪ Katherine Rowe (1999) Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern,
Stanford University Press (pp. 86-110)
WEEK 5: METAPHYSICAL POETRY
Topics: Seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry & the Baroque.

Definitions, terminological evolution, critical appraisal (from
Dryden to Eliot & beyond). The metaphysical conceit (discordia
concors; antimimetic logic; ‘unified’ v. ‘dissociated’ sensibility).
Beyond Elizabethan mellifluousness: metaphysical ‘strong lines’;
metaphysical wit (‘passionate ratiocination’). Dramatic strategies
of address. John Donne’s secular and religious poetry: between
hedonism and devotional mysticism.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
▪ John Donne: Holy Sonnet XIV: ‘Batter my heart, three person’d God; for you’
▪ Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Optional:
▪ Eliot, T. S. (1932) “The Metaphysical Poets” in Selected Essays London: Faber &
Faber Limited
▪ Hammond, Gerald (ed) (1974) The Metaphysical Poets McMillan (pp. 1-29)
▪ Bloom, Harold (ed) (1986) John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical
Poets New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publ. (pp. 27-32; 37-44)
WEEK 6: PURITANISM.
Topics: 1. The Puritan Revolution: political radicalism, republicanism, and

the Commonwealth. The Protestant ethic and the rise of capitalism.
Main theological issues in the English Reformation. The culture of
religious dissent.
2. Puritan autobiographies and the motif of spiritual pilgrimage.
Puritan allegories: John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont. Mapping the
inner quest: The Pilgrim’s Progress.
3. John Milton’s revolutions: reinventing mid-seventeenth-century
poetics. Poetic beginnings: Lycidas and classical elegiac poetry.
Political pamphlets: reclaiming the public space in Areopagitica.
Advocating ‘a Free Commonwealth’: tracts on political and religious
freedoms. The Christian epic of humanity: Paradise Lost. Milton’s
theodicy and the Fall. Rebellious angels and satanic over-reachers:
aftermath and influence. Making ‘darkness visible’: between
blindness and insight in the critical reception of Milton’s epic. Re-
establishing the ‘classical’ pattern of tragedy: Samson Agonistes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory :
John Milton, Paradise Lost (minimum requirement: Books I-II)
Optional:
▪ Weber, Max (2003, orig. 1958) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
(Transl. by Talcott Parsons) Mineola, New York: Dover Publ. Inc (pp. 35-78)
▪ Mullett, Michael A. (1996) John Bunyan in Context. Keele, Staffordshire Edinburgh
University Press (pp. 191-209)
▪ Rogers, John (1996) The Matter of Revolution. Science, Poetry, and Politics in the
Age of Milton Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press (pp. 103-129)
▪ McMahon, Robert (1998) The Two Poets of Paradise Lost Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press (pp. 1-22)
▪ Kolbrener, William (1997) Milton’s Warring Angels. A Study of Critical Engagements
Cambridge University Press (pp. 133-157)
WEEK 7: ORIENTALISM AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY

TRAVELOGUES
Topics: Constructing ‘knowledge(s)’ of the West’s Other: Orientalism and

Eighteenth-Century Travellers. Epistolary travel narratives. Forging
national/imperial identity. Collections and cabinets of curiosities.
Feminist inflections of Orientalist rhetoric. (Un)veiling the
Oriental(ist) woman: Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters.
Levantinisation & the ‘mystique of reciprocity’.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
▪ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters in Montagu M W (1992)
Letters David Campbell Publ.
Optional:
▪ Said, Edward (1979) Orientalism New York: Vintage Books (pp. 49-53; 73-77)
▪ Kietzman, Mary Jo ‘Montagu's 'Turkish Embassy Letters' and cultural dislocation’ in
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Vol. 38 3/1998
▪ Uphaus, Robert W. & Gretchen M. Foster (eds) (1991) The "Other" Eighteenth
Century: English Women of Letters 1660-1800 East Lansing: Colleagues Press (pp. 247-
248; 1-16)
WEEK 8: THE RESTORATION THEATRE: BRITISH DRAMA FROM

1660 TO 1710
Topics:
1.Twin Restorations: the monarchy and the stage. The Leviathan:
Thomas Hobbes’ materialistic philosophy. Restoration playhouses,
audiences and performance. Ideologies & counter-ideologies: the
ambivalent politics of Restoration drama. From royalist ‘cavalier’
ethics to bourgeois individualism.
2. Spec(tac)ular extravaganzas (Restoration semioperas and heroic
tragedies). Baroque tensions: the quarrel between the Ancients and
the Moderns. John Dryden’s Essay of Dramatick Poesie. Hobbesian
paradoxes in The Conquest of Granada (1672).
3. Tragedy & tragicomedy: the (im)purity of (a) dramatic form.
‘Marriage-a-la-mode’ and theories of social contract.
4. The Restoration comedy of manners. The ‘mixt’ way of comedy:
between Fletcherian wit v. Jonsonian humour. Sensuous appetites:
rakes, fops, cuckolds, and the elaborate adventure of sexual intrigue.
William Wycherly’s The Country Wife (1675) and George Etherege’s
The Man of Mode (1676). Carnivalesque masquerade in Aphra
Behn’s The Rover (1681). William Congreve’s The Way of the World
(1700). The ethics of the Collier controversy: Immorality and
Profanity on the English Stage.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
▪ William Congreve: The Way of the World (1700)
Optional:
▪ Dryden, John, An Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668)
▪ Corman, Brian ‘Comedy’ in Fisk, Deborah Payne (ed) (2000) The Cambridge
Companion to English Restoration Theatre Cambridge University Press (pp. 52-69)
▪ Womersley, David (ed) (2000) A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake
Oxford: Blackwell (pp. 238-243)
▪ Hughes, Derek (1996) English Drama 1660-1700 Oxford: Clarendon Press (pp. 1-29)
WEEK 9: THE GOTHIC ROMANCE
Topics: Gothic fiction in the eighteenth century: (re)producing the ideology

of the modern bourgeois subject. ‘Gothic’: range of meanings in the
eighteenth century. Gothic origins: Richard Hurd’s Letters on
Chivalry and Romance (1762). The gothic aesthetic of ‘unreason’:
imagination, originality, terror and the supernatural. The Burkean
sublime: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and the Beautiful (1757). Ann Radcliffe and the terror-
horror divide: On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826). Gothic
manifestos: Horace Walpole’s blend of ancient and modern romance.
Counternarratives of the Gothic: the ‘dark underside’ of
Enlightenment rationality. Gothic stock features. Revolutionary
Gothic: M. G. Lewis’s The Monk (1796). Contaminated genealogies
and dislocated origins. Techniques of narrative and psychological
fragmentation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
M. G. Lewis: The Monk
Optional:
▪ Miles, Robert (1993) Gothic Writing 1750-1820. A Genealogy London & New York:
Routledge (pp. 10-29)
▪ Napier, Elizabeth (1987) The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an
Eighteenth-century Literary Form Oxford: Clarendon Press (pp. 112-132)
▪ Watt, James (1999) Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict,
1764-1832 Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-11)
WEEK 10: ‘WHAT IS THE ENLIGHTENMENT?’
Topics: 1. Background & Basic Tenets of the Enlightenment. Cultural,

scientific, political and socio-economic contexts. The ‘grand
narrative’ of the Enlightenment: Reason, Progress, Perfectibility
through emancipation. Natural law and universal order. The
secularisation of European thought. Twentieth-century interrogations
of the Enlightenment Project.
2. The Augustan Vision. Eighteenth-century Britain and historical
antecedents of European transformations in political, religious, and
personal freedom. Lockean ‘blueprints’ for the enlightened society.
Neoclassicism: deference to classical precedents in literary theory
and practice. Rationality, restraint, clarity, order, and decorum.
3. Epitomising Augustanism: Samuel Johnson’s centrality in the
eighteenth-century literary establishment. Foreshadowing Romantic
aesthetics: Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759).
4. Alexander Pope and neoclassical aesthetics. The arbiter of taste in
Essay on Criticism (1711). Mock-heroic burlesque in The Rape of
the Lock (1712): zeugma and its ‘cosm(et)ic powers’. The ‘skeptical
sublime’: the Scriblerians’ aesthetic ideology. Pope’s poetic
theodicy: An Essay on Man (1732).
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory :
▪ Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (1712)
Optional:
▪ Foucault, Michel ‘What is the Enlightenment?’ in Rabinow, Paul (ed) (1984) The
Foucault Reader New York: Pantheon Books (pp. 32-50)
▪ Cassirer, Ernst (1932) The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (tr. 1951, repr. 1955)
Princeton University Press (pp. 3-36)
▪ Schmidt, James (ed) (1996) What is the Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers
and Twentieth-Century Questions Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California
Press, (pp. 1; 15-21)
▪ Noggle, James (2001) The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the
Tory Satirists Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press (pp. 3-10)
▪ Baines, Paul (2000) The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope London & New
York: Routledge (pp. 65-75)
WEEK 11: THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL
Topics: The novel of sentiment in English fiction. The mid eighteenth-

century cult of sensibility. The decline of neo-classical reason; the
eruption of Romantic sensibility. David Hume’s Treatise of Human
Nature (1738). Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759).
Away from the Hobbesian state of nature: the (wo)man of feeling;
avatars. Techniques and prescriptions of sentimentalism.
Permeations into Gothic fiction and romantic poetry. Exemplary
emotions and pedagogical assumptions. Jane Austen’s Sense and
Sensibility (1811) and the ‘successful resolution’ of the eighteenth-
century novel. Austen’s refusal to romanticize: irony, mordant wit
and excessive sensibility.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Optional:
▪ Waldron, Mary (1999) Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time Cambridge & New
York: Cambridge University Press (pp. 62-83)
▪ Todd, Janet (ed) (1983) Jane Austen: New Perspectives New York: Holmes & Meier
(pp. 39-48)
▪ Richetti, John (ed) (1996) The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century
Novel Cambridge University Press (pp. 236-253)
WEEK 12: THE RISE OF THE NOVEL

Topics: 1. The origins of the English novel. Formalist and historicist
genealogical surveys. Generic ancestors. Social, economic and
political contexts. The rise of the bourgeoisie. The development of
commercial book trading. Patterns of the novel (gothic, picaresque,
sentimental, etc.).
2. ‘Fathering’ the English novel: Daniel Defoe’s ‘formal realism’.
The primacy of individual experience and perception: seventeenth-
century philosophical backgrounds. Laying the foundations of
modern journalism. Defoe’s self-reflexive obsession with History:
legitimising fictional narrative. Verisimilitude, authenticity,
credibility. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719): grafting travel narratives on
spiritual autobiography. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the
Famous Moll Flanders (1722): modifying the picaresque pattern.
3. Scriblerian irony: Jonathan Swift. Satires on false learning and
religious abuse. Championing Enlightenment ideals? Swiftian satire
in Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Parodying the traveller’s tale: the
(dis)belief in rationality, progress, human perfectibility. The parallax
of perspectives as a vehicle for satire.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory
▪ Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722)
▪ Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
Optional:
▪ Watt, Ian (1957) The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
Hammondsworth (pp. 1-34)
▪ McKeon, Michael (2002) The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press, (pp.1-22)
WEEK 13: PERFORMING THE NARRATIVE: STERNE’S

‘AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL’ SUBJECT
Topics: Eighteenth-century fictions of identity. Laurence Sterne’s novel

without a pattern. Performative narrative: the publicly oriented
narrator. Writing over exigencies of plot: Sterne and the art of
digression. Sterne and the tradition of learned wit. Meaning
embodied in the pattern: humours and hobby horses. Parodic
strategies in Tristram Shandy: Lockean duration and association. The
modernity of Sterne. Formal self-reflexivity. Defamiliarising
strategies of narration. Tristram Shandy as the parodic ‘anti-novel’
that legitimated the normative realist canon.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-1766)
Optional:
▪ Womersley, David (ed) (2000) A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake
Oxford: Blackwell (pp. 371-379)
▪ Watts, Carol ‘The Modernity of Sterne’ in Pierce, David & Peter De Voogd (eds)
(1996) Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism Amsterdam: Rodopi (pp. 19-
38)
WEEK 14: LAYING DOWN THE RULES FOR A NEW PROVINCE OF

WRITING: SAMUEL RICHARDSON V. HENRY FIELDING
Topics: 1. The new school of novel writing in eighteenth-century Britain.

The controversial Richardson-Fielding debate. Domestic interiors
and public spaces.
2. Samuel Richardson and the novel of sensibility. Formal and
psychological complexity. Didactic intent: inculcating morality in
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740). Origins: scandal narratives and
cautionary tales. ‘Writing to the moment’: Richardson and the
epistolary technique. The complexity of psychological motivation in
Clarissa; Or, the History of a Young Lady (1747-8).
3. Henry Fielding and the ‘heroic, historical, prosaic poem’.
Fielding’s backgrounds as playwright and political journalist.
Rewriting Pamela: parodies of ‘virtue’ in Shamela and Joseph
Andrews. Theorising fiction: finding a new formula for the novel.
The ‘comic epic poem in prose’: The History of Tom Jones. A
Foundling (1749). The Bill of Fare and the digressive prefatory
chapters. The ‘founder of a new province of writing’: Henry Fielding
and neoclassical discipline.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory
▪ Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
▪ Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling (1749)
Optional:
▪ Watt, Ian (1968) The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
Hammondsworth (pp. 174-207; 239-259)
▪ Keymer, Thomas & Jon Mee (eds) (2004) The Cambridge Companion to English
Literature 1740-1830 Cambridge University Press (pp. 139-149)
WEEK 15: PICARESQUE AND EPISTOLARY PATTERNS IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION: TOBIAS SMOLLETT’S
THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER (1771)
Topics: Patterns of the picaresque in English literature. The countergenre of

fastidious courtly literature. Origins and distinct characteristics of the
picaresque. Loose, episodic first-person narratives. Corrupt,
disintegrating world background. On the move: fixity and change
with the rogue hero(ine). Bildungsroman affinities: from social
anonymity to social recognition. Inflections of the picaresque in the
English fiction of the eighteenth century. Tobias Smollett’s satiric
drive. Picaresque realism and the grotesque worldview in The
Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). Challenging readerly
expectations: Smollett’s unconventional approach to the picaresque.
Granting ‘an uniform plan’ to a ‘large diffused picture’: the
epistolary structure of the narrative. In usum publicum: the epistolary
novel’s dynamics of collaboration. Idiosyncratic styles, relativity of
viewpoints.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
Optional:
▪ Heckendorn Cook, Elizabeth (ed) (1996) Epistolary Bodies. Gender and Genre in
The Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters Stanford University Press (pp. 5-29).
LXVIII. Modul de evaluare:

Assessment Guidelines:
CLASS PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE: 10%. Penalties will not be imposed for
your first 3 absences; thereafter, the 10% from your final grade will drop one grade for
each session missed. Excessive absences may, nevertheless, result in failure of the course.
LEADING SEMINAR DISCUSSION: 10%. Students may sign up individually or in

pairs to give presentations of a particular topic and to initiate discussion for one of the
seminar sessions. Students leading discussion will be directed in advance as to the focus
of their discussion questions. Individual or group discussions in class will not only help
consolidate the theoretical grounds of the topics under debate, but will also foster an
interdisciplinary exchange of ideas to be reinforced in the analysis of the works examined
proper.
WRITTEN SEMINAR ASSIGNMENTS: 30%

1. 10% - REVIEW: The first will consist in a review/response to any of the theoretical
or critical articles included in the Reader (to be handed in by the end of May). Your
review should comprise brief (one-page long , i.e. 200-word) commentaries on ONE
of those studies, highlighting its relevance for you as a student of the particular writer
or work it refers to.
2. 20% - HOME ASSIGNMENT: The second written assignment represents a more

academic research paper on a topic of your choice – to be convened with the teacher
shortly after the Easter holiday (a list of possible topics will be made available to you
in due time). Use of secondary bibliographical resources is highly recommended.
Electronic resources may be used, provided that you resort to proper citation styles
and avoid plagiarism at all costs. This final paper should not exceed 5 pages in length
and should be typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing. Late papers
will be penalized one grade for each missed deadline. Suggested date for handing in
your final research papers: the last week in the semester.
WRITTEN EXAM: 50% A substantial percentage of your final overall grade will come
from the written exam, which will comprise two compulsory subjects, one from the
course topics and one from the seminar topics. A minimum grade of 5 for both subjects is
required for passing this final examination. The final grades will be posted within one
week of the final examination date.
GRADING: The final grade for this course will be derived from the following sources:
COURSE GRADING:
10% attendance
10% class contributions
10% review
20% home assignment
50% written exam
LXIX. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Plagiarism will incur failure of the course examination.
NOTA BENE: Exceptional seminar contributions and presentations may exempt you
from having to write the Home assignment.
LXX. Bibliografia opţională:
Optional Reading Material
The Reader (specially designed for this course) contains, as you will notice,
OPTIONAL/SECONDARY reading material – book chapters and articles – which
provide background and explication for the topics analysed. These bibliographical
references are detailed in the Course Outline above. I shall therefore not reiterate the list
in this section. Important notice: You do NOT have to read the Optional texts. However,
you may choose to do so, since they give you relevant material for preparing your
presentations, seminar discussions and for writing your essays. For those students who
feel they need further investigation of particular topics, I can make supplementary
secondary bibliography (literary criticism and theory) available to them on request (on a
short-term loan basis).
Apart from the Optional Bibliography included in the Reader, in the list below you can
find further solid and reliable surveys of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English
literature covered by this course. These books are available at the English Library of the
Faculty of Letters. Students are warmly encouraged to consult such alternative
bibliographical sources, which can also be found at the British Council Library or in the
Online Databases of the Central University Library in Cluj-Napoca (for instance,
Literature Online, www.chadwyck-healey.org).
1. Allen, Walter (1967) The English Novel. A Short Critical History Penguin Books
2. Clifford, James L (1959) Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Modern Essays in
Criticism Oxford University Press
3. Cockshut, A O J (1980) The Novel to 1900 London: McMillan
4. Daiches, David (1960) A Critical History of English Literature London: Secker &
Warburg
5. Day, Martin S. (1963) History of English Literature 1660-1837 New York: Doubleday
& Co.
6. Galea, Ileana, Virgil Stanciu & Liviu Cotrau (eds) (1986) Studies in the Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century English Novel Cluj-Napoca
7. Lindley, David (ed) (1995) Court Masques. Jacobean & Caroline Entertainments 1605-
1640 Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press
8. Mudure, Mihaela (2001) Istorie si literatura Dacia: Napoca Star
9. Vovelle, Michel (ed) (2000) Omul luminilor (transl. By Ingrid Ilinca) Iasi: Polirom
10. Watt, Ian (1968) The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
Hammondsworth

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Carmen Borbely
Semestrul II
I. Informaţii generale despre SEMINAR (anul I, Engleza B)
Titlul disciplinei: Literatură engleză (Teatru englez: Restauraţia) / The Restoration

Theatre: English Drama from 1660-1710
Codul: 12261
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: seminar bilunar
LXXI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

LXXII. Descrierea disciplinei:
SEMINAR DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
This introductory, bi-monthly seminar on English Restoration Drama aims:

5. to familiarise the students with the historical context of the seventeenth-century
Restoration theatre, with particular emphasis on the Baroque as its cultural
background;
6. to develop the students’ critical understanding of the political and religious
underpinnings of the twin restorations (monarchical and theatrical);
7. to facilitate the students’ critical reflection on several dramatic species favoured by
the Restoration period
8. to encourage the students’ productive discussion of several seventeenth-century
plays (comedies, heroic tragedies and tragicomedies) included in the course
syllabus.
The seminar will be conducted through an interactive strategy, using both lecture and
discussion on the principal reading assignments for each class. Students will give
individual or collaborative reports, charting very punctually the literary and theoretical
readings assigned. All required reading (marked as ‘compulsory’) should be completed
before class, with the possibility of covering supplementary reading material for the
written reports, should the students’ interests require this.
LXXIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Under Compulsory Bibliography are listed the literary works that are considered to be
representative for Restoration Drama. These works are obligatory for all the students
attending this course.
All the works included in the list of Compulsory Bibliography can be found at the
English Library, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, either as separate items, or as part of
the Reader (1) compiled by the teacher and deposited at the Faculty of Letters, English
Library in two copies. Alternatively, students can also consult these works at the internet
addresses mentioned below:
Primary Bibliography (compulsory):
1. John Dryden: Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1667)

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html
2. John Dryden: The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (1672)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15349/15349-h/15349-h.htm
3. John Dryden: Marriage A-la-Mode (1673) Engl. 18672

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15349/15349-h/15349-h.htm
4. Aphra Behn: The Rover I (1681)

http://drama.eserver.org/plays/17th_century/rover/
5. William Wycherley: The Country Wife (1675) Engl. 18379

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/274/1876/frameset.html
6. William Congreve: The Double Dealer (1694)

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/dbdlr10.txt
LXXIV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
1. Lectures will be delivered using an overhead projector (supplied by the Faculty of

Letters). This will provide the students with an outline of each session structure and with
a clear signposting of the major theoretical issues covered.
2. Each lecture will have an accompanying handout, charting the fundamental concepts or
key points to be discussed. After the completion of each seminar/lecture, these serial
handouts will be placed in a special folder at English Library, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-
Napoca.
3. The secondary/optional reading material for each lecture/seminar has been assembled
by the teacher in a special Reading Packet (Reader2), which includes the Course Outline
and the suggested chapters and studies for the students to consult.
LXXV. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
Seminar outline
WEEK 1: Setting the Stage– Restoration playhouses, audiences and

performance
Topics:
Seminar introduction. Presentation of the seminar outline,
objectives and requirements. Reader information pack.
Historical timeline. Theatrical monopoly. Professionalisation of
authorship. Playhouse design. Baroque illusionism.
Performance/performers. Restoration audiences.
WEEK 2: A. Ideologies & Counter-ideologies: the ambivalent politics of

Restoration drama
Topics: The ideology of Restoration comedy. Tory aesthetics v. Whig

aesthetics. Hegemonic discourse and oppositional dialogism. Between royalist
loyalism and bourgeois individualism. Cavalier ethics, urbanity and libertinism.
Thomas Hobbes and The Leviathan: absolutism, natural savagery, and theories
of social contract. The decline of the aristocratic world-view and the rise of the
bourgeoisie.
B. Baroque tensions: the quarrel between the Ancients and the

Moderns
Topics: Ambivalent loyalties: between neoclassicism and modernity.

Building an English dramatic canon. Theorising the rhymed
heroic play.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
 READ: John Dryden: Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1667)
Optional:
 Levine, Joseph M. Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in
Restoration England New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 35-52.
WEEK 3: Spec(tac)ular extravaganzas: Restoration theatre and the

Baroque
Topics: The glorious extravaganza of the High Baroque tragedy. John
Dryden and the rhymed heroic play. Formalised structure and
melodramatic plot. A dramatic experiment: overwrought
passions and the body politic. The noble savage and the epic
hero.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
READ: John Dryden: The Conquest of Granada (1672)
Optional:
 Hughes, Derek. English Drama 1660-1700 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, pp. 240-
306.
WEEK 4: LECTURE 4 : Carnival masquerade: gender and ‘subversive

mimesis’
Topics: The politics of gender & the gender of politics in Restoration

drama. From ritual spectacles to carnival pageants: Bakhtin
and the carnivalesque. Crossdressing and ‘subversive mimesis.’
Role reversal and the suspension of hierarchical structures.
Prenuptial agreements and provisos. Performing identities:
female wits and reformed libertines.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
READ: Aphra Behn: The Rover I (1681)
Optional:
 Lowenthal, Cynthia. Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage Carbondale:

Southern Illinois University Press, 2003, pp. 1-34.
WEEK 5: Tragedy & Tragicomedy: the (im)purity of (a) dramatic form

Topics: A controversial dramatic form: Tragicomedy. Baroque mixture
of heterogeneous elements: the encroachment of generic limits.
Receptions, genesis, definitions. Tragicomedy and the
restoration critics. Evanescent forms. Structural split: platonic,
idealistic, heroic plot v. anti-romantic, pragmatic, comic plots.
Thematic disjunction, formal symmetry. Between regicide and
restoration: the political function of Restoration tragicomedies.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
READ: John Dryden: Marriage A-la-Mode (1673)
Optional:
 Maguire, Nancy Klein. “Tragicomedy.” In Fisk, Deborah Payne (ed), The Cambridge
Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 86-
106.
WEEK 6: Sensuous appetites: rakes, fops and the elaborate adventure of

sexual intrigue
Topics: Carolean comedy . The libertine’s aesthetics of “natural” love.

Cavalier rakes v. cuckolds and fops. Transgressive comic figures
(the fool, the jester, garrulous women). Cynical doctrines of
hedonistic appetite. The contrast of rural and metropolitan
values.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
READ: William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)
Optional:
 Canfield, J. Douglas. “Nubile Tricksters Land Their Men.” In Tricksters & Estates:
On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky,
1997, pp. 33-44.
WEEK 7: Conclusions: William Congreve and the Restoration comedy of

manners
Topics: The ‘mixt’ way of comedy: between Fletcherian wit v. Jonsonian

humour. The savagery of Congreve’s satire. The attractiveness of
evil. Vestigial and reformed rakes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Compulsory:
READ: William Congreve: The Double Dealer (1694)
LXXVI. Modul de evaluare:

CLASS PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE: required (75%). Penalties will not be

imposed for your first absence; thereafter, the 10% from your final course grade will drop
one grade for each session missed. Excessive absences may, nevertheless, result in failure
of the course.
LEADING CLASS DISCUSSION: Students may sign up individually or in pairs to give

presentations of a particular play and to initiate discussion for one of the sessions.
Students leading discussion will be directed in advance as to the focus of their discussion
questions. They may opt for waving the home assignment.
WRITTEN (HOME) ASSIGNMENTS: 2.

1. The first will be a shorter (mid-term) assignment (probably due in April, just after
the Easter break), requiring you to comment on a topic discussed in the previous
classes (1-2 pages maximum). You will receive the instructions two weeks ahead
of the deadline.
2. The final paper will be a more comprehensive research paper (5 pages) on a topic
of your choice in connection with our readings (typed or word-processed with
standard double-spacing). Late papers will be penalized one grade for each missed
deadline. Suggested date for handing in your essays: last week in the semester.
GRADING:
CLASS ATTENDANCE: 10%.
CONTRIBUTION TO CLASS DISCUSSIONS: 20%.
MID-TERM TEST: 20%.
END-OF-TERM PAPER: 50%. NOTA BENE: Outstanding presentations and class
contributions will exempt those students from having to write this paper.
LXXVII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Plagiarism will incur failure of the examination for this seminar and the main course on
the Literature of the Restoration and the Enlightenment periods.
The grade from this seminar (Restoration Drama) will count as 33% of the final grade for
the Course on The Literature of the Restoration and the Enlightenment periods.
LXXVIII. Bibliografia opţională:

Part 1 of the Reader (specially designed for this course) contains, COMPULSORY texts,
while Part 2 of the Reader, as you will notice, comprises OPTIONAL/SECONDARY
reading material – book chapters and articles – which provide background and
explication for the topics analysed. Although the Optional texts are obviously not
required reading, you may choose to consult them, since they give you relevant material
for preparing your presentations. For those students who feel they need further
investigation of particular topics, I can make supplementary secondary bibliography
available to them on request.
Apart from the Optional Bibliography included in the Reader (2), in the list below you
can find further surveys of Restoration Drama. These books are available at the English
Library of the Faculty of Letters. Students are also warmly encouraged to consult other
alternative bibliographical sources, which can be found at the British Council Library or
in the Online Databases of the Central University Library in Cluj-Napoca (for instance,
Literature Online, www.chadwyck-healey.org).
11. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. London: Secker & Warburg,
1960.
12. Day, Martin S. History of English Literature 1660-1837. New York: Doubleday &
Co., 1963.
13. Mudure, Mihaela Istorie si literature. Dacia: Napoca Star, 2001.
14. DeMaria, Robert (ed). British Literature 1640-1789. A Critical Reader. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1999.
15. Zwicker, Steven N. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740.
Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Semestrul 2

Codul: LE 12261
LXXIX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Petronia petrar

Ore de audienţă: vineri, 10-12
LXXX. Descrierea disciplinei:

Obiective:
acestora
dezvoltarea capacităţii de cercetare a studenţilor.
Competenţe:
textuale)
Metode:
LXXXI. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
LXXXII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

LXXXIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
Topic: punctuation
other’s drafts.
Week 3:
relevance.
other’s drafts.
Week 4:
Week 5:
other’s drafts.
Week 6:
other’s drafts.
Week 7:
Week 8:
other’s drafts.
Week 9:
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
publication.
other’s drafts.
Week 12:
Week 13:
other’s drafts.
LXXXIV. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

LXXXV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

atare.

Semestrul 2

Codul: LE 12261
LXXXVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

LXXXVII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Obiective:
discurs
adaptate la acestea
studenţilor
Competenţe:
Metode:
LXXXVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
.
LXXXIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

hand-outs, imagini, prezentări Power-Point de către titularul de curs.
XC. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
Topic: punctuation
other’s drafts.
Week 3:
relevance.
other’s drafts.
Week 4:
Week 5:
other’s drafts.
Week 6:
other’s drafts.
Week 7:
Week 8:
other’s drafts.
Week 9:
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
publication.
other’s drafts.
Week 12:
Week 13:
other’s drafts.
XCI. Modul de evaluare:

XCII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:


Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic interpretari de texte/Practical Course in Text

Interpretation
Codul: LE 12261

Ore de audienţă: Joi, 14 - 16

Cursul este conceput ca o introducere practica in studiul literaturii intr-o maniera directa,
prin contactul imediat cu textul literar. Cursul urmareste perfectionarea deprinderilor
generale de interpretare si nu se limiteaza la ilustrarea conceptelor teoretice specifice
unor anumite scoli de critica literara. Discutiile se bazeaza pe studiul aprofundat al
textelor propuse si au forma de seminarii sau dezbateri libere. Temele individuale sunt
concepute a adresa elemente de interes general, cum ar fi esenta realitatii, problema
adevarului, subiectivitatii si obiectivitatii, natura si complexitatea perceptiei, precum si
schimbarile epistemologice survenite in ultimul secol, fara a neglija insa singularitatea
actului literar si implicatiile ontologice ale acestuia. Nota: tematica acestui curs acopera
doua semestre de studii.
This course is devised to introduce students to the study of literature in a direct manner
through a close contact with the 'text'. Given its status as a practical course, it is radically
different from other courses in literature in that the focus is on providing the students
with the necessary insights into the specific problems of 'interpretation', rather than on a
straightforward illustration of some specific theoretical approaches. The series of
discussions is therefore based on a thorough study of texts, in the form of 'open seminars'
or 'loose debates' centred around some leading ideas. The seminal questions in view
originate in the attempt to circumscribe the peculiar nature of literature as the 'art of
words', yet not without the proper consideration given to the 'technicalities' at stake.
Starting from the assumption that literature is but one of the many expressions of the
'human dimension' and the literary text just one particular form of 'text', it is presumed
that the seminars will endow students with the sense of discernment to go beyond the
issues strictly concerning the realm of literature, enabling them to consider properly, yet
in a personal manner, the understanding of man and his universe. Note: the themes
approached through this course cover two semesters of study
Ballard, J.G., 'The Garden of Time', in Sanders, Th.E. (ed), Sanders, Th.E. (ed),
Speculations. An Introduction to Literature Through Fantasy and Science Fiction,
New York: Glencoe Press., 1973.
Bradbury, R., 'The Fog Horn', in Sanders, Th.E. (ed), Sanders, Th.E. (ed),
Speculations. An Introduction to Literature Through Fantasy and Science Fiction,
New York: Glencoe Press., 1973.
Eliot, T.S., 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', in Mc.Michael, G. et. al. (eds),
Anthology of American Literature. Instructor's Manual, Third Edition, New York:
Macmillan, London: Collier Macmillan, 1986.
De Saint-Exupery, A., The Little Prince.


intermediare:
1. Course description and schedule. Course management. Attendance Policy.

Assessment Criteria
2. J.G. Ballard: The Garden of Time. Strategies of facing the pressures of time and
space. Text interpretation I.
3. J.G. Ballard: The Garden of Time. Strategies of facing the pressures of time and
space. Text interpretation II.
4. T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Stories of displacement and
seclusion. Text Interpretation I
5. T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Stories of displacement and
seclusion. Text Interpretation II.
6. R. Bradbury: The Fog Horn. Love in the face of overwhelming reality. Text
interpretation I
7. R. Bradbury: The Fog Horn. Love in the face of overwhelming reality. Text
interpretation II
G. FIRST PAPER ANNOUNCED
8. Edgar Allan Poe: Ulalume. Functions of the memory. Text interpretation I.
9. Edgar Allan Poe: Ulalume. Functions of the memory. Text interpretation II.
10. A. de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince. Persistence and dedication. Text

Interpretation I.

Interpretation II.
H. SECOND PAPER ANNOUNCED

Interpretation III.

Interpretation IV.
I. PORTFOLIOS DUE
14. Concluding discussions. Final assessment.

- prezenta 15%
- 2 lucrari semestriale (eseuri) 35% / lucrare
din punctajul maxim pentru lucrarile semestrial, cat si pentru proiectul final.



Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic Interpretari de texte

Codul: LE12261
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: curs practic saptamanal
XCIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Lect. Dr. Carmen Borbely

carmenborbely@yahoo.com
XCIV. Descrierea disciplinei:

POSTMODERN GOTHIC: (Re)Figuring Monstrosity in Contemporary Fiction
An introductory (two-semester) practical course to contemporary British novels in the
context of postmodern theory.
XCV. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Bibliography:
Compulsory -
▪ Angela Carter: ‘The Tiger's Bride’ in The Bloody Chamber (1979)
▪ Angela Carter: ‘The Company of Wolves’ in The Bloody Chamber (1979)
▪ Salman Rushdie: Shame (1983)
▪ Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry (1989)
▪ Marina Warner: Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters (1992)
▪ Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. A Life in Four Books (1982)
▪ Angela Carter: The Passion of New Eve (1982)
▪ Martin Amis: Einstein’s Monsters (1987)
XCVI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Overhead projector. Handouts.
XCVII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor
intermediare:
J. COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK 1
Presentation of course outline, reading packet and assessment guidelines. Distribution of

course assignments.
WEEK 2
INTRODUCTORY course
TOPICS:
 Foucauldian genealogy – embodied subjectivity – technologies of self – biopower
– discursive constructions of the body – power/knowledge –
subjection/subjectification
 Teratology – monsters as boundary creatures – marginality – pollution
phenomena – taxonomies of monstrosity – enfreakment – genealogy of monstrosity -
‘deviant’ abnormality, eschewal of an(d)thropomorphic norms – the body
monstrous – monstrous nature
 The grotesque body – Kayser & the grotesque - Bakhtin & the carnivalesque –
the anti-structure of carnival – liminality: the fluid transgression of the boundaries
between inside and outside, self and other - monsters as liminal phenomena
Bibliography:
Optional – please choose ONE of the following:
▪ Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ‘Monster Culture (Seven Theses)’ in Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
(ed) (1996) Monster Theory. Reading Culture Minneapolis & London: University of
Minnesota Press [pp. 3-21]
▪ Mikhail Bakhtin (transl. Helene Iswolsky), 'The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its
Sources,' in Rabelais and his World (1968) Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, pp. [315-325]
▪ Peter Stallybrass & Allon White, ‘Introduction’ in The Politics and Poetics of
Transgression (1986) London: Methuen [pp. 1-26]
▪ Foucault, Michel (1970) The Order of Things. An Archaeology of the Human
Sciences London & New York: Tavistock & Routledge [pp. xiii-xxiv]
▪ Turner, Victor (1967) The Forest of Symbols. Aspects of Ndembu Ritual Ithaca &
London: Cornell University Press [pp. 93-109]
WEEK 3
Postmodern gothic
‘Gothic in particular has been theorized as an instrumental genre, reemerging cyclically,
at periods of cultural stress, to negotiate the anxieties that accompany social and
epistemological transformations and crises […] as a genre centrally concerned with the
horrific re-making of the human subject, within a general anxiety about the nature of
human identity.’
Kelly Hurley (1996)
The Gothic Body: Sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle
Cambridge University Press
Group assignment: working in groups of 4 and starting from the quotation above, prepare
a 10-minute presentation on any aspect of contemporary culture that you consider to be
relevant to our course topic this semester: monstrosity and postmodern gothicity. It need
not be theoretically grounded, and the focus of your presentation may be anything from a
recent movie or novel you have come across, to cartoons [the Shrek series of the green
ogre is a definite possibility], Baudrillardian simulacra (9/11?), or cyberfiction: the choice
is yours, but you should demonstrate commitment and real interest in the theme. Make
sure to distribute in-group assignments equally amongst the members of your team and
try to render your presentations as explicit, visually-appealing and informative as you
can. I look forward to this.
TOPICS:
Postmodern rewriting of gothic narratives. The revival of the Gothic in any cultural
sphere: film, music, literature, fashion, etc. The Body monstrous [suggested site:
www.orlan.net]. The imbrications of technology and the body, the gothicity of
cyberspace, outer space, social space, etc.
Bibliography:
▪ D’haen, Theo, ‘Postmodern Gothic’ in Tinkler-Villani & Davidson (eds) (1995)

Exhibited by Candlelight. Sources and developments in the Gothic tradition. Amsterdam:
Rodopi [pp. 283-294]
▪ Bruhm, Steven, ‘The Contemporary Gothic: Why We Need It’ in Hogle, Jerrold E
(ed) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction Cambridge University Press
[pp. 259-276]
▪ Botting, Fred, ‘Aftergothic: Consumption, Machines, and Black Holes’ in Hogle,
Jerrold E (ed) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction Cambridge
University Press [pp. 277-299]
WEEK 4
Bestial attachments: The animal groom in Angela Carter’s "The Tiger's Bride" &
“The Company of Wolves” in The Bloody Chamber (1979)
TOPICS:
Cupid & Psyche v. Beauty & the Beast; the Animal Groom; Rewriting older stories and
myths; reworking the "Beauty and the Beast" motif; Carter’s citational technique: the
appropriation and subversion of folk and fairytale sources; spectatorship and gendered
models of looking; scopophilia and fetishism; the masculinisation of the spectator
position (the dynamics of looking) v. static female ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’; looking
(dominant/subject position) and being looked at (submissive/ object position);
Bibliography:
Compulsory -
▪ Angela Carter: ‘The Tiger's Bride’ in The Bloody Chamber (1979)
▪ Angela Carter: ‘The Company of Wolves’ in The Bloody Chamber (1979)

▪ Bettelheim, Bruno (1975) The Uses of Enchantment. The Meaning and Importance of
Fairy Tales New York: Vintage Books [*Chapter: ‘The Animal-Groom Cycle of Fairy
tales’, pp. 277-310]
▪ Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ in Warhol, Robyn R. & Diane
Price Herndl (eds) (1997) Feminisms, [pp. 438-448]
▪ Marina Warner From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
London: Chatto & Windus (1994) [[*Chapters: 17 (‘Reluctant Brides: Beauty and the
Beast I’) and 18 (‘Go! Be a Beast: Beauty and the Beast II’) pp. 273-318]
▪ Shippey, Tom, ‘Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy Tale in
Contemporary Writing’ in Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri (eds) (2003) A
Companion to the Fairy Tale Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer [pp. 254-274]
WEEKS 5-6
Human-Beast Transformations: Menippean metamorphoses in Salman Rushdie’s
Shame
TOPICS:
Broken mirrors and the ‘insufficiently imagined’ nation. The ‘banality of evil’. The
‘monstrous-feminine’. Aberrations, mutations, Menippean metamorphoses. Outside
the circle of shame:
Bibliography:
Compulsory –
▪ Salman Rushdie: Shame (1983)

▪ Bynum, Caroline Walker (2001) Metamorphosis and Identity New York: Zone Books
[pp. 15-31]
▪ Warner, Marina (2002) Fantastic Metamorphoses. Ways of Telling the Self Oxford
University Press [pp. 1-27]
▪ Booker, M Keith (1991) Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature.
Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque Gainesville: University of Florida Press
[pp. 1-12]
WEEKS 7-8
Gigantism revisited: Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry
TOPICS:
Giants in monstrous taxonomies; giants as foundational figures (builders of cities,
emblematic figures of nations); cynocephali, St Christopher’s legend
Bibliography:
Compulsory –
▪ Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry (1989)

▪ Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome (1999) Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages
University of Minnesota Press [pp. 29-45]
▪ Stewart, Susan (1984) On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the
Souvenir, the Collection The Johns Hopkins University Press [pp. 70-93]
▪ Williams, David (1997) Deformed Discourse. The Function of the Monster in
Medieval Thought and Literature University of Exeter Press [pp. 286-297]
WEEKS 9-10
The agrestic cradle: Witches and wild men in Marina Warner’s Indigo, Or, Mapping
the Waters
TOPICS:
The European wild man; barbaroi, the medieval homo sylvestris, l’homme sauvage in the
Renaissance and the Enlightenment; The Tempest – Sycorax - indigo-producing
Caribbean island at the time of its 17th-century "discovery" by the British
Bibliography:
Compulsory –
▪ Marina Warner: Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters (1992)

▪ Warner, Marina (2003) Signs and Wonders. Essays on Literature and Culture London:
Chatto & Windus [pp. 263-268]
▪ Purkiss, Diane (1996) The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century
Representations London & New York: Routledge [pp. 250-271]
▪ White, Hayden (1978) Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism Baltimore
& London: The Johns Hopkins University Press [pp. 183-195]
WEEKS 11-12
Rewriting Power: The Leviathan in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. A Life in Four Books
(1981)
TOPICS:
Trapped in the maze: Gray’s postindustrial urban geography (‘real’ Glasgow & dystopian
Unthank). Apocalypse now: the nightmare of (personal) history. Paradigms of closure and
dis-closure: Dragonhide and the literalisation of metaphor. Chronoschisms, fluid
topologies: the Intercalendrical Zone. Dismissing the Sovereign’s authority: Alasdair
Gray’s postmodern twist (The Epilogue).
Bibliography:
Compulsory – You will be directed to the more relevant chapters for our discussion.
▪ Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. A Life in Four Books

▪ Lee, Alison (1990) Realism and Power. Postmodern British Fiction London & New
York: Routledge [pp. 99-113]
▪ Foucault, Michel (1980) Power/Knowledge. Selected Interviews and Other Writings
1972—1977 New York : Pantheon Books [pp. 92-109]
▪ Ryan, Alan ‘Hobbes’ Political Philosophy’ in Sorell, Tom (ed) (1996) The Cambridge
Companion to Hobbes CUP [pp. 207-241]
WEEKS 13-14
Recuperating Extraordinary Bodies: The Hermaphrodite in Angela Carter’s The
Passion of New Eve
TOPICS:
Discursive practices of gender performativity. Judith Butler’s notion of ‘drag’ as a
subversion of dichotomic constraints Rhizomatic multiplicities and the de-
territorialisation of desire. Deleuze’s hetero(u)topian Body without Organs
Bibliography:
Compulsory –
▪ Angela Carter: The Passion of New Eve (1982)

▪ Butler, Judith (1990) Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity New
York & London: Routledge [pp. 163-180]
▪ Nederman, Cary J & Jaqui True, ‘The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in
Twelfth-Century Europe’ in Journal of the History of Sexuality. Vol. 6: 4/ 1996
▪ Thomson, Rosemarie Garland (ed) (1996) Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the
Extraordinary Body New York University Press [Chapter: Elizabeth Grosz, ‘Intolerable
Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit’ pp. 55-61]
WEEK 15
Our Posthuman Future: Mutants, degenerates and subhumans in Martin Amis’
post-nuclear holocaust world: Einstein’s Monsters
TOPICS:
Models of posthuman embodiment. Gothic inflections: the perversity of nuclear warfare.
Genocide and nuclear annihilation. Einsteinian (Un)‘Thinkability’. Beowulf and his
monsters: ‘The Little Puppy that Could’
Bibliography:
Compulsory –
▪ Martin Amis: Einstein’s Monsters (1987)

▪ Fukuyama, Francis (2002) Our Posthuman Future. Consequences of the
Biotechnology Revolution London: Profile Books [pp. 181-194]
▪ Hayles, N. Katherine (1999) How We Became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in
Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics Chicago & London: The University of Chicago
Press [pp. 25-49]
▪ Prigogine, Ilya & Isabelle Stengers (1985) Order out of Chaos. Man’s New Dialogue
with Nature London: Flamingo [pp. 213-225; 257-267]
XCVIII. Modul de evaluare:

ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES
STARTING POINTS: 10% signing up for his course ensures the initial 10% of your final
grade (“din oficiu”).
CLASS PARTICIPATION (10%): Class attendance is mandatory. Penalties will not be

imposed for your first 3 absences; thereafter, the 10% from your final course grade will
drop one grade for each session missed. Excessive absences may, nevertheless, result in
failure of the course.
INDIVIDUAL SEMINAR PRESENTATION (20%):

OR
GROUP PROJECT (WEEK 3) (20%):
As you have noticed, this is a practical course and requires your active involvement in
class discussions throughout the duration of the semester. You need NOT read all the
literary texts we are discussing this term, but you should demonstrate at least willingness
to engage in individual and group work whenever the class assignments suggest that you
comment or debate on a specific issue. One seminar presentation is required in which you
give an in-depth presentation of an assigned reading or, if you wish, set of readings.
Presentations may include a summary of the major arguments in a theoretical text, and/or
a discussion of how the fictional text under examination relates to the broader themes of
the course or to the specific themes for each class.
COURSE PORTFOLIO 60%: This should include 2 individual pieces of reflective-

argumentative writing, as follows:
1. 20%: the first should be a one-page review on ANY of the articles or studies included
in the Reader (i.e. on any of the shorter texts listed under Optional Bibliography). This
mini-piece can
- explore an idea/issue/ theory presented in the coursework
- respond to an intriguing notion in one of the readings
- reflect on a seminar discussion, giving your own view of the problem.
2. 40%: a more elaborate academic essay on any of the literary works read for this class
throughout the semester, trying to stick to the overall topic of the course.
NOTA BENE! Exceptional individual or group presentations exempt you from having to
write the second home assignment!
Final due date for Piece 1 : Week 7

Final due date for Piece 2: : Week 7.
XCIX. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Plagiarism will entail failure of the course.
C. Bibliografia opţională:
The entire reading material has been assembled by the teacher in a special reader. Two
copies have been donated to the English Dept. Library. In addition, 2 or more copies of
the novels and narratives discussed have also been placed at the library.
Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular curs,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Carmen
Borbely
UNIVERSITATEA “BABES-BOLYAI” CLUJ-NAPOCA
FACULTATEA DE LITERE
CATEDRA DE LIMBA SI LITERATURA ENGLEZA
I. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrări practice
Titlul disiplinei: Limba engleză contemporană (semantica, stilistica)

Codul: 21221
Număr de credite: 6
Locul de desfăşurare: Universitatea „Babeş-Bolyai”, Facultatea de Litere
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: semestru I, miercuri 10-12
II. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrări practice
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Mihai Mircea ZDRENGHEA, profesor univ. doctor

Informaţii de contact: mihai.zdrenghea@softwaredesign.ro; tel. 0264 414241
Ore de audienţă: miercuri 12-14
Cursul face o prezentare a conceptelor folosite în descrierea sensului. În ultima perioadă

semantica a atras atenţia mai mult decât oricare alt domeniu al studiului limbii. Interesul
pentru studiul sensului a atras atât contribuţii din partea filosofilor şi logicienilor cât şi
din partea psihologilor şi lingviştilor. Cursul nostru oferă o prezentare clara, succintă a
tuturor problemelor care in mod tradiţional implică semantica, dar în acelaşi timp se
ocupă şi de noile direcţii de dezvoltare a cercetărilor în acest domeniu. Arătăm ca
semantica nu este, nu poate fi, o disciplină clar definită şi integrată. Este mai degrabă un
set de studii asupra folosirii limbii în relaţie cu multiplele faţete ale experienţei umane, în
contexte lingvistice şi non-lingvistice, care stabilesc rolul şi locul participanţilor în actul
de vorbire (discurs), relaţia dintre cunoştinţe şi experienţă precum şi condiţiile în care
limbajul este folosit corect.
Competenţe: (a) cunoaşterea unor concepte lingvistice referitoare la semantica si a unor

reguli de identificare şi descriere a sensului în engleza
(b) însuşirea abilităţii de a folosi corect materialul lingvistic astfel încât să
poată determina structura sensului la diferite nivele (grup nominal, grup
verbal, propoziţie)
Metode de predare: (a) utilizarea unui curs interactiv cu fundament de prelegere
(b) discuţii în cadrul cursului pe baza unor exemple
(c) folosirea materialului predat in situaţii concrete de analiză.
CHIŢORAN, D., Elements of English Structural Semantics, Editura Didactică şi

Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1973
LEECH, Geoffrey N., Semantics, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974
LEECH, Geoffrey N., Principles of Pragmatics, Longman, London, 1983
LYONS, John, Semantics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977
PALMER, F.R. Semantics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976
STEINBERG, D.D. and JAKOVOBITS, L.A. Semantics, Cambridge University press,
cambridge, Mass. 1971
HALLIDAY, M.A.K. An Introduction to Functional Grammar, Edward Arnold, London,
1994
ZDRENGHEA, Mihai, Introduction to Semantics, University Press, Cluj-Napoca, 1977
V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: Cursul

tiparit, handouts, etc.
VI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Curs 1: Introduction
Termenii de semantica şi sens, semantica si sintaxă, semantică şi semiotică,
semantică şi pragmatică, semantică istorică
Cuvinte cheie: sense, meaning, semnification

Bibliografie: M. Zdrenghea, Introduction to Semantics, pp.15-25
F.R. Palmer, Semantics, pp. 1-12
Curs 2: The Scope of Semantics

Concepte, sens şi referinţă, tipuri de sens, cuvântul ca unitate semantică
Cuvinte cheie: sense, meaning, semnification, reference, lexical unit

Curs 3: The Non-linguistic Context

Excluderea contextului, context situaţional, relativitate lingistică
Cuvinte cheie: sense, meaning, semnification, reference, lexical unit

Curs 4: Lexical Structure

Sinonimie, polisemie şi omonimie, incompatibilitate, hiponimie, antonimie, relaţii
de opoziţie
Cuvinte cheie: lexical unit, opposition, relation
F.R. Palmer, Semantics, pp. 59- 84
D. Chiţoran, Elements of English Structural Semantics, pp.101-115
Curs 5: Linguistic Context

Contextul ca sens, colocaţii, idiomuri, gramatică şi colocaţii
Cuvinte cheie: relation, collocation, context

Curs 6: Meaning and the Sentence

Cuvânt şi propoziţie, reguli de proiecţie, analitic şi sintetic
Cuvinte cheie: projection, redundancy, analytical, synthetic

Curs 7: The Problem of Meaning

Definirea referenţiala a sensului. Definirea conceptuală a sensului. Semnificaţie
şi sens. Denotaţie şi conotaţie.
Cuvinte cheie: referential, conceptual, connotation, denotation

Curs 8: Motivation of Meaning

Motivare absolută. Motivare relativă
Cuvinte cheie: relative, absolute, motivation, sense, meaning

Curs 9: Interpretive Semantics

Mărci semantice, distinguishers, restricţii selective, lecţiuni lexicale, lecţiuni
derivate, reguli de redundanţă, forma lexiconului
Cuvinte cheie: relative, absolute, motivation, sense, meaning

Steinberg, D.D. and Jakovobits, L.A. Semantics, pp. 267-301
Curs 10: Semantics and Grammar

Gramatica şi lexiconul, gramatica formală, gen şi număr, persoană şi deixis,
tranzitivitate şi cauzalitate
Cuvinte cheie: deixis, person, formal, transitivity, causality
Curs 11: The Speaker’s Semantics

Acte de vorbire. Felicity conditions. Principiul de cooperare. Maxime. Principiul
de politeţe. Presupoziţii. Deixis
Cuvinte cheie: deixis, cooperation, maxims, speech acts, principle

Bibliografie: G.N. Leech, Principles of Pragmatics, pp. 79-130
M. Zdrenghea, Introduction to Semantics, pp.163-179
Curs 12: Generative Semantics

McCawley’s Interpretation. Ross’ answer. Fodor and Katz’s Interpretation
Cuvinte cheie: argument, generative

Curs 13: Linguistic Relativism and Semantic Universals

Relativismul lingvistic. Universalii semantice. Problema sensului în traduceri
Cuvinte cheie: relative, relativism, universal

D. Chiţoran, Elements of English Structural Semantics, pp. 66-78
Curs 14: Structural Approaches to the Study of Meaning

Analiza componenţială
Cuvinte cheie: relative, relativism, universal

D. Chiţoran, Elements of English Structural Semantics, pp. 45-55
La sfârşitul cursului studenţii vor da un examen care va verifica atât cunoştinţele teoretice
cât şi cele practice de interpretare a sensului. Studenţilor li se va cere să prezinte
aspectele teoretice şi să rezolve probleme practice.
VIII. Detalii organizatorice:
 Prezenţa la orele de curs nu sunt obligatorii. Prezenta la cursul practice este obligatorie
minimum 80 %.
 Pentru cele 8 (opt) credite aferente disciplinei se iau in calcul notele de la semantica,
stilistica si cursul practic din semestrul respectiv conform distributiei la codul 21121 din
Planul de Invatamint.
 Utilizarea fraudei în cazul examenului va determina automat sistarea procesului de
examinare şi evaluarea cu nota 1 (unu). Se va solicita conducerii Facultatii
exmatricularea studentului in cauza conform regulamentului.
 La afisarea rezultatelor examenului se va mentiona si data si ora cind studentii pot sa-si
vada lucrarile.
 Orice contestaţie a notei obţinute va trebui însoţită de o cerere din partea studentului
pentru reevaluarea lucrării. Rezultatul acestei reevaluări se va face de faţă cu studenţii în
decurs de 2 zile de la data contestaţiei.

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea
UNIVERSITATEA BABEŞ–BOLYAI, CLUJ–NAPOCA
CATEDRA DE LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ

Semestrul I
Anul II Semestrul I
Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: SEMANTICA – seminar
Codul: LE 21221
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Todea Adriana, Lector drd.

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail) : atodea@yahoo.com
Cabinetul M16
Ore de audienţă: cu programare prealabilă
Obiective:
 să faciliteze analiza modului în care sensul şi semnificaţia noţiunilor
complexe pot fi derivate din simbolurile cele mai simple ale limbajului
 să puncteze relaţiile dintre semnele verbale şi ceea ce este înţeles prin ele,
deosebind astfel semantica de sintaxă, care studiază relaţiile semnelor
între ele, şi de pragmatică, studiul relaţiilor dintre semne şi utilizatorul lor
Conţinut:
I. PREZENTAREA SEMINARULUI ŞI A BIBLIOGRAFIEI
II. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINIŢII.
III. SEMNIFICANT ŞI SEMNIFICAT. CONOTAŢIE ŞI DENOTAŢIE. SENS ŞI
REFERINŢĂ.
IV. CÂMPURILE SEMANTICE. ANALIZA SEMICĂ.
V. RELAŢII LEXICALE.
VI. NOŢIUNEA DE PROTOTIP.
VII. UNIVERSALII LINGVISTICE.
Competenţe:
 abilitatea de a înţelege relaţia dintre semnificant şi semnificat
 înţelegerea de bază a noţiunii de prototip şi a problemei generale a
categorizării
 capacitatea de a alcătui câmpul semantic al diferitelor cuvinte, şi de a face
analiza lor semică
 înţelegerea de bază a noţiunii de universalii lingvistice
Metode de predare:
 utilizarea unei prezentări interactive a noţiunilor teoretice (20%)
 discuţii pe baza unor exemple (50%)
 rezolvarea unor exerciţii practice (30%)

1. Leech, Geoffrey. – Semantics. The Study of Meaning, London: Penguin Books,
1990 (1974).
2. Lyons, John. – Linguistic Semantics. An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996 (1995).
Materiale auxiliare xeroxate. Materialele se găsesc la Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere.

Foi de lucru colaj propriu din bibliografia atent selectată - furnizate de către cadrul
didactic. Materiale auxiliare xeroxate.
VI. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
I. PREZENTAREA CURSULUI
prezentarea disciplinei, a obiectivelor, a bibliografiei, programarea şi organizarea
activităţilor şi prezentarea modalităţilor de evaluare finală şi pe parcursul semestrului.
II. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINIŢII.

Modern linguistics, syntax, discourse analysis, pragmatics and semantics.
presuppositions, implicature, logical versus pragmatic presuppositions, predictability

of presuppositions based on semantic representations, types of meaning, ambiguity
III. SEMNIFICANT ŞI SEMNIFICAT. CONOTAŢIE ŞI DENOTAŢIE. SENS ŞI

REFERINŢĂ.
The relationship between signifier and signified, connotation and denotation versus
sense and reference.
IV. CÂMPURILE SEMANTICE. ANALIZA SEMICĂ.

Naming, concepts, paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, semantic fields,
componential analysis.
V. RELAŢII LEXICALE.
Hyponym, synonym, antonym, collocate, superordinate, meronym, converses.
VI. NOŢIUNEA DE PROTOTIP.

The prototype theory, lexical access, activation, spreading activation, word
association.
VII. UNIVERSALII LINGVISTICE.

The problem of universals: pronouns, colours, and kinship.
Obligaţiile studenţilor pentru fiecare întâlnire, cu excepţia primei ore de seminar: să

rezolve exerciţiile indicate de titularul de curs pe baza elementelor teoretice şi a
exemplelor practice aferente fiecărei întâlniri.

Nota finală o reprezintă punctajul obţinut în urma verificării scrise. Se evaluează
însuşirea cunoştinţelor teoretice şi capacitatea de a le pune în practică.

Prezenţa la ore este obigatorie în proporţie de 80%. Întâlnirile pierdute se pot recupera cu
o altă grupă de studiu, cu acordul titularului de curs, dacă există o altă grupă şi doar dacă
studentul îşi manifestă intenţia de a recupera ora via e-mail până cel târziu în seara zilei
în care s-a desfăşurat cursul pierdut.
Orice tentativă de fraudă va determina automat sistarea procesului de examinare şi

evaluarea cu nota 1 (unu).
Orice contestaţie a notei obţinute va trebui însoţită de o cerere din partea studentului
pentru reevaluarea lucrării. Cererea trebuie trimisă şi prin e-mail. Rezultatul acestei
reevaluări se va face cunoscut în decurs de cel mult 5 zile de la data înmânării contestaţiei
titularului de curs. Titularul de curs şi studentul respectiv vor stabili împreună data la care
studentul îşi poate vedea lucrarea.

1. Palmer, F.R. – Semantics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982 (1973).
2. Wierzbicka, Anna – Semantics. Primes and Universals, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
3. Saeed, John I. – Semantics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Materialele se găsesc la Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere şi/sau Biblioteca Britanică

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Adriana Todea

Semestrul I
Anul II Semestrul I
Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: SEMANTICA – seminar
Codul: LE 21221
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Preda Alina, Lector dr.

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail) : alinapreda74@gmail.com
Cabinetul M8
Ore de audienţă: 4 (cu programare prealabilă)
Obiective:
 să faciliteze analiza modului în care sensul şi semnificaţia noţiunilor
complexe pot fi derivate din simbolurile cele mai simple ale limbajului
 să puncteze relaţiile dintre semnele verbale şi ceea ce este înţeles prin ele,
deosebind astfel semantica de sintaxă, care studiază relaţiile semnelor
între ele, şi de pragmatică, studiul relaţiilor dintre semne şi utilizatorul lor
Conţinut:
VIII. PREZENTAREA SEMINARULUI ŞI A BIBLIOGRAFIEI
IX. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINIŢII.
X. SEMNIFICANT ŞI SEMNIFICAT. CONOTAŢIE ŞI DENOTAŢIE. SENS ŞI
REFERINŢĂ.
XI. CÂMPURILE SEMANTICE. ANALIZA SEMICĂ.
XII. RELAŢII LEXICALE.
XIII. NOŢIUNEA DE PROTOTIP.
XIV. UNIVERSALII LINGVISTICE.
Competenţe:
 abilitatea de a înţelege relaţia dintre semnificant şi semnificat
 înţelegerea de bază a noţiunii de prototip şi a problemei generale a
categorizării
 capacitatea de a alcătui câmpul semantic al diferitelor cuvinte, şi de a face
analiza lor semică
 înţelegerea de bază a noţiunii de universalii lingvistice
Metode de predare:
 utilizarea unei prezentări interactive a noţiunilor teoretice (20%)

3. Leech, Geoffrey. – Semantics. The Study of Meaning, London: Penguin Books,
1990 (1974).
4. Lyons, John. – Linguistic Semantics. An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996 (1995).
Materiale auxiliare xeroxate. Materialele se găsesc la Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere.


intermediare:
VIII. PREZENTAREA CURSULUI

IX. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINIŢII.

Modern linguistics, syntax, discourse analysis, pragmatics and semantics.
presuppositions, implicature, logical versus pragmatic presuppositions, predictability

of presuppositions based on semantic representations, types of meaning, ambiguity
X. SEMNIFICANT ŞI SEMNIFICAT. CONOTAŢIE ŞI DENOTAŢIE. SENS ŞI

REFERINŢĂ.
The relationship between signifier and signified, connotation and denotation versus
sense and reference.
XI. CÂMPURILE SEMANTICE. ANALIZA SEMICĂ.

Naming, concepts, paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, semantic fields,
componential analysis.
XII. RELAŢII LEXICALE.
Hyponym, synonym, antonym, collocate, superordinate, meronym, converses.
XIII. NOŢIUNEA DE PROTOTIP.

The prototype theory, lexical access, activation, spreading activation, word
association.
XIV. UNIVERSALII LINGVISTICE.

The problem of universals: pronouns, colours, and kinship.
Obligaţiile studenţilor pentru fiecare întâlnire, cu excepţia primei ore de seminar: să

rezolve exerciţiile indicate de titularul de curs pe baza elementelor teoretice şi a
exemplelor practice aferente fiecărei întâlniri.

Nota finală o reprezintă punctajul obţinut în urma verificării scrise. Se evaluează
însuşirea cunoştinţelor teoretice şi capacitatea de a le pune în practică.

Prezenţa la ore este obigatorie în proporţie de 80%. Întâlnirile pierdute se pot recupera cu
o altă grupă de studiu, cu acordul titularului de curs, dacă există o altă grupă şi doar dacă
studentul îşi manifestă intenţia de a recupera ora via e-mail până cel târziu în seara zilei
în care s-a desfăşurat cursul pierdut.


1. Palmer, F.R. – Semantics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982 (1973).
2. Wierzbicka, Anna – Semantics. Primes and Universals, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
3. Saeed, John I. – Semantics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Materialele se găsesc la Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere şi/sau Biblioteca Britanică

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lector dr. Alina Preda
UNIVERSITATEA „BABEŞ-BOLYAI” CLUJ-NAPOCA
ANUL UNIVERSITAR 2009 - 2010
SEMESTRUL III
I INFORMAŢII GENERALE DESPRE CURS

TITLUL DISCIPLINEI: STILISTICĂ
CODUL DISCIPLINEI: LE 21221
NUMARUL DE CREDITE: 6 (împreună cu cursul de Semantică)
LOCUL DE DESFĂŞURARE: FACULTATEA DE LITERE, conform orarului afişat
II INFORMAŢII DESPRE TITULARUL DE CURS

NUME, TITLU ŞTIINŢIFIC: Cristina Tătaru, conf. dr.
INFORMAŢII DE CONTACT: cristina_a_tataru¤yahoo.co.uk
ORE DE AUDIENŢĂ: 4
III DESCRIEREA DISCIPLINEI
Cursul este o introducere în problemele stilisticii, axat pe două mari compartimente:

descrierea tropilor şi figurilor de stil în vederea efectuării de analize stilistice şi
problematica stilurilor funcţionale, registru, idiolect, dialect, sociolect, cu caracteristicile
lor. Fiind o disciplină lingvistică ancilară şi literaturii, absolvirea disciplinei îi va ajuta pe
studenţi să aibă o capacitate mai riguroasă de a analiza textul literar, markerii de stil
specifici unui autor, unui curent literar sau tip de text. Având în vedere că este un curs
exclusiv teoretic (neavând prevăzut seminar), metodele de predare sunt necesar
interactive, pentru a avea tot timpul feed-back-ul studenţilor. De asemeni sunt prevăzute
şi aplicaţii practice.
IV BIBLIOGRAFIA OBLIGATORIE
Crystal, David and Derek Davy, Investigating English Style, Longmans, London, 1969
Freeman, Donald C (ed.), Essays in Modern Stylistics,Methuen, London and New York,
1981
Irimia Dumitru, Introducere în stilistică, Polirom, Iaşi, 1999
Toate aceste titluri se găsesc la biblioteca secţiei de engleză a Facultăţii, cu excepţia celui
de-al doilea, din care studenţilor li se oferă handout-uri xerox, ori de cîte ori este nevoie.
V. PLANIFICAREA CURSURILOR
Săptămâna I – curs introductiv –

Obiectul stilisticii, metode de cercetare, concepte fundamentale cu care operează şi
domenii adiacente.
Concepte de bază: stil, stil literar vs. stil funcţional, mărci stilistice şi rolul lor în text,
textul literar ca discurs, coeziunea şi coerenţa în textul literar. Tropi şi figuri de stil.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op.cit., pp. 3-14
Săptămâna II – curs –
Argumente în favoarea unei descrieri lingvistice a stilurilor. Niveluri de analiză. Nivelul
fonetic.
Concepte de bază: fonetică vs. grafetică, aliteraţie, ritm, metru, rimă.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op.cit., pp 15-40
Săptămâna III – curs –

Tropi şi figuri de stil la nivelul lexical. Relaţii de sens în cazul tropilor lexicali.
Importanţa contextului şi co-textului.
Concepte de bază: metaforă, metonimie, sinecdocă, ironie, epitet, hendiadă, comparaţie.
Bibliografie: Fish, Stanley E., What is Stylistics and WhyDo They Say such Terrible
Things About It? In: Freeman, Donald E. (ed.), op.cit.,pp 53-79.
Săptămâna IV – curs –
Sintaxa textului literar. Relaţii interpropoziţionale. Propoziţii principale şi subordonate.
Structura paragrafului.
Concepte de bază:construcţii paralele, antiparalele (chiasmul), repetiţia, gradaţia,
hiperbola; coordonare şi subordonare în text, unităţi suprafrazale.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op. cit, pp. 40-60
Săptămâna V – aplicaţie practică –

Studenţii vor fi rugaţi să revadă cursurile şi se vor face analize stilistice cu identificarea şi
descrierea tropilor şi figurilor de stil din cateva texte literare, atât în proză, cât şi în
versuri şi text dramatic.
Săptămâna VI – curs –
Stilurile funcţionale în engleză. Criterii de departajare, clasificare.
Concepte de bază: discurs, categorii ale discursului. Stil funcţional vs. dialect, sociolect,
idiolect, registru.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy: op.cit., pp.61-91.
Săptămâna VII –curs –

Engleză orală vs. engleză scrisă. Principalele trăsături ale stilului oral.
Concepte de bază: limbaj conversaţional, limbaj telefonic, limbaj oral informal/formal,
distinctivitate stilistică, moduri de marcare a emfazei.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op.cit., pp.95-123
Săptămâna VIII – curs –
Limbajul religios. Limbajul textelor religioase vs. limbajul predicii. Elemente arhaice şi
arhaizante.
Concepte de bază: arhaic, arhaizant, limba biblică, limba liturgică. Probleme
traductologice în diacronie.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op.cit., pp147-171.
Săptămâna IX – curs –
Engleza legală. Asemănări şi diferenţe între aceasta şi limbajul religios. Restricţia lipsei
de ambiguitate. Despre importanţa punctuaţiei în textul legal.
Concepte de bază: text de lege vs. act notarial. Inteligibilitatea textului de lege şi
condiţiile acesteia. „Terms of art” în limbajul juridic modern.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op.cit., pp193-217
Săptămâna X – aplicatie practică
Textul Magnei Charta, faţă de Declaraţia de Independenţă. Ambiguităţi şi certitudini.

Analiză stilistică diacronică. Se poate vorbi de evoluţie în cazul englezei legale?
Probleme de echivalare a stilurilor legale, în diacronie.
Săptămâna XI – curs –
Engleza jurnalistică. Limba reportajelor faţă de cea a marii şi micii publicităţi. Limbajul
titlurilor. Ambiguitatea şi funcţiile ei în jurnalistică.
Concepte de bază: omogenitate lingvistică vs. eclectism stilistic; funcţia de informare;
limbajul tabloidelor; limbaj tip „digest”; varianta grafetică vs. varianta grafologică.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op.cit., pp.173-192
Săptămâna XII – curs –
Engleza ştiinţifică. Caracteristici morfo-sintactice. De la limba tratatelor la cea a eseului.

Concepte de bază: Modul de formare al termenilor ştiinţifici. Grupul nominal în textul
ştiinţific. Tipuri de împărţire în paragrafe. Descifrarea textului ştiinţific. Dicţionarele
tehnice şi modul lor de folosire.
Concepte de bază: reguli contrastive de splitare a substantivelor complexe, câteva afixe
greco-latine cu sens fix, „capcane” ale ambiguităţii în textul ştiinţific.
Bibliografie: Crystal and Davy, op. cit., pp 251-253.
Saptamana XIII – aplicatie practică –
Din analiza stilistică a câtorva texte din diverse domenii ştiinţifice, studenţii vor fi rugaţi
sa discute rolul ambiguităţii în diverse stiluri funcţionale şi traductibilitatea acestora
pentru a.un non-vorbitor nativ de engleză şi b. un filolog.
Săptămâna XIV – seminar recapitulativ –
Studenţii vor fi rugaţi sa-şi revadă cursurile, în vederea lămuririi problemelor care au
apărut, se vor discuta modul de examinare, criteriile de acordare a notelor şi detaliile
referitoare la data afişării rezultatelor. De asemeni vor fi rugaţi ca, sub protecţia
anonimatului, să ofere în scris orice sugestii posibile de îmbunătăţire a cursului,
modalităţii de examinare sau notare.
VII MODUL DE EVALUARE
Se va evalua capacitatea de a face o analiză stilistică pe text, cu recunoaşterea tipului de
text supus analizei şi cu un scurt comentariu asupra eventualelor dificultăţi de înţelegere
şi identificare a textului. Textele vor fi diferite de la student la student. Examenul este
scris, iar nota se adaugă la nota de Semantică, cu care se face media aritmetică.
VIII DETALII ORGANIZATORICE, GESTIONAREA SITUAŢIILOR SPECIALE
Prezenţa la curs şi seminar nu este obligatorie. Studenţii se pot prezenta la examen în

oricare sesiune normală sau de restanţe. Cursurile pot fi recuperate de comun acord. Prin
natura seminariilor (studenţilor nu li se cer referate sau prezentări de materiale), plagiatul
nu este posibil. În caz de lucrări identice la examen, el sunt notate cu 3. In caz de fraudă,
studentul este sancţionat prin întreruperea examenului. Studenţii pot sa-şi vadă lucrările
în următoarele două ore de la afişarea rezultatelor, precum şi prin anunţarea profesorului
în prealabil şi stabilirea unei date. Contestaţiile se rezolvă de Comisia de Etică a
Facultăţii, prin recorectarea lucrării de către o comisie specială.
DECAN, SEF DE CATEDRA, TITULAR CURS,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. Mihai M.Zdrenghea Conf.dr. Cristina Tataru
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic -- Idiomuri

Codul: LE 21221
CI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Michaela Mudure, doctor in filologie

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail, eventual nr. de telefon): mmudure@yahoo.com
Ore de consultaţii: marti 11-12
CII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Cursul urmareste familiarizarea studentilor cu idiomuri relevante, îmbunătăţirea
vocabularului şi a capacităţii de exprimare în limba engleză. Metode utilizate în predare:
exerciţii orale şi în scris, compuneri.
CIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Cartile se pot gasi la BCU sau la Biblioteca Facultatii de Litere.
Allsop, Jake, Idioms, Buc. Teora, 1996

Fowler, W.S., Dictionary of Idioms, London, Nelson, 1979
Spears, Richard A., Essential American Idioms, Illinois, National Textbook Company,
1990
CIV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Scurte filme video, materiale pentru însuşirea limbii engleze, realizate de BBC.
Materialele se imprumuta de la British Council sau sunt proprietatea titularului de curs.
CV. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
Curs 1
Cuvinete cheie : Body Idioms
Activitatea studenţilor : exerciţii orale şi scrise, vizionarea unor filme în care se folosesc
idiomurile respective
Bibliografie: Allsop, Jake, Idioms, Buc. Teora, 1996
1990
Curs 2
Cuvinte cheie : Clothes Idioms
1990
Curs 3
Cuvinte cheie : colour Idioms
1990
Curs 4
Cuvinte cheie : Business-work Idioms
1990
Curs 5
Cuvinte cheie : Food Idioms
1990
Curs 6
Cuvinte cheie : Money Idioms
1990
Curs 7 mid term paper. Results will be discussed during office hours.
Curs 8
Cuvinte cheie : Time Idioms
1990
Curs 9
Cuvinte cheie : Number Idioms
1990
Curs 10
Cuvinte cheie : Health Idioms
1990
Curs 11
Cuvinte cheie : Sports Idioms
1990
Curs 12
Relationships Idioms
1990
Curs 13
Transportation Idioms
1990
Curs 14
Final paper
CVI. Modul de evaluare:

2 lucrări de evaluare în timpul semestrului. Examen scris. Fiecare evaluare este 30% din
nota finală.
CVII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Prezenta la ore nu e obligatorie, conform regulamentului UBB.
Studentii trebuie sa fi dat lucrarea de verificare (mid-term) pentru a se prezenta la
examen.
Recuperarea orelor se stabileste de comun acord cu studentii.
Plagiat = copierea din surse scrise sau electronice a unor pasaje din alte lucrari, sau
preluarea unor idei din alte lucrari fara indicarea sursei.
Consecintele plagiatului : nota 4.
Frauda la examen e adusa la cunostinta consiliului profesoral pentru decizia finala.
Contestatiile se rezolva cu ajutorul sefului de catedra si al decanului.
CVIII. Bibliografia opţională:
Trofin, Aurel, More American Idioms, Cluj, 1986.

Wood, Frederick T. English Colloquial Idioms, London, Macmillan, 1969
Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Mihaela Mudure

Titlul disciplinei: Limba Engleza: Tehnici de comunicare / Techniques of
Communication
Codul: LE21221
CIX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
CX. Descrierea disciplinei:
by helping them to develop further their language skills (the reading, writing, listening
and speaking skills). During the first semester of the second year of study the Reading
Skill is aimed at while in the second semester besides the development of English
language skills the course aims at work in raising teaching and learning awareness. The
language development exercises have as support content that refers to teaching and
learning and is intended mainly for those students who are interested in better
understanding how teaching and learning English are linked. It also gives them both some
theoretical and practical information (it combines tutor input with student participation
based on personal experience and reading provided by the tutor).
(limba romana)
Obiectivul principal al cursului practic este imbunataţirea capacitaţii de comunicare in
inţelegere - citire in semestrul I.
In semestrul al doilea textele şi exerciţiile folosite ca suport de curs se refera la predarea
şi invaţarea limbii engleze. Cursul va da studenţilor informaţii teoretice şi practice legate
de predarea şi invaţarea limbii engleze şi se bazeaza pe participarea şi interacţiunea dintre
studenţi şi profesor pe parcursul orelor cat şi pe baza materialelor citite de studenţi.
CXI. Bibliografia obligatorie:
The course books and reading that are to be used for the course are available in the
faculty reading room of the English language library. Photocopies provided by the
teacher.
Carţile exista la sala de lectura ‚limbi germanice’ a facultaţii şi profesorul va aduce la ore
fotocopii pentru studenţi.
Harmer, J. (1989) Teaching and Learning Grammar. London and New York. Longman
Harmer, J. (1993) The Practice of English Language Teaching. Longman
Hubbard, J and Wheller, T. (1990) A Training Course for TEFL .Oxford University
Jones, L. 1995 Progress to Proficiency CUP (PP)
Jones, L 1994 Cambridge Advanced English CUP (CA)
Parrott, M. 1993 Tasks for language teachers A resource book for training and
development CUP
Popa, E. (1995) Aspects of Theory and Practice in Teaching English as a Foreign
Language. Sibiu. Hermann Press
Spratt, M. 1994 English for the teacher A language development course CUP (M.S.)
Ur, P. 1996 A course in language teaching Practice and theory CUP (P.U.)
CXII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Casetofon, CD-player, retroproiector din dotarea catedrei de limba engleza si vodeo
player din dotarea facultatii.
CXIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor intermediare:

Week 1. EDUCATION (Unit 9) PP:129-131 // listening and topic vocabulary /
composition "Happy days?" / describing your own education
Week 2. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES (Unit 22) CA:191-2 // vocabulary and listening
discussion/ school systems
Week 3. EXAMS (U22) CA: 194-6, 199 // reading and writing/ "The Cat Sat on the test"
T (CA:200) Pick, Pull, Put, Set
Week 4. TEACHERS AND PUPILS (U 9) PP:133-135 // summary writing / listening
"My lessons in the classroom" / Interview with C. Massey
Week 5. ORGANISING YOUR TIME (U 9) PP:137-9, 141-4 // reading and writing
(making notes-cf. U 5 p.75) / "Managing your study time" / "Looking back..."
Week 6. NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT (U 10) PP: 145-8 // topic vocabulay and
listening / "Save the whales" / T (CA:65) In...., Out of...
Week 7. DIFFERENT STYLES (U 10) PP:151-7 // reading and summarising/ writing
skills /"Charles Darwin" / Showing your attitude
Week 8. SAVE THE EARTH (U10) PP: 158-161 // discussion and exam practice / 'fill
the gaps' type exercises / T (PP:161) Put, Set
Week 9. A GOOD READ (U 11) PP: 162-165 // listening and topic vocabulary/ reading
and discussion / "Enjoying reading" / Setting the scene...
Week 10. A GOOD BEGINNING...(U 11) PP:167-170 // writing skills, listening and
vocabulary development / "Sifting the nodders from the shakers" / T Collocation idioms
Week 11. THREE AMERICAN NOVELS (U 11) PP: 171-2, 174-5 // reading ,
listening / interview practice and composition / Interview with a contemporary novelist:
A. Gurnah /describing a book
Week 12. HOW THINGS WORK (U 12) PP: 176-9 // topic vocabulary / reading/ science
and technology / "Time to crack that timer"
Week 13.
Reading comprehension test
Week 14.
Reading comprehension test
CXIV. Modul de evaluare:

 a reading practice test during the first semester
 an oral presentation during the second semester.
(limba romana)
intelegere – citire (semestrul I) si o prezentare orala (semestrul II) si nota acordata pentru
CXV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

CXVI. Bibliografia opţională:


Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. drd. Anamaria
Florescu
Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de idiomuri

Codul: LE 21221
CXVII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CXVIII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest curs practic urmareste extinderea si consolidarea vocabularului englezesc al
studentilor prin introducerea si familiarizarea lor cu expresii idiomatice specifice limbii
engleze. Desi axat in mod special pe acestea din urma, cursul practic acopera si o variata
gama de probleme gramaticale (cum ar fi timpurile verbale) si de vocabular (verbe cu
particula adverbiala), precum si principalele probleme de corespondenta/traducere cu
limba romana. Este bazat pe o abordare interactiva si comunicativa a predarii si invatarii
limbii engleze.
Obiective:
 consolidarea si extinderea vocabularului
 consolidarea si extinderea cunostintelor de gramatica
 practica unor expresii idiomatice uzuale in conversatii care mimeaza contexte
autentice
 furnizarea de informaţii generale asupra organizarii expresiilor idiomatice in
limba engleza
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a folosi corect structuri gramaticale specifice
 capacitatea de a folosi corect expresii idiomatice specifice
 capacitatea de a gasi corespondentele semantice in limba romana
Metode:
 discuţii interactive
 rezolvari de exercitii
 dezbateri în grup
 extragerea de reacţii personale la întrebări specifice
CXIX. Bibliografia obligatorie (toate materialele vor fi disponibile într-un dosar

aflat la bibliotecă):
Milton, James, Virginia Evans. A Good Turn of Phrase. Advanced Idiom Practice.
Express Publishing, 2000. Express Publishing, 2000.
Milton, James, Virginia Evans. A Good Turn of Phrase; Advanced Practice in Phrasal
Verbs and Prepositional Phrases. Express Publishing, 2000.
CXX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: fişe de

lucru, imagini, materiale produse de titularul de curs.
CXXI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

general l frame of the practical course, methods an materials to be used.
Week 2:
Topic: leisure time
Key words: idioms, collocations, fluency, accuracy
Students’ tasks: oral and written practice: A Good Turn of Phrase (idioms), Unit 1 (pp.
4-6); peer response.
Week 3:
Topic: feelings
Students’ tasks: oral and written practice: A Good Turn of Phrase (idioms), Unit 2 (pp.7-
9); peer response.
Week 4:
Topic: money and business
Students’ tasks: oral and written practice: A Good Turn of Phrase (idioms), Unit 3
(pp.10-12); peer response.
Week 5:
Topic: going out
Week 6:
Topic: body and health
Week 7:
Topic: revision
Students’s task: midterm quiz!!!
Week 8:
Topic: phrasal verbs 1
Key words: idiomatic language use; fluency, accuracy; enriching, diversifying
vocabulary; differentiating between speech registers.
Students’ tasks: oral and written practice: A Good Turn of Phrase (phrasal verbs), Unit 1
Week 9:
Week 10:
Topic: entertainment
Week 11:
Topic: science and technology
Week 12
vocabulary.
Week 13
Week 14: QUIZ TEST; conclusions and feed-back.
CXXII. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

Nota finală constă din nota parţiala obţinuta in timpul semestrului (30%), nota pentru
testul final (40%), prezenţa şi participarea la ore (30%).
CXXIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

exmatricularea studentului.
CXXIV. Bibliografia opţională:
Cacciari, Cristina and Patrizia Tabossi. Idioms: Processing, Structure, and Interpretation.
Larence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
Dobson, Julia. Effective Techniques for English Conversation. Newbury House
Publishing, 1974.
Moon, Rosamund. Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-based Approach.
Clarendon Press, 1998.
Universitatea ”Babeş-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca
Catedra de Limba şi literatura engleză
Semestrul 1
Informaţii generale despre disciplină
Titlul disciplinei: Poezia sec. XVIII si Romantismul. Poezia britanică

Codul: LE 21261
Anul de studiu II
Specializarea A
Locul de desfăşurare: conform orarului Facultăţii de Litere
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform orarului afişat
Informaţii despre titularul de disciplină
Nume, titlu ştiinţific: Liliana Pop, conf. dr.

Informaţii de contact: pop_liliana@yahoo.co.uk
Facultatea de Litere, Cabinet M9
Descrierea disciplinei:
Cursul va facilita înţelegerea fenomenului romantic, cu precădere a celui britanic, în
aspectele sale artistice şi literare, dar şi mai larg culturale. Studenţii vor putea, la
sfârşitul acestui curs, să recunoască un text romantic şi să facă demonstraţia
aparteneţei acestuia la perioada şi la curentul respectiv. Drept urmare vor reuşi să
înţeleagă impactul romantismului în epocă, cât şi asupra literaturii, a culturii, precum
şi a tiparelor de gândire atât ulterioare cât şi actuale.
Acoperind perioada dintre ultima parte a secolului al XVIII-lea şi prima jumătate a
secolului al XIX-lea, cursul debutează cu o privire comparativa asupra fenomenului
neoclasic şi inserţia treptată a preromantismului, prin manifestarea sentimentalismului, a
melancoliei şi a interesului pentru elementul naţional, atât pe plan social, cât şi ca
exprimare artistică. Pe fondul abordării fenomenului cultural, social şi istoric, sunt
prezentate cauzele şi efectele revoluţiei romantice. Literatura romantică este prezentată
prin teme şi cronologie – ”şcoala lacurilor” cu manifestul romantic, ”şcoala satanică”,
prin care debutează a doua generaţie de romantici, şi ”şcoala cockney” a romantismului
britanic urban. Cursul se încheie cu o prezentare a evoluţiei romantismului înspre
estetism, diluarea sa în anumite ipostaze ulterioare, dar şi moştenirea romantică în
manifestările sale culturale şi filozofice din zilele noastre.
Se folosesc metoda prelegerii şi cea a dialogului.
IV. Bibliografie obligatorie

Abrams, M.H., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, W.W.W.Norton, 1972, 2000
Abrams, M.H., The Mirror and the Lamp. Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition,
W.W.W.Norton, 1958
Stuart Curran (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, CUP, 1993, 2007
Aidan Day. Romanticism
Boris Ford (ed.) ”From Blake to Byron”. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol V
Materiale folosite
Computer, proiector, fişe multiplicate, expoziţie de panouri cu romantismul britanic
(Catedra de engleză)
Planificarea/ Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/ Examinărilor intermediare
Săptămâna 1. Introduction. Definitions of romanticism. The appearance of romanticism
as a consequence of social, historical, philosophical developments and, at the same time,
the role of Romanticism in shaping the changes of the age. ”Radical” and ”conservative”
thinkers
Key words. Neoclassicism. Enlightenment. Preromanticism Romantic and its cognates.
Cannon. Revolution. Radical vs. conservative.
Săptămâna 2. Configuration of Preromantic schools of poetry. The Graveyard school.

The European anglophilia of the second half of the 18th century. Translation mania. The
persistence of neoclassical forms and themes in the works of the preromantics. Talent and
genius. The cult of the poet.
Key words. Sensibility. Sentimentality. Subjectivity
Seminar. Thomas Grey. ”Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Bibliography. Thomas Grey, ”Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. Norton
Anthology of English Literature, vol 1.
Săptămâna 3. National Awakenings. The migration of literary interest from the center to
the margins. Scottish poetry of the 18th-19th centuries. The valorization of poetic and
musical folklore. Robert Burns as the Scottish bard and his appropriation as a mainstream
English poet.
Key words. Folklore, ballad, national literature, literature of the margins, music and
poetry. Contemporary British vs. 19th-century English literature
Săptămâna 4. Primacy of the Imagination. The fight against empiricism and against
academic art. Romantic Mythopoeia. The discovery of a new ancestry- Celticism and the
Bible. Blake”s illuminated texts. The discovery of northern mystical philosophers
(Boehme, Swedenborg) The relationship between freedom and imagination in Blake”s
view of art. The body and the soul in Balke”s poetry. The poet as a visionary.
Poetry as prophecy.
Key words. Dialectic. Imagination. Freedom. Illuminated printing
Seminar William Blake

Bibliography. William Blake, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, 2000
Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), Poetic and Prose Works of William Blake
Săptămâna 5. The English Romantic Manifesto. The Lyrical Ballads and their Preface.
The new definition of poetry and the poet. Romantic prosody and poetic diction.
Key Words. Nature. Rural. Rustic. Common people. Democratic. Expression. Feelings
Săptămâna 6. Romantic Organicism. The Romantics” view of Nature. Appropriation of

the Landscape (”nature as seen”). Sight and ”the inner eye”
Key words. Organic and cognates. Nature and cognates. Landscape. Perspective.
Subjectivity. Sublime. Beautiful. Picturesque
Seminar. The Lake School of Poetry. The new geography of Romanticism. Perception of
Romanticism and romantic poets by their contemporaries. The evolution of the first-
generation romantics from revolutionaries to conservatives
Bibliography. Wordsworth. Coleridge. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.
2. 2000
Carlos Baker (ed.) William Wordsworth. Poetic and Prose Works
Săptămâna 7. Wordsworth”s spiritual autobiography. The subjective epic as an

alterantive to the Miltonic, national epic. Wordsworth as the ”egotistical sublime”
(Keats). The persistence of blank verse as the language of solemn utterrance. Aesthetics
of the sublime and the picturesque. Edmund Burke” s Philosophical Inquiry into Our
Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Săptămâna 8. The rediscovery of the supernatural. Coleridge”s reading of the German

philosophers. Christian symbology in Coleridge”s poetry. The unfinished (?) poetry of
Coleridge. Romanticism as unfinished performance.
Key words. Supernatural. Gothic. Romantic.
Seminar. Romantic literary criticism. Romanticism and literary theory. Concepts of

Imagination. Primary Imagination, secondary imagination and fancy. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
Bibliography. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poetry in The Norton Anthology of English
Literature, vol.II; Biographia Literaria
Săptămâna 9. The watershed year (1815). Romanticism reconsidered. The second

Generation of romantic poets. The major historical and political changes in Europe,
together with the enormous claims of the first generation of romantic poets are
responsible for bringing about a dramatic change in the writings of the second-generation
romantics.
Săptămâna 10. Idealism in politics and its poetic expression. The atheist claims of
Romanticism. Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Pisan Circle – Shelley, Mary Shelley, Polidori
and Byron
Key words. Idealism. Proto-socialism. Dante/Dantean. Ode. Science
Seminar. The theme of paradise with the English Romantics of the first and second
generation.
Bibliography. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, 2000
Săptămâna 11. Romanticism as a cultural pose. Romantic Heroes. Forerunners and

descendents, in poetry and the sister arts. The Byronic Hero as a cultural consruct
Key words. Hero, anti-hero. Faustian
Săptămâna 12. The appropriation of Mediaevalism. Return to Antiquity – Romantic

Hellenism. Aestheticism. Keats”s development of ekphrasis.
Seminar 12. The medieval ballad revisited. Ancient myths.

Bibliography. ”Keats”, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2. 2000
Săptămâna 13. Romantic innovation. Prosody. Poetry was for the Romantics the
supreme literary form. It was the most congenial for the expression of the new sensibility,
the ambiguity and symbolic richness of Romanticism.
Key words. Ballad. Ode. Epic. Lyrical.
Săptămâna 14. The legacy of Romanticism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The New
Criticism.
Key words. Realism. Decadence, Aestheticism, Fin de siècle, Symbolism, Expressionism.
Modernism. Postmodernism.
Seminar. Conclusions.
Bibliography. ”Romanticism”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, 2000
Modul de evaluare.
Studenţii vor fi evaluaţi prin participarea activă la seminarii, prin prezentarea de teme de
cercetare în cadrul seminariilor. Obţinerea notei 10 în urma examenului este condiţionată
de prezentarea unei teme de seminar sau participarea activă în cadrul seminarului.
Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale

Plagiatul este considerat fraudă. În caz de fraudă în timpul examenului scris
studentul va primi nota 1 şi propunerea de exmatriculare.
Nota acestui cod se compune din 2x1 nota curs+ 1 nota seminar. Media = 2x1
curs + 1 seminar.
Lucrările de examen pot fi văzute de către studenţi după afişarea notelor, la solicitarea
acestora, în cadrul programului de consultaţii afişat.
Bibliografie opţională
Northrop Frye. Fearful Symmetry.
Frank Kermode. Romantic Image
Richard Holmes. The Romantic Poets and their Circle, National Portrait Gallery
Publications, 2005
Vera Călin. Romantismul. Bucureşti, Univers
G. Călinescu. Clasicism, romantism, baroc
Raymond Williams. Culture and Society
Maud Bodkin. Archetypal Patterns in Poetry.
C.M Bowra. The Romantic Imagination
Abrams, M.H., Natural Supernaturalism. Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
Literature, W.W.W. Norton, 1973
Bloom, Harold, (ed.) Romanticism and Consciousness. Essays in Criticism. W.W.W.
Norton, NY, 1958
Ian McIntyre. Dirt and Deity. Burns
Michael Ferber. The Poetry of William Blake
Morris Eaves, (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Blake, CUP, 2003
David Punter. William Blake
F.W.Bateson. Wordsworth. A Reinterpretation.
Alan Gardiner. The Poetry of W. Wordsworth. Pelican
Richard Holmes. Coleridge. Early Visions.
T.S.Eliot. On Poetry and Poets. ”Byron”; Shelley”. London, Faber and Faber
Donald Reiman. P.B.Shelley. Twaine Publishers
Morton, Timothy (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Shelley, CUP, 2006
John Jones. Keats”s Dream of Truth
Susan J. Wolfson, (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Keats, CUP, 2001, 2004
Wu, Duncan (ed.) Romanticism. A Critical Reader, Blackwell, 1995

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Liliana Pop
Semestrul
Titlul disciplinei: Poezie britanica

Codul: LE 21261
Locul de desfăşurare: –
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: –
CXXV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Titularul de disciplină urmează a fi numit

Ore de audienţă:
Semestrul 1
I. Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic: Eseuri

Cod: 21261
Numar de credite: 0
Locul de desfasurare:
II. Informatii despre titularul de curs, lucrare practica sau seminar:

Ore de audienţă:

Obiective:
acestora
Competenţe:
textuale)
Metode:
IV. Bibliografie obligatorie (toate textele vor fi furnizate de titularul de curs şi vor
fi disponibile într-un dosar aflat la bibliotecă):
Barnes, Julian, “Parenthesis”, in A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, Jonathan Cape,

London, 1999
Rushdie, Salman, “Imaginary Homelands”
Orwell, George, “Politics and the English Language”
Swift, Jonathan, “A Modest Proposal”
Woolf, Virginia, “Three Pictures”, in The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: fişe de


intermediare:
Week 1
Topic: introductory class – presenting objectives and requirements; introducing the
general theoretical frame of the practical course, main concepts and methods to be used.
Week 2
Topic: the descriptive essay
Key words: organization (introduction, main body, conclusion), topic sentences and
paragraphs; linking words and structures
Students’ tasks: reading Virginia Woolf’s “Three Pictures”; class debates, producing
draft of descriptive essay
Homework: describe your favourite object/place/ person
Week 3
Key words: focalization, appearance and contrast, figures of speech, linking words and
structures
Students’ tasks: presenting their work to the class; discussing, assessing and correcting
what they have heard.
Week 4
Topic: the narrative essay
Key words: topic statement, sequence, setting, present and past tenses, linguistic
cohesion, narration, flashback
Students’ tasks: reading and discussing the handouts provided by the tutor (samples of
narrative essays); writing the ending of a story
Week 5
Students’ tasks: discussing the endings proposed by other students; producing a
narrative essay with a given title
Week 6
Topic: the personal essay
Key words: personal opinions, viewpoint, creative writing,
Students’ tasks: reading Julian Barnes’, “Parenthesis”; class debate on the text
(organization, style and register, topic)
Week 7
Key words: producing a personal essay
Students’ tasks: individual work: creating a draft of a personal opinion essay on the
topics provided by the tutor; open debate of the drafts
Homework: write the complete essay on the indicated topic
Week 8
Key words: letters of request/information/advice/complaint/application
Students’ tasks: discussing and assessing homework essays; discussing various types of
letters (personal or to authorities)
Homework: write a letter of application
Week 9
Topic: the argumentative essay
Key words: thesis statement, examples and illustrations, comparison and contrast,
definition
Students’ tasks: reading and discussing George Orwell’s “Politics and the English
Language”; class debate on the text
Week 10
Key words: emphasis, repetition, parallel structures, providing transitions, analogy; pro
and con essay
Students’ tasks: deciding on the structure of an essay on a topic provided by the tutor
(class debate)
Homework: write an essay against the topic provided by the tutor
Week 11
Topic: the literary essay
Key words: topic and organization; figures of speech; style and register
Students’ tasks: reading and discussing Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands”;
class debate on the text; producing a one-page free composition on a topic provided by
the tutor
Week 12
Topic: the academic essay
Key words: academic conventions, research, reference, register and style (formal)
Students’ tasks: team work: discuss the draft of an academic essay
interpreting/criticizing Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands”
Homework: write the complete essay
Week 13:
Key words: reference, organization, plagiarism
Students’ tasks: read and discuss handouts provided by the tutor; assess the homework
essays red by other students
Final task: write (at home) a final essay of any kind you have studied this semester.
Week 14: final revision, feedback on the papers and class contribution.
VII. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

atare.

Semestrul 1

Codul: LE 21261
CXXVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CXXVII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Obiective:
discurs
adaptate la acestea
studenţilor
Competenţe:
Metode:
CXXVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
CXXIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CXXX. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 1
Topic: introductory class – presenting objectives and requirements; introducing the
general theoretical frame of the practical course, main concepts and methods to be used.
Week 2
Key words: organization (introduction, main body, conclusion), topic sentences and
paragraphs; linking words and structures
Students’ tasks: reading Virginia Woolf’s “Three Pictures”; class debates, producing
draft of descriptive essay; producing a descriptive essay (written task).
Week 3
Key words: focalization, appearance and contrast, figures of speech, linking words and
structures
Students’ tasks: presenting their work to the class; discussing, assessing and correcting
what they have heard.
Week 4
Students’ tasks: reading and discussing the handouts provided by the tutor (samples of
narrative essays); writing the ending of a story
Week 5
Students’ tasks: discussing the endings proposed by other students; producing a
narrative essay with a given title
Week 6
Key words: personal opinions, viewpoint, creative writing,
Students’ tasks: reading Julian Barnes’, “Parenthesis”; class debate on the text
(organization, style and register, topic)
Week 7
Key words: producing a personal essay
Students’ tasks: individual work: creating a draft of a personal opinion essay on the
topics provided by the tutor; open debate of the drafts
Homework: write the complete essay on the indicated topic
Week 8
Key words: letters of request/information/advice/complaint/application
Students’ tasks: discussing and assessing homework essays; discussing various types of
letters (personal or to authorities)
Homework: write a letter of application
Week 9
Key words: thesis statement, examples and illustrations, comparison and contrast,
definition
Students’ tasks: reading and discussing George Orwell’s “Politics and the English
Language”; class debate on the text
Week 10
Key words: emphasis, repetition, parallel structures, providing transitions, analogy; pro
and con essay
Students’ tasks: deciding on the structure of an essay on a topic provided by the tutor
(class debate); writing an essay on the topic discussed in class (written task)
Week 11
Topic: the literary essay
Key words: topic and organization; figures of speech; style and register
Students’ tasks: reading and discussing Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands”;
class debate on the text; producing a one-page free composition on a topic provided by
the tutor
Week 12
Key words: academic conventions, research, reference, register and style (formal)
Students’ tasks: team work: discuss the draft of an academic essay
interpreting/criticizing Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands”. Written task: an elaborate
academic essay.
Week 13:
Key words: reference, organization, plagiarism
Students’ tasks: read and discuss handouts provided by the tutor; assess the homework
essays red by other students
Final task: write (at home) a final essay of any kind you have studied this semester.
Week 14: final revision, feedback on the papers and class contribution.
I. Modul de evaluare:
II. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:


Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de interpretări de texte

Codul: LE 21261
CXXXI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

CXXXII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Acest curs practic este menit să familiarizeze studenţii cu practica şi vocabularul

interpretării literare, mai precis cu strategiile de lectură şi contextualizare a textului
literar. Se utilizează opere canonice ale modernismului în scopul de a identifica şi a
analiza structurile narative şi convenţiile ficţionale specifice diverselor forme de nuvelă şi
roman. Un alt scop este de a furniza o imagine a principalelor curente critice ale ultimelor
decenii, ca şi capacitatea de a implementa terminologia oferită de acestea în studiul
textului.
Obiective:
 familiarizarea cu practica şi limbajul interpretării literare: lectura şi
contextualizarea textului literar
 studiul convenţiilor genului scurt din prima jumătate a secolului XX
 furnizarea de informaţii generale asupra autorilor şi textelor studiate
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a interpreta un text literar
 cunoaşterea şi utilizarea terminologiei critice
 înţelegerea convenţiilor literare specifice genului scurt
 contextualizarea genului scurt în cadrul scriiturii de secol XX
 producerea de discursuri coerente, scrise şi vorbite, pe marginea textelor studiate
Metode:
 discuţii interactive pe marginea textelor
 close reading
 studiul cadrului teoretic furnizat de bibliografia secundarp
 prezentări individuale şi în grup ale temelor indicate de titularul de curs
CXXXIII. Bibliografia obligatorie (toate textele vor fi disponibile într-un dosar

Henry James – The Turn of the Screw

Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
James Joyce – “The Sisters”
James Joyce – “The Dead”
D. H. Lawrence – “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Virginia Woolf – The Waves
CXXXIV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CXXXV. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

Week 2:
Topic: formalisms/structure-based criticism: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Key words: narratology, narrator, narrative frames, plot, story, subjectivity, perspective,
focalisation.
Week 3:
Topic: reader-oriented approaches and modernist uncertainty: Henry James, The Turn of
the Screw
Key words: ambiguity, indeterminacy, gaps, blanks, re-reading.
Week 4:
Topic: early modernist writing and the new identity: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Key words: space-time compression, context, narrative structure, symbol, characters.
Week 5:
Topic: Conrad between post-structuralist and post-colonial studies: Heart of Darkness
Key words: allegory of reading, conflict of interpretation, self-conscious structures,
deconstruction of meanings.
Week 6:
Topic: text-oriented interpretation and archetypal criticism: D H Lawrence, „Odour of
Chrysanthemums”
Key words: symbol, archetype, myth, mythologisation, nostalgia of the origins,
aestheticising modernity.
Week 7:
Topic: post-structuralism and the dissolution of language: James Joyce, „The Sisters”
Key words: loss of transcendence, loss of meaning, mistrust in words.
MIDTERM PAPER SUBMISSION!!
Week 8:
Topic: post-structuralism and the dissolution of language: James Joyce, „The Dead”
Key words: irony and the linguistic turn.
Week 9:
Topic: historicisms and modernist dystopias: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Key words: context, cotext, text.
Week 10:
Topic: cultural studies and the other of modernism: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Key words: popular culture, high and mass culture, literary politics, consumerism,
reproduction.
Week 11:
Topic: novelistic conventions and high modernism: Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Key words: structure, form, non-linearity, subversion of chronology, time and space,
linguistic awareness, interior monologue, stream of consciousness.
Week 12:
Topic: beyond gender and psychoanalytical studies: Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Key words: feminine writing, unconscious, male vs female authority, stream of
consciousness, hybrid identities, fluidity
Week 13: final quiz.
Week 14: conclusions and feedback.
CXXXVI. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

Nota finală constă din notele parţiale obţinute pentru eseul scris în timpul semestrului
(30%), nota pentru testul final (40%), prezenţa şi participarea la ore (30%).
Eseul trebuie să conţină o analiză a unuia dintre textele studiate dintr-o perspectivă critică
utilizată în timpul semestrului. Se recomandă aducerea de contribuţii personale, dar şi
folosirea bibliografiei secundare.
CXXXVII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

atare.
CXXXVIII. Bibliografia opţională:
Bradbury, Malcolm , ed.: The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, Penguin,
London, 1987
Bradbury, Malcolm, McFarlane, James, eds.: Modernism: A Guide to European
Hanson, Clare, ed., Re-reading the Short Story, MacMillan Press, London, 1989
David Herman ed., The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, 2007.
Levanson, Michael, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, Cambridge

Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: interpretari de texte

Codul: LE 12261
CXXXIX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: lect. dr. Carmen Borbely

CXL. Descrierea disciplinei:

An introductory (two-semester) practical course to contemporary British novels in the
context of postmodern theory.
CXLI. Bibliografia obligatorie:

PRIMARY TEXTS:
The reading assignments for each class session – i.e. the novels under discussion - are
COMPULSORY. I will leave 2 copies (at least) of each novel at the Library. However,
should you feel bound by time constraints or heavy workload for your other classes,
please insist on the sections or chapters suggested.
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children (1981)
Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Angela Carter: The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman (1972)
CXLII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Overhead projector, handouts, reader.
CXLIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor
intermediare:
Course Schedule
Weeks 1, 2:
PRESENTATION OF COURSE SYLLABUS. INTRODUCTORY SESSIONS
TOPICS:
Defining the postmodern. The critique of representation. Microtheory and micropolitics
(Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze). The decentred & fragmented subject: multiplicity, plurality,
indeterminacy. Modernity/Postmodernity. Lyotard and the emancipation/speculative
metanarratives. Jameson and the cultural logic of late capitalism. Baudrillard and the
culture of hyperreality: simulation and simulacra. POSTmodernISM: the cultural, artistic,
literary epiphenomenon of postmodernity. McHale and the change of dominant.
SOURCES:
 Baudrillard, Jean (1994) Simulacra and Simulation Ann Arbor: The University of
Michigan Press
 Calinescu, Matei (1987) Five Faces of Modernity. Modernism, Avant-Garde,
Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism Durham: Duke University Press
 Connor, Steven (1997) Postmodernist Culture. An Introduction to Theories of the
Contemporary Oxford: Blackwell
 Hutcheon, Linda (1989) The Politics of Postmodernism London & New York:
Routledge
 Jameson, Fredric (1991) Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
London & New York: Verso
 Lyotard, Jean Francois (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Manchester University Press
 Malpas, Simon (2005) The Postmodern New York: Routledge
 McHale, Brian (1987) Postmodernist Fiction Routledge
 McHale, Brian (1992) Constructing Postmodernism New York: Routledge
Weeks 3, 4:
I. JEAN RHYS – THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE IN WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Rhys and the ‘anxiety of influence’. WSS and Jane Eyre. Alternative histories/ anti-
histories. Textual worlds. Madness. Essentialist and constructivist narratives.
Hybridity. Creolisation. Liminality. The third space of enunciation. At the boundary:
epistemological/ontological dominants.
Weeks 5, 6:
II. JOHN FOWLES AND THE TEXTUAL WORLD ‘UNDER ERASURE’ – THE
FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN (1969)
PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CHAPTERS:

1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10,13,16,18,20,28,35,44,60,61
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
- historiografic metafiction - metafictional tendency to blur the boundaries between
story-telling and history – techniques (intertextuality, parody, pastiche, self-reflexivity,
fragmentation, the rewriting of history, and frame breaks)
- processes of history-writing and fiction-writing - assumptions about narrative and
about the nature of mimetic representation
- postmodern gaming – disruptions of fiction-reality boundaries – everything is text,
discourse - including history – deliberate anachronisms, crisscrossings of temporal layers,
multiple endings
- ontological dominant – constructions of identity of self, text, world
- authorial intrusions
- rewriting Victorian novels - fiction writing as recycling the past (historical, cultural,
literary)
 SECONDARY SOURCES (optional) see Reader

o Hutcheon, Linda: fragments from Chapter 2, “Postmodernist Representation” &
Chapter 3, “Re-presenting the Past” [in (1989) The Politics of Postmodernism London &
New York: Routledge]
o McHale, Brian (1987) Postmodernist Fiction London &New York: Routledge, pp.3-
11; 99-111
o Waugh, Patricia fragments from Chapter I (“What is metafiction and why are they
saying such awful things about it?”, pp. 1-19) & Chapter 2 (“Literary self-consciousness:
developments”, pp.21-43) [in (1984) Metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-
Conscious Fiction London & New York: Methuen]
Weeks 7, 8:
III. SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE HYBRID POST-COLONIAL TEXT –
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN (1981)

Book One: The perforated Sheet, Mercurochrome, Hit-the-spittoon, Under the Carpet, A
Public Announcement, Tick, tock
Book Two: The Fisherman’s Pointing Finger, Snakes and Ladders, All-India Radio, Love
in Bombay, My Tenth Birthday, The Kolynos Kid, Jamila Singer
Book Three: The Buddha, Abracadabra
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
- narrating the nation: memory and competing narratives of the nation - individual
(minor) v. ‘grand narratives’ of truth, the nation, history - undoing the self-justifying
narratives of both imperialism & post-imperial nationalism
- history conceived as an overwhelming superabundance of experience, a tumult of
competing voices - ‘chutnification’ of history – intended distortions of fact, chronology
- hybrid identity – mongrel – multiplicity of lives and fates quarrelling inside Saleem
Sinai’s body – relationship between self and otherness
- grotesqueness – parody, pastiche – breaks down distinctions between genres, modes
of discourse, linguistic levels – impurity, hybridity, heteroglossia
 SECONDARY SOURCES (optional): see Reader

o Rushdie, Salman (1991) Imaginary Homelands. Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
London: Granta Books, pp. 9-25
o Hutcheon, Linda: fragments from Chapter 3, “Re-presenting the Past” [in (1989) The
Politics of Postmodernism London & New York: Routledge]
o Bhabha, Homi K: “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”
from Wolfreys, Julian (ed.) (1999) Literary Theories Edinburgh University Press, pp.
474-480
Weeks 9, 10:
IV. ATOMIZING HISTORY: JULIAN BARNES – A HISTORY OF THE WORLD
IN 10 ½ CHAPTERS (1989)
PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO SECTIONS:

CXLIV. 1 The Stowaway; 3 The Wars of Religion; 5 Shipwreck; Parenthesis; 10
The Dream
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
- the end of history/ progress? – post-history?

- problematics: narrating (hi)stories: Interrogation of ideology (questioning "grand
narratives," problematizing closure, valorizing instability, suspecting coherence, and so
forth)
- circular process: progress leads only to more progress –dissolves the very meaning of
progress as a forward movement in history and as smth qualitatively different from what
precedes it
- history – broken down into an infinity of histories that can no longer be combined
into a single narrative - micro-histories
SECONDARY SOURCES (optional): see Reader

o Connor, Steve: fragments from Chapter 6 (Endings and Living On) in (1996) The
English Novel in History 1950-1995 London & New York: Routledge
Weeks 11, 12:

V. POSTMODERN FEMINIST DYSTOPIAS: MARGARET ATWOOD – THE
HANDMAID’S TALE (1985)

I (Night), II (Shopping), VI (Household), XIV (Salvaging), Historical Notes on ‘The
Handmaid’s Tale’
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
- dialogic rewriting of Orwell’s 1984 - dystopian projections of totalitarianism
- Foucauldian structure – panopticon (carceral archipelago) – ubiquitous exercise of
surveillance replacing the scenic, public display of corporal punishment (marks great
epistemic shift inaugurating age of modernity)
- Foucault: regimes of Power/Knowledge – Subjection = becoming a subject of power
+ subjectification, acquiring a sense of subjectivity - Human identity = discursively
constructed within a network of surveillance, power, control
- competing versions of “truth” – epilogue – postmodernist repudiation of grand
utopian narratives
- utopia – dystopia – heterotopia (provisional/transitional)

o Foucault, Michel: “Docile Bodies” and “Panopticism” (from Discipline and Punish)
in Rabinow, Paul (ed) (1984) The Foucault Reader Penguin Books, pp. 179-187; 206-213
Weeks 13, 14:

VI. ANGELA CARTER AND A ‘MICROPOLITICS OF DESIRE’ – THE
INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DR. HOFFMAN (1972)

Introduction; 1 (The City Under Siege); 8 (The Castle)
[pp. 11-38; 192-219]
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
- postmodern parody of fictions of male subjectivity and desire
- parodies both liberal humanist and postmodernist epistemologies – Lyotardian
incredulity towards grand narratives – reason v. desire - constructs a textual world torn by
a war between forces of rationality &. forces of desire
- Foucauldian heterotopology – surveying of counter-sites simultaneously serving to
contest the actual, real space & to explore the formation of new spatial/social/identity
configurations
- Baudrillardian simulacra – culture of surfaces, simulated depths
- Deleuze: from molar identities to molecular intensities – (arborescent/rhizomatic);
nomadology
- exploring notions of fluid bodily identity – fluid mergings of styles, genders, time
dimensions

o Baudrillard, Jean: “The Precession of Simulacra” (fragments from Simulacra and
Simulation (1994) Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-7; 12-14; 19-27)
o Deleuze, Gilles & Felix Guattari “A Thousand Plateaus” from Rivkin, Julie and
Michael Ryan (eds) (1998) Literary Theory: an Anthology Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 514-
523
o Foucault, Michel “ Of Other Spaces” Diacritics vol. 16 No. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 22-
27
CXLV. Modul de evaluare:
CLASS PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE: required (75%). Penalties will not be
imposed for your first 3 absences; thereafter, the 10% from your final course grade will
drop one grade for each session missed. Excessive absences may, nevertheless, result in
failure of the course.
LEADING CLASS DISCUSSION: Students may sign up individually or in pairs to give

presentations of a particular novel and to initiate discussion for one of the sessions.
questions.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: 2. The first will be a shorter (mid-term) class assignment

(probably at the beginning of December), requiring you to comment on a topic discussed
in the previous seminars (2 pages maximum). The final paper will be a more
comprehensive research paper (5-10 pages) on a topic of your choice in connection with
our readings (typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing). Late papers will be
penalized one grade for each missed deadline. Suggested date for handing in your essays:
last but one week in the semester (January).
GRADING:
PARTICIPATION TO CLASS DISCUSSIONS: 40%.
MID-TERM TEST: 20%.
END-OF-TERM PAPER: 30%. NOTA BENE: Outstanding presentations and class
contributions will exempt those students from having to write this paper.
CXLVI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Plagiarism will entail failure of the course.
CXLVII. Bibliografia opţională:
GUIDE TO THE READING MATERIAL:

The Reader, as you will notice, contains OPTIONAL/SECONDARY reading material –
theoretical essays – which provide background and explication for the topics analysed.
You do NOT have to read the Optional texts. However, you may choose to do so, since
they give you relevant material in the theoretical area for writing your essays. For those
students who feel they need further investigation of particular topics, I can make
supplementary secondary bibliography (criticism and theory) available to them on request
(on a short-term loan basis).


Semestrul II
Anul II Semestrul II
Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: SINTAXA LIMBII ENGLEZE
Codul: LE22221

Cabinetul M8
Obiective:
 să faciliteze înţelegerea de bază a structurilor sintactice din limba engleză
la nivelul grupurilor – nominal, verbal, prepoziţional
 să analizeze realizarea relaţiilor sintactice la acest nivel de grup
 să puncteze, prin extinderea relaţiilor sintactice, relaţiile
intrapropoziţionale şi funcţiile sintactice ale grupurilor
 să analizeze realizarea predicaţiei, complementizării şi relativizării
 să asigure însuşirea şi conştientizarea proceselor de coordonare şi
subordonare din perspectiva funcţional-comunicativă.
Conţinut:
Cap. I. RECAPITULAREA UNOR NOŢIUNI DE MORFOLOGIE:

Părţi de vorbire: substantivul, pronumele, adjectivul, adverbul, verbul, prepoziţia,
conjuncţia, interjecţia.
Cap. II. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE:
Grup nominal, grup prepoziţional, grup adjectival, grup verbal, grup adverbial.
Propoziţie. Frază.
Cap. III. TOPICA PROPOZIŢIEI SIMPLE:
Engleza ca limbă de tipul SVO.
Cap. IV. NIVELUL GRUPULUI (1):
Grupul nominal şi grupul prepoziţional.
Cap. V. NIVELUL GRUPULUI (2):
Grupul adjectival şi grupul adverbial.
Cap. VI. NIVELUL GRUPULUI (3):
Grupul verbal. Tipuri de verbe. Predicaţia.
Cap. VII. FUNCŢII SINTACTICE:
Definirea termenilor următori: subject, verb, predicate, direct object, indirect
object, prepositional object, subject complement, object complement, complement
of preposition, noun complement, adjective complement, determiner, pre-
modifier, post-modifier, adverbial modifier.
Cap. VIII. ACORDUL DINTRE SUBIECT ŞI PREDICAT:
Cazuri generale şi situaţii speciale.
Cap. IX. COORDONARE ŞI SUBORDONARE:
Clasificarea propoziţiilor şi a frazelor.
Cap. X. NIVELUL PROPOZIŢIEI (1):
Propoziţii relative, participiale şi infinitivale.
Cap. XI. NIVELUL PROPOZIŢIEI (2):
Propoziţii nominale.
Cap. XII. NIVELUL PROPOZIŢIEI (3):
Propoziţii adverbiale.
Cap. XIII. RECAPITULARE 1:
Propoziţiile subordonate şi funcţiile lor sintactice.
Cap. XIV. RECAPITULARE 2:
Analiza frazei.
Competenţe:
 cunoaşterea unor concepte şi termeni uzuali din domeniul sintaxei
engleze
 înţelegerea relaţiilor şi influenţelor dintre elementele componente ale unei
structuri sintactice (grup nominal, verbal, prepoziţional, propoziţie sau
frază)
 abilitatea de a identifica şi analiza diverse structuri sintactice, fie ele
grupuri nominale, verbale, prepoziţionale, fie propoziţii sau fraze.
Metode de predare:
 utilizarea unui curs interactiv cu fundament de prelegere
 discuţii pe baza unor exemple
 rezolvarea unor exerciţii practice de analiză sintactică
1. Broughton, Geoffrey: The Penguin English Grammar A-Z for Advanced Students,
Penguin Books, London, 1990 - Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca.
2. Budai, Laszlo: Gramatica engleză. Teorie şi exerciţii, Teora, Bucureşti, 1997 -
Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca.
3. Leech, Geoffrey: An A-Z English Grammar and Usage, Nelson, London, 1989 -
4. Preda, Alina: English Syntax in Use, Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca,
2006 - Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca.

didactic.

intermediare:
Curs – săpt.1.
Tematica: prezentarea disciplinei, a obiectivelor, a bibliografiei, programarea şi
organizarea activităţilor şi prezentarea modalităţilor de evaluare finală şi pe parcursul
semestrului.
Seminar – săpt.2.
Tematica: RECAPITULAREA UNOR NOŢIUNI DE MORFOLOGIE.
Concepte, cuvinte cheie:
 părţi de vorbire
 substantivul
 pronumele
 adjectivul
 adverbul
 verbul
 prepoziţia
 conjuncţia
 interjecţia
Curs – săpt. 3.
Tematica: DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE.
 grup nominal
 grup prepoziţional,
 grup adjectival,
 grup verbal,
 grup adverbial.
 propoziţie
 frază
Seminar – săpt. 4.
Tematica: TOPICA PROPOZIŢIEI SIMPLE - Engleza ca limbă de tipul SVO.
 clause
 sentence
 simple sentence
 subject
 verb
 object
 SVO
Curs – săpt. 5.
Tematica: NIVELUL GRUPULUI - Grupul nominal şi grupul prepoziţional
 head
 head noun
 determiner
 pre-modifier
 post-modifier
Obligaţia studenţilor: de a citi paginile corespunzătoare din bibliografie, conform

indicaţiilor de mai jos:
Preda, A. (2006) English Syntax in Use. Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană. Pp. 9-15
Tematica: NIVELUL GRUPULUI - Grupul adjectival şi grupul adverbial.
 adjective phrase
 adverb phrase
 complementation

Curs – săpt. 7.
Tematica: NIVELUL GRUPULUI - Grupul verbal. Tipuri de verbe. Predicaţia.
 verb phrase
 finite verbs
 non-finite verbs
 predication
 linking verbs
 transitive verbs
 intransitive verbs

Bibliografie:
Budai, L. (1997) Gramatica engleză. Teorie şi exerciţii. Bucureşti: Teora. Pp. 170-175
Leech, G. (1989), An A-Z English Grammar and Usage, Nelson. Entries for: nonfinite
verb, nonfinite verb phrase, participle, past participle, participle clause
Tematica: FUNCŢII SINTACTICE.
 subject,
 verb,
 predicate,
 direct object,
 indirect object,
 prepositional object,
 subject complement,
 object complement,
 complement of preposition,
 noun complement,
 adjective complement,
 adverbial modifier.
Curs – săpt. 9.
Tematica: ACORDUL DINTRE SUBIECT ŞI PREDICAT Cazuri generale şi situaţii
speciale.
 agreement
 concord
 subject
 predicate
 verb
Tematica: COORDONARE ŞI SUBORDONARE Clasificarea propoziţiilor şi a frazelor.
 coordination
 subordination
 independent clauses
 subordinate clauses
 simple sentence
 compound sentence
 complex sentence
 compound-complex sentence
Curs – săpt. 11.

Tematica: NIVELUL PROPOZIŢIEI - Propoziţii relative, participiale şi infinitivale.
 non-finite clause
 reduced relative clauses
 defining relative clauses
 non-defining relative clauses

Bibliografie:
Budai, L. (1997) Gramatica engleză. Teorie şi exerciţii. Bucureşti: Teora.. Pp. 439-443
Leech, G. (1989), An A-Z English Grammar and Usage, Nelson. Entries for: relative
clause, nondefining relative clause, defining relative clause, nominal clause

Tematica: NIVELUL PROPOZIŢIEI - Propoziţii nominale.
NIVELUL PROPOZIŢIEI - Propoziţii adverbiale.
 subordinate clauses
 nominal clauses
 adverbial clauses

Bibliografie:
Leech, G. (1989), An A-Z English Grammar and Usage, Nelson. Entries for: adverb,
adverbial, adverbial clause
Curs – săpt.13.
Tematica: RECAPITULARE 1: Propoziţiile subordonate şi funcţiile lor sintactice.
Obligaţia studenţilor: de a rezolva exerciţiile aflate la paginile corespunzătoare din

bibliografie, conform indicaţiilor de mai jos:
Bibliografie:

Tematica: RECAPITULARE 2: Analiza frazei.
Obligaţia studenţilor: de a rezolva exerciţiile aflate la paginile corespunzătoare din

bibliografie, conform indicaţiilor de mai jos:
Bibliografie:
60% din nota finală o reprezintă punctajul obţinut în urma examenului scris. Se evaluează
însuşirea cunoştinţelor teoretice şi capacitatea de a le pune în practică. Activitatea la oră
este luată în considerare, constituind 10% din nota finală. 30% din nota finală o
reprezintă punctajul obţinut în urma examenului susţinut la cursul practic.
Prezenţa la ore nu este obigatorie dar participarea activă este o componentă (10%) în nota
finală.
Creditare: 5 = 3 (SINTAXA) + 2 (CURS PRACTIC). Media se face doar daca a fost

promovat atât examenul de SINTAXA cât şi cursul practic.
Prezentarea la examen nu este condiţionată de număr minim de prezenţe sau lucrări

practice. Seminariile pierdute se pot recupera cu o altă grupă de studiu, cu acordul
titularului de curs.

1. *** Collins Cobuild English Grammar, Collins, London &Glasgow, 1990 - Biblioteca
Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca..
2. Leech, Geoffrey şi Svartvik, Jan: A Communicative Grammar of English, Longman,
London, 1975 - Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca..
3. Popa, Ecaterina: Elemente de sintaxă engleză, Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană,
Cluj-Napoca, 1997 - Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca.
4. Quirk, Randolph şi Greenbaum, Sidney: A University Grammar of English, Longman,
London, 1973 - Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca.

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Alina Preda
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic Idiomuri

Codul: LE 22221
CXLVIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Michaela Mudure, doctor in filologie

Ore de consultaţii: marti 11-12
CXLIX. Descrierea disciplinei:

Cursul urmareste familiarizarea studentilor cu idiomuri relevante, îmbunătăţirea
vocabularului şi a capacităţii de exprimare în limba engleză. Metode utilizate în predare:
exerciţii orale şi în scris, compuneri.
CL. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Allsop, Jake, Idioms, Buc. Teora, 1996

1990
CLI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Scurte filme video, materiale pentru însuşirea limbii engleze, realizate de BBC.
Materialele se imprumuta de la British Council sau sunt proprietatea titularului de curs.
CLII. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
Curs 1
Cuvinete cheie : Body Idioms
1990
Curs 2
Cuvinte cheie : Clothes Idioms
1990
Curs 3
Cuvinte cheie : colour Idioms
1990
Curs 4
Cuvinte cheie : Business-work Idioms
1990
Curs 5
Cuvinte cheie : Food Idioms
1990
Curs 6
Cuvinte cheie : Money Idioms
1990
Curs 7 mid term paper. Results will be discussed during office hours.
Curs 8
Cuvinte cheie : Time Idioms
1990
Curs 9
Cuvinte cheie : Number Idioms
1990
Curs 10
Cuvinte cheie : Health Idioms
1990
Curs 11
Cuvinte cheie : Sports Idioms
1990
Curs 12
Relationships Idioms
1990
Curs 13
Transportation Idioms
1990
Curs 14
Final paper
CLIII. Modul de evaluare:

2 lucrări de evaluare în timpul semestrului. Examen scris. Fiecare evaluare este 30% din
nota finală.
CLIV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Studentii trebuie sa fi dat lucrarea de verificare (mid-term) pentru a se prezenta la
examen.
CLV. Bibliografia opţională:
Trofin, Aurel, More American Idioms, Cluj, 1986.

Wood, Frederick T. English Colloquial Idioms, London, Macmillan, 1969

Semestrul I
I. Informaţii generale despre CURS (anul I, Engleza B)
Titlul disciplinei: GRAMMAR EXERCISES (EXERCITII GRAMATICALE)
Codul: LE 22221
Numărul de credite: -

CLVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

CLVII. Descrierea disciplinei:

[Obiectivele cursului/disciplinei, conţinutul acestuia, competenţele dobândite prin
absolvirea disciplinei, metodele utilizate în cazul predării, al seminarului sau al lucrărilor
practice – 10-20 de rînduri].
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
This course aims:

1. to provide the students with a general outline of important theoretical aspects
related to the usage of the English verbal tenses and modal verbs;
2. to enhance practically – through drills and exercises – the students’ capacity to use
the tenses and modal verbs at an advanced to proficiency level;
3. to develop the students’ awareness and critical understanding of the various
aspects surrounding, for instance, the sequence of tenses or various means of
expressing modality in English;
4. to encourage the students’ reflexive learning through engagement in productive
discussion and analysis of a range of contextual situations that pertain to the course
syllabus
and discussion on the principal reading assignments for each class. Students will be
encouraged to chart very punctually the theoretical issues pertaining to a correct usage of
the English verbal tenses and modal verbs. All required reading should be completed
before class.
CLVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Under COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY are listed the theoretical and practical

textbooks that are considered to be representative for the grammatical aspects covered by
this course. These works are ranked as obligatory for all the students attending this
course. All required chapters should be tackled prior to attending each class.
- Most of the titles included in the list of Compulsory Bibliography can be
found at the English Library, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, or at the
British Council Library, either as separate items, or as copies provided by
the teacher.
- Alternatively, students can also consult the relevant chapters from these
works in the Reader which has been compiled by the tutor and has been
placed at the English Department Library:
1. Morris, Susan & Alan Stanton. The Nelson Proficiency Course and Workbook.
Revised Ed. London: Nelson, 1991, 1994
2. O’Connell, Sue. Focus on Proficiency. Longman, 1995
3. O’Connell, Sue. Advanced English. CAE Practice Tests with Guidance. Longman,
1993
4. Walton, Richard. Advanced English. CAE Grammar Practice. London: Nelson, 1994
5. Vince, Michael. Advanced Language Practice. Oxford: Heinemann, 1994
6. Side, Richard & Guy Wellman. Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced
and Proficiency. Longman, 1999
7. Sinclair, John (ed.). Collins Cobuild English Grammar. London & Glasgow: Collins,
1990
8. Chalker, Sylvia. A Student’s English Grammar Workbook. Longman, 1992
9. Gethin, Hugh. Grammar in Context. Proficiency Level English. Longman, 1992
CLIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
1. The mini-lectures will be delivered using an overhead projector (supplied by the

Faculty of Letters) or power-point presentations. This will provide the students with an
outline of each session structure and with a clear signposting of the major theoretical
issues covered.
2. Each practical course will have an accompanying handout, charting the key points to
be discussed, as well as specifying the (suggested) amount of time allotted for each
activity, such as teacher input, student follow-up, etc. After the completion of each
course, these serial handouts will be placed in a special folder at English Library, Faculty
of Letters, Cluj-Napoca.
CLX. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
course outline
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTORY COURSE.

Diagnostic test. Through fill-in or rephrase exercises, this will test
the students’ mastery of the grammar aspects targeted by the
course at its outset.
WEEK 2: THE ENGLISH VERBAL TENSES. THE SIMPLE PRESENT

AND THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
Theoretical aspects (teacher input) and grammar exercises.

AND THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE (CONTINUED)
Theoretical aspects (teacher input) and grammar exercises.

PERFECT AND THE PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
Theoretical aspects (teacher input) and grammar exercises

PERFECT AND THE PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
(CONTINUED)
WEEK 6: THE ENGLISH VERBAL TENSES. THE SIMPLE PAST AND

THE PAST PROGRESSIVE
WEEK 7: THE ENGLISH VERBAL TENSES. THE SIMPLE PAST

PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
WEEK 8: THE ENGLISH VERBAL TENSES. MEANS OF EXPRESSING

FUTURE TIME
WEEK 9: MID-TERM TEST
This test is designed to assess the students’ progress and mastery of
the verbal tenses.
WEEK 10: THE MODAL VERBS. EXPRESSING ABILITY,

PERMISSION, POSSIBILITY
WEEK 11: THE MODAL VERBS. EXPRESSING EXPECTATION,

ASSUMPTION, CONCLUSION
WEEK 12: THE MODAL VERBS. EXPRESSING OBLIGATION,

ABSENCE OF OBLIGATION, DUTY AND ARRANGEMENT
WEEK 13: REVISION: THE TENSES AND THE MODAL VERBS

grammar exercises
WEEK 14: END-OF-TERM TEST
CLXI. Modul de evaluare:

GRADING: The final grade for this course will be derived from the following sources:
CLASS PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE: 10%. Penalties will not be imposed for
your first 3 absences; thereafter, the 10% from your final grade will drop one grade for
each session missed. Excessive absences may, nevertheless, result in failure of the course.
PARTICIPATION TO CLASS DISCUSSION: 10%.
MID-TERM TEST: 30%
END-OF-TERM TEST: 50% A substantial percentage of your final overall grade will
come from the FINAL TEST, which will comprise several grammar exercises from the
course topics. The final grades will be posted within one week of the final examination
date.
CLXII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
The students’ lack of proper examination ethics will incur failure of the course.
NOTA BENE: Exceptional seminar contributions and presentations may exempt you
from having to write the Home assignment.
CLXIII. Bibliografia opţională:
Apart from the Bibliography included in the Reader, in the list below you can find further
reliable theoretical and practical surveys of the grammar aspects covered by this course.
Students are warmly encouraged to consult such alternative bibliographical sources,
which can be found at the English Department’s Library or at the British Council Library.
1. Galateanu Farnoaga Georgiana, Exercitii si teste de gramatica engleza, Editura

Paralela 45, 2008
2. Zdrenghea, Mihai Mircea & Anca Luminita Greere, A Practical English
Grammar with Exercises. Clusium, 1999
3. Galea, Ileana & Virgil Stanciu, Engleza cu lacrimi, Editura Dacia, 2002
Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular curs,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Carmen
Borbely

Titlul disciplinei: Limba Engleza: Tehnici de comunicare / Techniques of
Communication
Codul: LE 22221
CLXIV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau
laborator
CLXV.Descrierea disciplinei:
by helping them to develop further their language skills (the reading, writing, listening
and speaking skills). During the first semester of the second year of study the Reading
Skill is aimed at while in the second semester besides the development of English
language skills the course aims at work in raising teaching and learning awareness. The
language development exercises have as support content that refers to teaching and
learning and is intended mainly for those students who are interested in better
understanding how teaching and learning English are linked. It also gives them both some
theoretical and practical information (it combines tutor input with student participation
based on personal experience and reading provided by the tutor).
(limba romana)
Obiectivul principal al cursului practic este imbunataţirea capacitaţii de comunicare in
inţelegere - citire in semestrul I.
In semestrul al doilea textele şi exerciţiile folosite ca suport de curs se refera la predarea
şi invaţarea limbii engleze. Cursul va da studenţilor informaţii teoretice şi practice legate
de predarea şi invaţarea limbii engleze şi se bazeaza pe participarea şi interacţiunea dintre
studenţi şi profesor pe parcursul orelor cat şi pe baza materialelor citite de studenţi.
CLXVI. Bibliografia obligatorie:
The course books and reading that are to be used for the course are available in the
faculty reading room of the English language library. Photocopies provided by the
teacher.
Carţile exista la sala de lectura ‚limbi germanice’ a facultaţii şi profesorul va aduce la ore
fotocopii pentru studenţi.
Harmer, J. (1989) Teaching and Learning Grammar. London and New York. Longman
Harmer, J. (1993) The Practice of English Language Teaching. Longman
Hubbard, J and Wheller, T. (1990) A Training Course for TEFL .Oxford University
Jones, L. 1995 Progress to Proficiency CUP (PP)
Jones, L 1994 Cambridge Advanced English CUP (CA)
Parrott, M. 1993 Tasks for language teachers A resource book for training and
development CUP
Popa, E. (1995) Aspects of Theory and Practice in Teaching English as a Foreign
Language. Sibiu. Hermann Press
Spratt, M. 1994 English for the teacher A language development course CUP (M.S.)
Ur, P. 1996 A course in language teaching Practice and theory CUP (P.U.)
CLXVII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Casetofon, CD-player, retroproiector din dotarea catedrei de limba engleza si vodeo
player din dotarea facultatii.
CLXVIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 1. ABOUT COMMUNICATION // M.S.(U.1; pp. 7-9) / discussion, reading /
What does a textbook consist of? / Things humans use to communicate with each other.
"Gains from exchanges"
Week 2. ABOUT LANGUAGE LEARNING // M.S. (U.2; pp. 14-19) / discussion,
listening, assessing written work / quiz (Ellis & Sinclair) /Interview with Emmah /
Correcting mistakes in a composition / Good learner & good teacher
Week 3. TEACHING THE SKILLS - LISTENING P.U.(pp.105-15) / input, questions
and discussion / introducing an activity (M.S.:12-13) / Real life listening / Learner
problems / Types of activities
Week 4. - SPEAKING // P.U. (pp.120-135) / input, questions & discussion / introducing
an activity (M.S.: 20) /Oral fluency practice, types of task / Kinds of spoken interaction/
Role play / Oral testing
Week 5. - READING // P.U. (pp138-150) / input, questions & discussion/ introducing
an activity (M.S.:28) / How do we read? /Types of reading activities / Improving reading
skills
Week 6. – WRITING // P.U. (pp.159-170)/ input, questions & discussion/ introducing
an activity (M.S.:36) / Written versus spoken text / Tasks that stimulate writing/ Giving
feedback on writing
Week 7. TALKING ABOUT COURSEBOOKS P.U.(pp.183- 192) // M.S.(U.4; pp.29-
33)/ listening / reading/ looking at textbooks / Interview with teachers of English about
coursebooks / Choosing a coursebook
Week 8. TEACHING THE LANGUAGE - pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, topics,
functions AND LITERATURE // input, practical activity based on coursebooks / The
language levels / Language improvement, tasks and activities,
Week 9. SYLLABUS & LESSON PLANNING P.U.(pp. 176-9; 213-22) // input,
practical activity based on coursebooks & video / lesson preparation, criteria for
evaluating lesson effectiveness, examples of lesson plans (Parrott)
Week 10. IN THE CLASSROOM // P.U. (pp. 227-33, 242, 246-50, 259-64) / discussion
based on video-ed lesson clips/ Classroom interaction (patterns) /Giving feedback
(correcting mistakes & errors)/ Classroom discipline
Week 11. LEARNER MOTIVATION, GENDER & AGE P.U. (pp.273-312); M.S.
(U.14, pp.110-115) // input, video, discussion / listening, reading / kinds of motivation /
teaching children, adolescents & adults
Week 12. TESTING // P.U. (pp.33-42) / doing a test and discussion / What are tests for?
Types of test and test administration
Week 13
presentation
Week 14
presentation
CLXIX. Modul de evaluare:

 a reading practice test during the first semester
 an oral presentation during the second semester.
(limba romana)
intelegere – citire (semestrul I) si o prezentare orala (semestrul II) si nota acordata pentru
CLXX. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

CLXXI. Bibliografia opţională:

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist.drd. Anamaria
Florescu
Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de idiomuri

Codul: LE22221
CLXXII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CLXXIII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest curs practic urmareste extinderea si consolidarea vocabularului englezesc al
studentilor prin introducerea si familiarizarea lor cu expresii idiomatice specifice limbii
engleze. Desi axat in mod special pe acestea din urma, cursul practic acopera si o variata
gama de probleme gramaticale (cum ar fi timpurile verbale) si de vocabular (verbe cu
particula adverbiala), precum si principalele probleme de corespondenta/traducere cu
limba romana. Este bazat pe o abordare interactiva si comunicativa a predarii si invatarii
limbii engleze.
Obiective:
 consolidarea si extinderea vocabularului
 consolidarea si extinderea cunostintelor de gramatica
 practica unor expresii idiomatice uzuale in conversatii care mimeaza contexte
autentice
 furnizarea de informaţii generale asupra organizarii expresiilor idiomatice in
limba engleza
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a folosi corect structuri gramaticale specifice
 capacitatea de a folosi corect expresii idiomatice specifice
 capacitatea de a gasi corespondentele semantice in limba romana
Metode:
 discuţii interactive
 rezolvari de exercitii
CLXXIV. Bibliografia obligatorie (toate materialele vor fi disponibile într-un

dosar aflat la bibliotecă):
Milton, James, Virginia Evans. A Good Turn of Phrase. Advanced Idiom Practice.
Express Publishing, 2000. Express Publishing, 2000.
Milton, James, Virginia Evans. A Good Turn of Phrase; Advanced Practice in Phrasal
Verbs and Prepositional Phrases. Express Publishing, 2000.
CLXXV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CLXXVI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

general l frame of the practical course, methods an materials to be used.
Week 2:
Topic: risk
Week 3:
Topic: crime
Week 4:
Topic: education
Students’ tasks: oral and written practice: A Good Turn of Phrase (idioms), Unit 10 (31-
33); peer response.
Week 5:
Topic: practical matters
Week 6:
Topic: relationships 1
Week 7:
Topic: revision
Students’s task: midterm quiz!!!
Week 8:
Week 9:
Week 10:
Topic: the working life
Week 11:
Topic: relationships 2
Week 12
vocabulary.
Week 13
Week 14: QUIZ TEST; conclusions and feed-back.
CLXXVII. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

Nota finală constă din nota parţiala obţinuta (30%), nota pentru testul final (40%),
prezenţa şi participarea la ore (30%).
CLXXVIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

exmatricularea studentului.
CLXXIX. Bibliografia opţională:
Cacciari, Cristina and Patrizia Tabossi. Idioms: Processing, Structure, and Interpretation.
Larence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
Dobson, Julia. Effective Techniques for English Conversation. Newbury House
Publishing, 1974.
Moon, Rosamund. Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-based Approach.
Clarendon Press, 1998.

Semestrul 1-2

Codul: LE 22221
CLXXX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CLXXXI. Descrierea disciplinei:

This practical course involves the active participation of students, working both
individually and in teams, in developing writing skills in the English language. It focuses
on the production of multiple written discourses, trying to underscore the critical and
creative sides of writing.
Objectives:
 providing the abilities of producing various kinds of written discourses clearly,
correctly, coherently but in a personal voice
 adapting students’ writing style to the linguistic register required by the discourse
 introducing distinctions between types of compositions and stylistic devices
adapted to them
 improving the students’ knowledge of written and spoken English
 developing students’ abilities to organize their ideas in a logical and coherent
manner
 developing students’ research skills
Competences:
 the ability to produce various types of written texts (personal, narrative,
argumentative, descriptive, literary, academic essay)
 manipulating linguistic registers and stylistic devices
 developing the ability to focus on a given topic, avoiding unnecessary digressions,
and organize the exposition in an effective, reader-oriented manner
 using text organizers (connectors, paragraphs, cohesion devices)
 researching and communicating the results of the research
 distinguishing between research and plagiarism
Methods:
 collective and individual drafting of essays
 class debates on given topics of the essays
 individual production of fully-written essays
 individual and group presentations essays written at home
 feedback and assessment of colleagues’ work
CLXXXII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
.
CLXXXIII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CLXXXIV. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
suggestion letters.
other’s drafts.
Week 3:
other’s drafts.
Week 4:
other’s drafts.
Week 5:
Week 6:
sources.
Week 7:
other’s drafts.
Week 8:
Week 9:
Topic: study skills
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
publication.
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
Week 12:
other’s drafts.
Week 13:
other’s drafts.
CLXXXV. Modul de evaluare:

(“continuous assessment”): the final grade consists of:
- the grades of the essays written during the semester (50%)
- the grade of the final essay (20%)
- class attendance and class participation. (30%)
CLXXXVI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:


Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Asist. dr. Mihalycsa Erika
Universitatea „Babeş-Bolyai“, Cluj-Napoca
Anul universitar: 2009 - 2010
Semestrul: 2 (Specializarea: limba şi literatura engleză secundar)

Titlul disciplinei: Literatura engleza: Victorianismul şi literatura secolului XIX
Codul: LE22261
Locul de desfăşurare: conform orarului.
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform orarului.
CLXXXVII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Conf. dr. Adrian Radu

Informaţii de contact: aradu@lett.ubbcluj.ro
Ore de audienţă: conform programării de la cabinet
CLXXXVIII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiectivele cursului / disciplinei
Acest curs este menit sa familiarizeze studenţii cu literatura epocii victoriene engleze, in
general, cu principalele manifestări literare şi cu cele mai importante nume de pe scena
literară din perioada respectivă, in particular. Deşi cursul este direcţionat asupra
scriitorilor din Anglia victoriană, abordarea este tematică in cazul fiecărui autor discutat.
Se includ un număr de texte specifice epocii având drept scop să îi deprindă pe studenţi
cu ceea ce s-a creat pe plan cultural-literar in aceşti ani, să îi facă să discearnă
modalitatea cum problemele şi tendinţele epocii respective se reflectă în creaţiile
non-literare (eseul) şi literare (proza şi poezia) de atunci şi gradul în care acestea au putut
satisface orizontul de aşteptare al cititorilor victorieni.
Conţinut
Part 1: Victorian England and the spirit of the age: the historical and social context:
the cultural context and the Victorian frame of mind.
Part 2: Victorian nonfiction: (1) Representatives: Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin,
Matthew Arnold. Walter Pater. (2) Aestheticism and decadence.
Part 3: Victorian Poetry. (1) Representatives: Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning,
Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Ch. Swinburne, Gerard M. Hopkins.
(2) Victorian forms: the idyll and the dramatic monologue. (3) Pre-Raphaelitism.
Part 4: The Victorian Novel. (1) Representatives: Charles, Dickens, William M.
Thackeray, the Brontë Sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy. (2) the
Condition of England novels. (3) Victorian narrative techniques. (4) Gender.
Competenţele dobândite
 de a înţelege spiritul epocii,

 de a discerne principalele tendinţe literare ale epocii, principalii scriitori ai epocii şi
specificitatea textelor produse de aceştia,
 de a analiza o poezie din punct de vedere tematic şi al tehnicii versificaţiei,
 de a discerne cum se manifestă realismul critic si analiza socială în romanele studiate,
 de a înţelege începuturile mişcării feministe din Anglia victoriană,
 de a discuta şi motiva diferitele metode narative din romanele victoriene.
Metode utilizate
 utilizarea unui curs interactiv cu fundament de prelegere,

 discuţii în cadrul cursului pe baza unor extrase de texte,
 discutarea conceptelor,
 analizarea textelor din punct de vedere conceptual şi ideatic
 utilizarea de studii de caz la nivelul seminariilor.
CLXXXIX. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Volumele de mai jos se găsesc la Biblioteca de engleză a Facultăţii de Litere (cele

marcate cu BE) sau la British Council Library (cele marcate cu BCL).
Bibliografie literară:
Textele marcate cu asterisc (*) sunt obligatorii. Se acceptă orice ediţie.
Matthew Arnold: *‘Dover Beach’.
Alfred Tennyson : ‘The Palace of Art’, ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘The Lotos Eaters’,
‘Ulysses’, ‘Idylls of the King: *‘The Passing of Arthur’, In Memoriam: *LVI (‘‘So careful
of the type?’ but no.’), *‘Crossing the Bar’.
Robert Browning: ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’, ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’,
‘Frà Lippo Lippi, ‘Andrea del Sarto’ *‘My Last Duchess’, *‘Porphyria’s Lover’.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: *‘The Blessed Damozel’, The House of Life: *‘Nuptial Sleep’.
Algernon Charles Swinburne: ‘Dolores’, ‘The Garden of Proserpine’, *‘The Triumph of
Time’.
Charles Manley Hopkins: ‘The Starlight Night’, *‘The Windhover’.
Charles Dickens: *Hard Times, Bleak House.
William M. Thackeray: *Vanity Fair.
Charlotte Brontë : *Jane Eyre, Shirley.
Emily Brontë : *Wuthering Heights.
Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South.
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss, *Middlemarch.
Thomas Hardy: *Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Radu, Adrian. ‘Victorian Literature: Text extracts’. Abreviat “TE” în desfăşurătorul de
mai jos.(BE şi www.lett.ubbcluj.ro/~aradu)
Bibliografie critică
Allen, Walter. The English Novel. London: Penguin, 1958. (BE)
Baugh, Alfred C., ed. A Literary History of England. Second edition. Vol. 4: The
Nineteenth Century and After. By Samuel C. Chew and Richard D. Altick. London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1967. (BE)
Bristow, Joseph, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2000. (BCL)
Cutitaru, Codrin Liviu. The Victorian Novel. Iasi: ‘Al. I. Cuza’ UP, 2004. (BE)
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. Second edition. London: Secker
& Warburg, 1969. (BE)
David, Deirdre, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2001. (BCL)
Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 6: From Dickens to Hardy.
London: Penguin, 1969. (BE)
Galea, Ileana. Victorianism and Literature. Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 2000. (BE)
Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990. (BCL)
CXC. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
Computer si proiector PowerPoint asigurate de facultate.
CXCI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Saptamana 1: Victorian England: background, frame of mind and writing
The political and social background of Victorian England. The Industrial Revolution and
aftermath. The cultural background and the spirit of the age. Formative theories:
Utilitarianism and Darwinism. The crisis of belief. The literature of the age as meeting
ground for traditionalism and modernism. The novel as dominant Victorian literary genre:
critical realism, serialisation, narrative techniques, the condition of England novels.
Directions in Victorian poetry: poetry and Utilitarianism, marginalisation and elitism,
continuators and innovators, the problem of content and form.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: utilitarianism, traditionalism, modernism, serial

novel, installment, realism, mimesis, narrative technique, dramatic monologue, elitism
and marginalisation.
Bibliografie
Ford (59-119), Baugh (1279-86, 1448-54), (Galea (9-53).
Saptamana 2: Society and anti-Utilitarianism: Thomas Carlyle and Matthew

Arnold
Thomas Carlyle: the credit of power and leadership (The French Revolution and On
Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History). Matthew Arnold: disinterested
criticism, education and the goals of poetry (‘The Function of Criticism at the Present
Time’ and ‘The Study of Poetry’), society and awareness (Culture and Anarchy).
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: docudrama, cinematic technique, Divine Justice,

hero, Messiah, Hebraism, Hellenism, Barbarians, Philistines, Populace.
Bibliografie
Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (TE 18), Mathew
Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (TE 19).
Ford (294-308, 309-23), Baugh (1309-21, 1412-5), Galea (40-50).
Saptamana 3: Dominance of art: John Ruskin and Walter Horatio Pater
John Ruskin: the aesthetic and moral argument (Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice
and The Seven Lamps of Architecture). Walter Horatio Pater: hedonism and
aestheticism (Studies in the History of the Renaissance: Conclusion, Marius the
Epicurean).
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: art, moral virtue, morality, Gothic, ecologism,
impressionism, hedonism, aestheticism, decadence.
Bibliografie
John Ruskin: Modern Painters (TE 18), W. H. Pater: Studies in the History of the
Renaissance: ‘Conclusion’ (TE 19).
Ford (294-308, 89-90), Galea (51-52), Daiches (966-72, 986-90), Baugh (1475-9).
Saptamana 4: Late romanticism and neo-classicism: Matthew Arnold, Alfred

Tennyson
Reason and balance. M. Arnold: neo-classicism and the poetry of meditation (‘Dover
Beach’). A. Tennyson: existential dilemmas: the condition of the poet, activism vs.
retreat (‘The Palace of Art’ and ‘The Lady of Shalott’); existence vs. life, commitment vs.
withdrawal (‘The Lotos Eaters’ and ‘Ulysses’); the heroic expectation (Idylls of the King:
‘The Passing of Arthur’); the significance of life and death (In Memoriam and ‘Crossing
the Bar’).
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: neo-classicism, discipline of form, eclogue,

meditation, loss of faith, pastoral elegy, English idyll, activism, withdrawal, condition of
the poet, monodrama, allegory,
Bibliografie
Matthew Arnold: ‘Dover Beach’ (TE 3), Alfred Tennyson: ‘The Passing of Arthur’
(TE 3); In Memoriam: LVI (‘So careful of the type?’ but no.’) (TE 4); ‘Crossing the
Bar’(TE 4).
Ford (227-44), Daiches (995-1002), Baugh (1382-91).
Saptamana 5: The dramatic monologue: Robert Browning
The dominance of form (the dramatic monologue) and the search for objectivity; holy
orders and worldly vanities (‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’ and ‘The Bishop Orders
Hid Tomb’); the dimensions of the artist (‘Frà Lippo Lippi’ and ‘Andrea del Sarto’); the
condition of the woman (‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’); culpability and the
challenge of the multiple point of view (The Ring and the Book).
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: dramatic monologue, objective poetry, soliloquy,

condition of the woman, distorted psychology, multiple point of view.
Bibliografie
Robert Browning: ‘My Last Duchess’ (TE 4); ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ (TE 5).
Saptamana 6: The Pre-Raphaelite Movement: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon C.

Swinburne
Divergence and renovation. Pre-Raphaelitism and the re-discovery of early

medievalism. The search for detail, colour and form in painting and poetry. D. G.
Rossetti, sensuality and tone: The House of Life: ‘Nuptial Sleep’), painting and poetry
(‘The Blessed Damozel’). A. C. Swinburne: pagan beauty and forbidden joys (‘The
Triumph of Time’, ‘The Garden of Proserpine’, ‘Dolores’).
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: academicism, mannerism, conventionalism,

medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism, impressionism, ut pictura poesis, antitheism, paganism,
hypnotic effect, alliteration, assonance, repetition, intoxicating rhythm, musicality, sea
imagery, metrical display.
Bibliografie
D. G. Rossetti: ‘Nuptial Sleep’ (TE 5); ‘The Blessed Damozel’ (TE 5), A. Ch. Swinburne:
‘The Triumph of Time’ (TE 6); ‘Dolores’ (TE 7).
Ford (352-70, 353-74, 90-3), Daiches (1018-21, 1029-33), Baugh (1421-6, 1439-47).
Saptamana 7: Prosodic renovation: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Religious dogma, God and power, the rediscovery of form and new prosodic techniques:
‘inscape’, ‘instress’ and ‘sprung rhythm’; ‘The Starlight Night’, ‘The Windhover’.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: inscape, instress, sprung rhythm, alliteration,

assonance, repetition, echo, compressed syntax, versification.
Bibliografie
G. M. Hopkins: ‘The Starlight Night’ (TE 7); ‘The Windhover’ (TE 7).
Proiect de cercetare: Victorian poetry and representation.

Saptamana 8: The condition of England novel: Charles Dickens
Critical realism and entertainment. Charles Dickens: the comedy of life; Hard Times the
novel of ‘hard facts men’; industrial revolution and Utilitarianism, education and
schooling, fathers and children. Bleak House: Victorian London and criticism of Victorian
institutions; narrative technique.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: condition of England, industrial revolution,

ecologism, Utilitarianism, philosophy of facts, education.
Bibliografie
Ch. Dickens: Hard Times (romanul şi TE 7-8).
Allen (159-74), Galea (73-88), Ford (135-7), Daiches (1049-59).
Saptamana 9: The human comedy: William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: upstarts and games of love and vanity, the novel ‘without a hero’; the
condition of the author: omniscience / partial omniscience vs. deconstruction /
desacralisation, the self-reflexive text. The History of Henry Esmond: meditation on life
and manners, history and story, history and fiction.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: ustarts, arrivism, (partial) omniscience,

desacralisation, metafiction, self-reflexive text, history, story, fiction.
Bibliografie
W. M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair (romanul şi TE 9-10).
Allen (174-82), Galea (89-106), Ford (147-53), Daiches (1059-64).
Saptamana 10: Feminism and emancipation: Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: the (pseudo)-autobiographical approach, romantic imagery and the new
Gothic. Jane’s initiatic life experience towards assertion of her own female self, the motif
of enclosure and escape, the drama of reason and passion: Jane vs. Mr Rochester, the
complex of the ‘madwoman in the attic’; Shirley: regionalism, economic troubles and
historical events, strategies of the omniscient writer, feminism and power.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: feminism, passion, reason, ‘red room’, enclosure and
escape, the madwoman in the attic, the condition of the woman, regional novel, first-
person narration, autobiography.
Bibliografie
Ch. Brontë: Jane Eyre (romanul şi TE 11).
Allen (180-90), Galea (114-126), Daiches (1064-6), Ford (256-8).
Saptamana 11:Victorian locale – re-creation and re-presentation: George Eliot
G. Eliot: Middlemarch: ruralism and microcosm of English life in the pre-industrial age;
omniscience, multiplot structure and gallery of characters; feminism, female assertion
and the woman’s condition, Dorothea Brooke’s case: intellect vs. passion; Tertius Lydgate
and the intellectual tension; The Mill on the Floss: lights and shadows of brotherly love,
passion vs. social conventions.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: ruralism, microcosm, condition of the woman, St

Theresa, intellect, passion, structure, psychological novel, environment, unhistoric acts,
social network.
Bibliografie
G. Eliot: Middlemarch (romanul şi TE 14-6).
Saptamana 12: The tempest in the soul: Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights: the tempest in the soul, setting and cosmic order, condition of man
and new cosmogony. The Gondal heroes revisited: Catherine and Heathcliff and their
story of love and passion, Heathcliff and the drama of the misfit. Narrative technique:
effects of using narrators.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: myth, a-chronology, a-temporal space, interior time,
disruption of chronology, multiple narrators, character narrator, enclosure, prison(er).
Bibliografie
Emily Brontë: ‘Remembrance’ (TE 12); Wuthering Heights (romanul şi TE 13).
Saptamana 13: The condition of man: Thomas Hardy
Destiny and the tragic condition of man, Greek drama and the principle of fate and
predestination; unity of space: Wessex, nature as correlative of the human mind and
condition. Tess of the d’Urbervilles: destiny and tragedy of human flaws. Tess, a ‘pure
woman’ (?). Jude the Obscure and the conflict between flesh and spirit, instinct and
civilisation.
Cuvinte cheie si concepte de baza: pessimism, fatalism, casualty, predestination,

Immanent Will, fate, Blind Destiny, Wessex, (ancient) tragedy, catharsis, sacrifice, nature
symbolism, flesh, spirit.
Bibliografie
Th. Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (romanul şi TE 17).
Galea (180-201), Daiches (1073-82), Ford (406-19), Baugh (1464-74).
Proiect de cercetare: The Victorian novel and representation.

Saptamana 14: Susţinerea proiectelor de cercetare
CXCII. Modul de evaluare:
 Proiecte de cercetare (participare activă etc.) (pondere: 25%),

 examen de sfârşit de semestru (lucrare scrisa si / sau verificare orala – după caz)
CXCIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
 Prezenţa la cursul magistral nu este obligatorie, prezenta la seminarul de

specialitate: 75%.
 Pentru cele 6 credite aferente disciplinei se iau in calcul notele de la seminarul
special ales de studenţi în semestrul respectiv iar nota finala se calculează astfel:
(Sem. special + 2 x Lit. Victoriana) : 3. Condiţia promovării şi obţinerii celor 6
credite este promovarea fiecărei componente în parte.
 Plagiatul si frauda va determina automat sistarea procesului de examinare şi
evaluarea cu nota 1 (unu). Se va solicita conducerii facultăţii exmatricularea
studentului in cauza conform regulamentului.
 La afişarea rezultatelor examenului se va menţiona adresa de email la care
studenţii pot afla detalii despre lucrările lor precum şi data şi ora când studenţii
pot sa-si vadă lucrările.
 Orice contestaţie a notei obţinute se va depune în termen de 2 zile de la afişarea
rezultatului şi va trebui însoţită de o cerere din partea studentului pentru
reevaluarea lucrării. Această reevaluare se va face de faţă cu studenţii în decurs de
2 zile de la data depunerii contestaţiei.
CXCIV. Bibliografia opţională:
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. London: Yale University
Press, 1984.
Harvey, Sir Paul, ed. and comp. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford:
Oxford UP. 1967. (BE)
Sampson, George. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1972. (BE)
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society. London: The Hogarth Press, 1993. (BCL)
Turner, Paul. Victorian Poetry, Drama and Miscellaneous Prose: 1832-1890. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 1989. (BCL)
The Victorian Web. < www.victorianweb.org >.
Decan, Şef de catedra, Titular de curs,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Adrian Radu
Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Seminar special de roman şi teatru britanic

Codul: LE22261
CXCV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CXCVI. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest seminar special urmăreşte să familiarizeze studenţii cu evoluţia expresiei dramatice
de la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea până în secolul al XX-lea, intepretând drama atât ca
spectacol vizual, cât şi ca text scris. Este un seminar interactiv axat pe cinci piese, a căror
selecţie se doreşte reprezentativă pentru strategiile dramatice utilizate în literatura
britanică modernă. Se furnizează concepte ale teoriei dramei, integrate într-un „close
reading” al pieselor ca texte, fără a se neglija dimensiunea performativă a acestora.
Fiecare piesă este interpretată ca un eveniment contextualizat al actului de comunicare
dintre autor şi public, un eveniment care reinventează şi reinterpretează istoria genului
dramatic.
CXCVII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

G. B. Shaw, Arms and the Man
G. B. Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Harold Pinter, The Caretaker
Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter
CXCVIII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
fişe de lucru, imagini, materiale produse de titularul de curs, ecranizări ale pieselor
studiate.
CXCIX. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2: the modern shift: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Key words: comedy of manners revisited, aestheticism, linguistic awareness, Irishness,
post-Victorianism.
Students tasks: reading the text, individual presentations, contributing to class debates.
Week 3: melodrama and the modern theatre: G. B. Shaw, Arms and the Man, Caesar and
Cleopatra
Key words: plot and character, the historical character.
MIDTERM PAPER SUBMISSION!!!!
Week 4: the shift from character to plot: the angry fifties: John Osborne, Look Back in
Anger”
Key words: theatre of anger, anti-modernism, realism, social concerns, working class
drama, dissolution of tradition.
Week 5: action and performance: identity and alterity, Harold Pinter, The Caretaker
Key words: absurdism/existentialism vs. postmodernist theatre, deconstruction of
language.
Week 6: action and performance: H. Pinter, The Dumb Waiter

Key words: deconstruction of plot and character, otherness, silence vs language,
representing through the body/gestures.
Week 7: final quiz.
VII. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.


atare.

Martin Esslin, An Anatomy of Drama(1978), London: Harmondsworth, Penguin;
Adrian Marino, Dictioar de concepte literare(1984), Bucuresti
Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw(1988), New York: Random House
John Russel Taylor, Anger and After (1969), London: Methuen , pp. 13-15; 197-199; 285-
316; 324-325
Raymond Williams, “Recent English Drama” in Boris Ford, The Modern Age (1984),
London: Penguin

Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Seminar special romanul şi drama britanică

Codul: LE22261
CC. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CCI. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest seminar special are ca scop familiarizarea studenţilor cu dezvoltarea teatrului şi
expresiei dramatice în spaţiul britanic, începând de la sfârşitul sec. XIX şi până la a doua
jumătate a sec. XX, cu metoda de lectură a dramei ca text şi piesă teatrală în acelaşi timp.
Seminarul este conceput interactiv şi se concentrează pe şase autori şi textele lor selectate
în aşa manieră încât să ofere un tablou reprezentativ al strategiilor teatrale în literature
britanică a sec. XX. Seminarul oferă noţiuni de teorie a teatrului, fiind totodată bazat pe
un riguros close reading al pieselor, netrecând însîă cu vederea dimensiunea lor
performativă. Seminarul abordează fiecare piesă ca şi un eveniment contextualizat de
comunicare între autor şi public, concentrându-se pe maniera în care aceste piese
reinventează şi reinterpretează istoria genului dramatic.
CCII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
G. B. Shaw, Arms and the Man
G. B. Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Harold Pinter, The Caretaker
Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter
CCIII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: hand-
out, imagini, prezentări Power-Point de către titularul de curs, filme bazate pe
piesele studiate.
CCIV. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2: the modern shift: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Key words: comedy of manners revisited, aestheticism, linguistic awareness, Irishness,
post-Victorianism.
Week 3: melodrama and the modern theatre: G. B. Shaw, Arms and the Man, Caesar and
Cleopatra
Key words: plot and character, the historical character.
MID-TERM QUIZ.
Week 4: the shift from character to plot: the angry fifties: John Osborne, Look Back in
Anger”
Key words: theatre of anger, anti-modernism, realism, social concerns, working class
drama, dissolution of tradition.
Week 5: action and performance: identity and alterity, Harold Pinter, The Caretaker
Key words: absurdism/existentialism vs. postmodernist theatre, deconstruction of
language.
Week 6: action and performance: H. Pinter, The Dumb Waiter

Key words: deconstruction of plot and character, otherness, silence vs language,
representing through the body/gestures.
Week 7: term paper

Verificare pe parcurs: nota finală se va compune din punctele obţinute pe cele două teste
(de la jumătatea şi sfârşitul semestrului, 30% şi, respectiv, 40%). Bonusuri (max. 30%)
pot fi obţinute pe activitate de seminar, intervenţii, prezentări.
X. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
Prezenţă: studenţilor li se cere prezenţa la 60 % din seminarii – lipsa de prezenţă va duce
automat la pierderea examenului. Plagiatul, de asemenea, adduce după sine pierderea
examenului.
CCV. Bibliografia opţională:

Martin Esslin, An Anatomy of Drama(1978), London: Harmondsworth, Penguin;
Adrian Marino, Dictioar de concepte literare(1984), Bucuresti
Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw(1988), New York: Random House
John Russel Taylor, Anger and After (1969), London: Methuen , pp. 13-15; 197-199; 285-
316; 324-325
Raymond Williams, “Recent English Drama” in Boris Ford, The Modern Age (1984),
London: Penguin

Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de eseuri

Codul: LE 22261
CCVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific:

Ore de audienţă:
CCVII. Descrierea disciplinei:

Având în vedere faptul că acest curs practic este ultimul centrat pe competenţele de
scriere ale studenţilor, el va urmări dezvoltarea capacităţii de a schiţa şi a elabora
compuneri lungi de tipul lucrării de diplomă. Cursul practic va constitui un prilej pentru
ca studenţii să cunoască dificultăţile, stadiile, strategiile, normele şi convenţiile cercetării
şi ale comunicării rezultatelor obţinute în comunitatea academică. Scopul este de a crea
capacitatea de a produce la modul profesionist un discurs ştiinţific aflat în concordanţă cu
convenţiile de cercetare actuale.
Obiective:
acestora
Competenţe:
textuale)
Metode:
CCVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

 Cantor, Jeffrey, A Guide to Academic Writing, Praeger, Westport, 1993.
Crows Nest, N.S.W., 2000
 Peck MacDonald, Susan, Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and
Social Sciences, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL.,1994.
CCIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: fişe de

CCX. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
Topic: selecting the topic for the dissertation
Key words: critical background, personal affinity, information dissemination.
Students’ tasks: class debates.
Week 3:
Topic: documentation and research I
Key words: selection of relevant sources, use of sources (libraries, electronic data bases,
journals, peer-reviewed publications).
Students’ tasks: reading, note taking, summarising.
Week 4:
Topic: documentation and research II: use of the internet
Key words: scholarly vs informal sources, reliable vs unreliable information,
discrimination and selection, critical thinking.
Students’ tasks: reading, note taking, summarising, debating.
Week 5:
Topic: drafting a scholarly paper
Key words: argumentation, key words, logical sequence, coherence, chapter division
other’s drafts.
Week 6:
Key words: feedback and revision of proposed drafts.
Week 7:
Topic: paper structure
Key words: introduction, exposition of theoretical framework, application of critical
tools, case study, conclusions.
other’s drafts.
Week 8:
Topic: usage of theoretical framework
structure, consistency, coherence, critical thought.
Week 9:
Topic: elaborating an academic essay I
Key words: register, style, academic conventions, content.
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
Topic: elaborating an academic essay II
Key words: argument structure, tense consistency, scholarly conventions.
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
Topic: how not to plagiarise
Key words: plagiarism, information usage, quoting, citation, paraphrasing.
Students’ tasks: debate and text-production.
Week 12:
Topic: writing a scholarly article
Key words: scholarly institutions, journals, publications.
other’s drafts.
Week 13:
endnotes/footnotes; MLA stylesheet.
other’s drafts.
CCXI. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

CCXII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

atare.
Semestrul 2

Codul: LE22261
CCXIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

CCXIV. Descrierea disciplinei:

Obiective:
discurs
adaptate la acestea
studenţilor
Competenţe:
Metode:
CCXV. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1998
.
CCXVI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CCXVII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Week 2:
Topic: selecting the topic for the dissertation
Key words: critical background, personal affinity, information dissemination.
Students’ tasks: class debates.
Week 3:
Topic: documentation and research I
Key words: selection of relevant sources, use of sources (libraries, electronic data bases,
journals, peer-reviewed publications).
Students’ tasks: reading, note taking, summarising.
Week 4:
Topic: documentation and research II: use of the internet
Key words: scholarly vs informal sources, reliable vs unreliable information,
discrimination and selection, critical thinking.
Students’ tasks: reading, note taking, summarising, debating.
Week 5:
Key words: argumentation, key words, logical sequence, coherence, chapter division
other’s drafts.
Week 6:
Key words: feedback and revision of proposed drafts.
Week 7:
Topic: paper structure
Key words: introduction, exposition of theoretical framework, application of critical
tools, case study, conclusions.
other’s drafts.
Week 8:
Topic: usage of theoretical framework
structure, consistency, coherence, critical thought.
Week 9:
Topic: elaborating an academic essay I
Key words: register, style, academic conventions, content.
other’s drafts.
Week 10:
Topic: elaborating an academic essay II
Key words: argument structure, tense consistency, scholarly conventions.
other’s drafts.
Week 11:
Topic: how not to plagiarise
Key words: plagiarism, information usage, quoting, citation, paraphrasing.
Students’ tasks: debate and text-production.
Week 12:
Topic: writing a scholarly article
Key words: scholarly institutions, journals, publications.
other’s drafts.
Week 13:
endnotes/footnotes; MLA stylesheet.
other’s drafts.
CCXVIII. Modul de evaluare:

CCXIX. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:


Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de interpretări de texte

Codul: LE 22261
CCXX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CCXXI. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest curs practic este menit să familiarizeze studenţii cu practica şi vocabularul
interpretării literare, mai precis cu strategiile de lectură şi contextualizare a textului
literar. Se utilizează opere canonice ale modernismului în scopul de a identifica şi a
analiza structurile narative şi convenţiile ficţionale specifice diverselor forme de nuvelă şi
roman. Un alt scop este de a furniza o imagine a principalelor curente critice ale ultimelor
decenii, ca şi capacitatea de a implementa terminologia oferită de acestea în studiul
textului.
Obiective:
 familiarizarea cu practica şi limbajul interpretării literare: lectura şi
contextualizarea textului literar
 studiul convenţiilor genului scurt din prima jumătate a secolului XX: de la realism
la modernismul târziu
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a interpreta un text literar
 cunoaşterea şi utilizarea terminologiei critice
 contextualizarea genului scurt în cadrul istoric
Metode:
 close reading
CCXXII. Bibliografia obligatorie (toate textele vor fi disponibile într-un dosar

Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel”

John Fowles, “The Enigma”
Salman Rushdie, “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”
Salman Rushdie, “The Harmony of the Spheres”
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Flann O’Brien, excerpt from At Swim-Two-Birds
Julian Barnes, excerpt from A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
A. S. Byatt, “Baglady”
CCXXIII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CCXXIV. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

Week 2:
Topic: formalism, structures, narratology: Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel”.
Key words: form, structure, anti-structure, coherence, narrator, narratee, stream of
consciousness.
Week 3:
Topic: text/oriented approaches: postmodern subversions: John Fowles, “The Enigma”.
Key words: post-structuralism, death of the author, „literature of exhaustion”, „literature
of replenishment”, intertextuality, laying bare the illusion.
Week 4:
Topic: postmodern revisions: Salman Rushdie, “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”.
Key words: intertextuality, re-writing, reproduction, consumerism, popular culture.
Week 5:
Topic: context-oriented approaches/postcolonial revisions: Salman Rushdie, “The
Harmony of the Spheres”.
Key words: revisionism, rewriting, irony, parody, de-centring, hybridity, new identities.
Week 6:
Topic: reader-oriented approaches: A. S. Byatt, “Baglady”.
Key words: distance, appropriation, interpretive norms, gaps, blanks, horison of
expectation, reader-response, aesthetic reception.
Week 7:
Topic: the advent of postmodernism: Flann O’Brien, excerpt from At Swim-Two-Birds
Key words: parody, pastiche, language games, irony, tradition and renewal, linguistic
turn
MIDTERM PAPER SUBMISSION!!
Week 8:
Topic: deconstructing theory, deconstructing texts: Flann O’Brien, excerpt from At Swim-
Two-Birds
Key words: writing and the anti-logocentric movement.
Week 9:
Topic: historicism and the multiplication of histories: Julian Barnes, excerpt from A
History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Key words: (His)tory, (alternative) histories, displacement, re-emplacement, revisiting
the past.
Week 10:
Topic: historicism and the multiplication of histories Julian Barnes, excerpt from A
History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Key words: parody, historiographic metafiction.
Week 11:
Topic: postmodern story-telling: Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Key words: intertextuality, censorship, otherness, difference.
Week 12:
Topic: revisions and reviewings: theory in practice: Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea
of Stories
Key words: intepretive vocabulary/critical tools
Week 13: final quiz.
Week 14: conclusions and feedback.
CCXXV. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.
CCXXVI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

atare.
CCXXVII. Bibliografia opţională:

Bradbury, Malcolm , ed.: The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, Penguin,
London, 1987
Fallon, Erin, R. C. Feddersen, A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English,
Greenwood Press, Westport, 2001.
Hanson, Clare, ed., Re-reading the Short Story, MacMillan Press, London, 1989
David Herman ed., The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, 2007.
Lounsberry, Barbara, Susan Lohafer, eds., The Tales We Tell. Perspectives on the Short
Story, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, London, 1988.

Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic Interpretări texte

Codul: LE 22261
CCXXVIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CCXXIX. Descrierea disciplinei:

Acest curs practic are ca scop introducerea şi punerea în practică a unor noţiuni de bază
de interpretare literară. Se bazează pe o abordare hermeneutică şi de teoria receptării şi
propune pentru lectură un grup de nuvele şi romane scurte văzute ca reprezentative
pentru literatura britanică modernă şi contemporană. Autorii selectaţi sunt figuri canonice
ale primei şi celei de-a doua jumătăţi a sec. XX, oferind posibilitatea unei introduceri în
tematicile, strategiile narative şi convenţiile scriiturii moderne şi postmoderne, cât şi în
convenţiile genului romanesc. Studenţilor li se cere o participare activă în procesul de
lectură, în discuţiile şi dezbaterile pe text, avându-se ca scop dezvoltarea capacităţii de
interpretare textuală bazată pe close reading, şi a gîndirii şi interpolării critice.
Obiective:
 Familiarizarea studenţilor cu practica şi limbajul interpretării literare: lectura
(close reading) şi contextualizarea unui text de ficţiune
 Discutarea convenţiilor nuvelei şi romaneşti pe parcursul secolului XX: de la
realism la modernismul experimental şi la postmodernism
 Introducerea şi aplicarea termenilor-cheie a diferitelor şcoli de teorie
(poststructuraliste; teoria receptării, deconstructivism, feminism, postcolonialism
şamd.)
Competenţe:
 Dobândirea capacităţii de a interpreta un text de ficţiune
 Cunoaşterea şi manipularea abilă a limbajelor şi termenilor critice
 Înţelegerea convenţiilor literare specifice prozei scurte şi genului romanesc
 Elaborarea unor discursuri argumentative critice coerente pe baza textelor studiate

Metode:
 discuţii interactive pe baza textului
 close reading
 explicarea şi discutarea sistemelor de gândire critică-teoretică introdusă pe lista
bibliografică optţională
 prezentări individuale şi în grup pe teme indicate de titularul de curs
CCXXX. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Virginia Woolf – “An Unwritten Novel”
Jeanette Winterson – “Disappearance II”, in The World and Other Places
Angela Carter – “Peter and the Woolf”
Julian Barnes – “Junction”/”Gnossienne”, from Cross Channel
Anita Desai – Fasting, Feasting
A.S. Byatt – “Baglady”
CCXXXI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

hand-out, imagini, prezentări Power-Point de către titularul de curs.
CCXXXII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

Week 2:
Topic: modernist self-referential writing. Virginia Woolf, ‘An Unwritten Novel’
Key words: self-referential structures, ‘reality’ vs. fiction
Week 3:
Topic: opening up to postmodernist selfreferential structures. Flann O’Brien, At Swim-
Two-Birds (fragm.) - I
Key words: metafiction, parody, pastiche, crossing the levels of fictionality, ‘strange
loops’
Week 4:
Topic: opening up to postmodernist selfreferential structures. Flann O’Brien, At Swim-
Two-Birds (fragm.) - I
Key words: metafiction, parody, pastiche, rewriting and parodying tradition (traditional
realism, modernist narrative strategies)
Week 5:
Topic: modernist narrative strategies Virginia Woolf, ‘An Unwritten Novel”
Key words: modernism, impressionism; perspectivism, interior time vs. linear time;
representing (fluid) consciousness.
Week 6:
Topic: modernist narrative strategies revisited: Jeanette Winterson, ‘Disappearance II’
Key words: convention, defamiliarisation, syntagmatic, paradigmatic, readerly, writerly;
fluid world, fluid self, fluid time; revisiting the gothic as genre.
Week 7:
Topic: postmodernist attitude to tradition. Julian Barnes, ‘Gnossienne’
Key words: fragmentation, indeterminacy; undermining the authority of literary tradition
and its institutions, play with the implied author/implied reader
Week 8:
Topic: History vs. (his)tories. Julian Barnes, ‘Junction’
Key words: grand narrative vs. petit histoire; history, memory, fiction, ideology
Week 9:
Topic: Hybrid genres. Angela Carter, ‘Peter and the Woolf’
Key words: Gothic revisited; the fairy tale revisited; rewriting gender roles
Week 10:
Topic: Identity problematized. Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting (I)
Key words: traditional community vs. postmodern experience. Fractured identities,
colonial mimicry, the fracturing of patterns (national/ethnic, linguistic, gender roles). The
body as marker of identity
Week 11
Topic: Identity problematized. Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting (II)
Key words: hybrid identities, migrants, non-fixed identification patterns.
Week 12
Topic: In-between identities. Salman Rushdie, ‘East, West’
Key words: migrants, cultural interface, translation.
Week 13
Topic: Irishness, national identity, national history revisited. Patrick McCabe, Breakfast
on Pluto/ Mondo desperado (fragm.)
Key words: challenge of central narratives (family, tradition, history, nationalism). ‘Core’
vs. marginal identities
Students’ tasks: 1) reading the text, contributing to class debates
2) final paper submission.
Week 14: conclusions and feed-back.
CCXXXIII. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs – nota finală se compune din:

- nota obţinută pe testul de la jumătatea semestrului (20%)
- Un eseu final, predate la sfârşitul semestrului (60%)
- Participare activă, intervenţii (20%)
Cerinţe pentru eseul final: eseul final va fi o analiză a unui text studiat sintr-una din
perspectivele critice introduce. Contribuţia personală este încurajată, dar folosirea de
surse critice este recomandată.
CCXXXIV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Prezenţă: prezenţa minimă la cursuri este de 60 %. Plagiatul va duce automat la pierderea
examenului.
CCXXXV. Bibliografia opţională:

 Bradbury, Malcolm, McFarlane, James, eds.: Modernism: A Guide to European
 Reid, Jan: The Short Story, Routledge, London & New York, 199 4
 Rivkin, Julie, Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology, Blackwell, Oxford,
2004.

Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Gramatică generativă.

Codul: LE31221
Locul de desfăşurare: conform orarului întocmit la Facultatea de Litere
1. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau de

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: TODEA ADRIANA Lector doctorand

Informaţii de contact: atodea@yahoo.com
1. Descrierea disciplinei :
We can only understand the subtleties of syntactic structures if we understand the
architectonic principles and blueprints of natural language, the rules that govern the ways
in which words combine to build phrases, and phrases are combined into larger phrases or
sentences. It is also necessary to understand that syntax is multi-layered, that phrases,
after being built, can be moved or deleted in order to satisfy the correlation with the
Semantic or Phonetic modules of the language faculty. Movements and deletions take
place under certain restrictions, and speakers, without being specifically taught these
conditions, have an unconscious knowledge of them. All natural languages share the
same fundamental structural properties of one universal language faculty, property of the
human brain. But these principles are broad enough to allow considerable differences
among specific languages, which enables both language variation and foreign language
acquisition.
Nu putem întelege pe deplin subtilităţile structurilor sintactice decît înţelegînd principiile

arhitectonice ale limbilor naturale, regulile combinatorice care guvernează generarea
grupurilor nominale, verbale, prepoziţionale etc, formarea propoziţiilor şi a frazelor. Este
de asemeanea necesar să înţelegem că sintaxa este multistratală, că unităţi sintactice
simple sau complexe pot fi deplasate sau şterse pentru a satisface corelaţiile sintaxei cu
modulul semantic sau fonologic al limbii. Deplasările sau ştergerile sînt strict
condiţionate, iar vorbitorii, fără vreo instruire specifică în acest sens, au un simţ înnăscut
în a percepe (inconştient) şi a aplica a aceste reguli. În toate limbile naturale vom găsi
aceleaşi proprietăţi structurale, caracteristice facultăţii lingvistice a creierului uman.
Aceste principii comune sînt însă suficient de generoase pentru a permite o considerabilă
variaţie sintactică între limbi, ceea ce explică atît varietatea linvistică umană, cît şi
posibilitatea de a învăţa limbi străine.
2. Bibliografie obligatorie
Steven Pinker (1995) The Language Instinct, Penguin;
Blake, Barry J. (1990) Relational Grammar, Routledge;
Vivian Cook & Mark Newson (1996) Chomsky’s Universal Grammar, second edition,
Blackwell;
Haegeman, Liliane (1991) Introduction to Government and Binding Theory, Basil
Blackwell;
Carol G. Rosen (1996-1997) “Interfaţa dintre rolurile semantice şi relaţiile gramaticale
iniţiale” în Dacoromania, II pe 1996-1997, nr. 1-2, Editura academiei române.pp.207-251
(capitolele selectate se găsesc la Biblioteca de Engleză în dosarul de Gramatică
Generativă )
3. Descrierea cursului
Obiectives:
 To present and discuss evidence that supports the idea that language is a
human biological endowment;
 To explain how phrases and sentences are constructed;
 To explain the notions language faculty and Universal Grammar;
 To give a generative description of the English syntax;
 To explain the differences in sentence structure among languages from around
the world in terms of universal principles and parameters.
Content:
1. Language as an Instinct
2. Unaccusativity and unergativity. Multistratal syntax. The Final 1 Law.
3. Chomsky’s theory of language
4. Argument structure and theta-roles. Syntactic valence. Mappings between syntax
and semantics: The Universal Alignment Hypothesis; the Little Alignment
Hypothesis
5. The structure of phrases. The X-bar theory
6. D-structure. S-structure. Movement: Interrogatives in English. Subject movement.
Wh-movement. Head-to-head movement. V-movement.
7. Structural relations: Dominance, precedence, c-command, m-command,
government.
8. Case theory
9. Binding theory
Competenţe:
 o viziune universalistă de ansamblu asupra proceselor interne de achiziţie
şi generare a limbii;
 deprinderi de utilizare a modelului generativist de analiză sintactică:
identificarea structurii argumentative, generarea de arbori binari,
replicarea unităţilor lexicale în poziţii funcţionale (aşa numita deplasare),
operarea cu relaţii structurale şi de guvernare, însuşirea teoriilor noi
despre caz şi asignarea valorilor referenţiale pronumelor.
Metode de predare:
 predare la cursuri cu ajutorul proiecţiilor PowerPoint, în special cele de
generare animată a arborilor binari;
 exerciţii practice la seminar.
 Schemele de curs (course outlines) care conţin tot ceea ce se proiectează
în timpul cursului, inclusiv diagramele sintactice, sînt disponibile pentru
fotocopiere, cît şi în format electronic, la Biblioteca de Engleză la
începutul semestrului, ceea ce face mai uşoară, deşi nu nenecesară, luarea
de notiţe la curs. Schemele de curs nu pot constitui în sine un material
suficient pentru pregătirea examenului. În cazul în care studentul a lipsit
de la curs, se recomandă folosirea schemei de curs ca ghid pentru
parcurgerea bibliografiei indicate.
4. Planificarea/Calendarul întâlnirilor (Weekly Schedule)
Week 1
Presentation of the course’s description, objectives, schedule, requirements,
bibligraphy, and assessment.
Course 1:
Topic: Language as an Instinct
Obiectives:
 Talk about facts that confirm that language is a genetically endowed human
skill.
 Identify the specific linguistic elements that speakers use to convey meaning
in conversation and how they can vary from one culture to another
 Presentation of observational experiments on first language acquisition that
prove that language acquisition is creative, not immitative.
 Discussion on the human language skill in a evolutionary context: the
communicative continuum across species.
Key words:
 Pidgin and creole languages
 creolization
 Broca’s aphasia
 Specific Language Impairment
 Williams syndrome
 The language gene: FOXP2
 First language acquisition: creative, not immitative
 The communicative continuum
Bibliography:
Steven Pinker (1995) The Language Instinct, Penguin
Recommended chapters:
An Instinct to Acquire an Art
Chatterboxes
Mentalese
Baby Born Talking-- Describes Heaven
Week 2
Course 2:
Topic: Unaccusativity and unergativity. Multistratal syntax. The Final 1 Law.
Obiectives:
 Subcategorization of intransitive verbs based on evidence from English,
Italian , French and Romanian on perfect auxiliary selection.
 Support the assumtion that syntax is multistratal.
Key words:
 Perfect auxiliary selection
 unaccusativity
 unergativity
 Final 1Law
Bibliography:
Blake, Barry J. (1990) Relational Grammar, Routledge
Recommended pages: pp.1-3, pp. 29-37
Week 3
Course 3:
Topic: Chomsky’s theory of language
Obiectives:
 Presentation of the advent and theoretical development of Generative
Grammar as a theory of language.
 Defining the goals of Generative Grammar.
 Presentation of different theoretical approaches to linguistics and their
limitations.
 Presentation of some universal principles of language.
Key words:
 Plato’s problem
 creativity
 behaviourism
 Universal Grammar
 knowledge of language
 principles and parameters
 I-language and E-language
 The embedding principle
 The structure-dependency principle
Bibliography:
Blackwell, pp 1-39
Week 4
Course 4:
Topic: Syntactic valence. Argument structure and theta-roles. Mappings between syntax
and semantics: The Universal Alignment Hypothesis; the Little Alignment Hypothesis
Obiectives:
 Raising awareness that syntax is projected by the internal syntactic valence of
lexical entries
 Intoducing verbal, nominal, adjectival, prepositional syntactic predicates
 Presentation of the limitted number of syntactic patterns available in human
languages.
 Introducing thematic structures and their correlation with syntactic structures.
Key words:
 Syntactic valence
 The Projection Principle
 Argument structure
 Theta-roles and theta criterion
 Universal Alignment Hypothesis
 Little Alignment Hypothesis
Bibliography:
Carol G. Rosen (1996-1997) “Interfaţa dintre rolurile semantice şi relaţiile gramaticale
iniţiale” în Dacoromania, II pe 1996-1997, nr. 1-2, Editura academiei române.pp.207-251
Week 5
Seminar 1:
Topic: Argument structure and theta –roles (exercises)
Week 6
Course 5:
Topic: The structure of phrases. The X-bar principle as a parameterized principle of
Universal Grammar
Obiectives:
 Intoducing binary trees in the representation of phrases and clauses with
predicates as heads of phrases.
 Give a theoretically unified description of syntactic structures across
languages.
Key words:
 Multilayered syntax: multilayered structure
 The X-bar model
 zero, intermediate and maximal projections
 specifier position vs. complement position
 SOV vs. SVO
 The Head parameter
 the Inflection phrase
 the Complementizer phrase
Bibliography:
Blackwell, pp 131-158
Week 7
Seminar 2:
Topic: X-bar theory (exercises)
Week 8
Course 6:
Topic: D-structure. S-structure. Movement
Obiectives:
 Presentation of syntax as a combinatorical system based on recursion that
bridges sounds and meanings
 Presentation of movement as lexical reduplication under functional nodes to
account for syntactic transformations.
 Presentation of types of movement
 Focus on interrogative devices in English explained in terms of movement.
Key words:
 Logical Form
 Phonological Form
 Deep structure
 Surface structure
 Movement constraints
 NP-movement, Subject movement
 Verb-movement
 Head-to-head movement
 Wh-movement
Bibliography:
Week 9
Seminar 3:
Topic: Movement (exercises)
Week 10
Course 7:
Topic: Structural relations: Dominance, precedence, c-command, m-command, and
government
Obiectives:
 Presentation of logical operations in a binary tree and their linguistic relevance
 Presentation of government as a linguistic relation based on inherently
structural binary tree relations.
 Presentation of government as a “power” relation among constituents in a
phrase: focus on case- and theta-marking as generated under government.
Key words:
 Government: governor, governee
 The social metaphor: mother and daughter, grandmother and
granddaughter, aunt and niece.
 Dominance
 Precedence
 c-command and m-command
 barrier to government
 weak governor
Bibliography:
Haegeman, Liliane (1991) Introduction to Government and Binding Theory, Basil
Blackwell, pp.73-77; 113-126
Week 11
Course 8:
Topic: Case theory
Obiectives:
 Subcategorization of case: abstract vs. overt, structural vs. inherent
 Presentation of Case Filter as a principle of Universal Grammar
Key words:
 Case Filter
 abstract case
 inherent case
 structural positions
 Exceptional Case Marking
Bibliography:
Week 12
Seminar 4:
Topic: Structural relations & case assignment (exercises)
Week 13
Course 9:
Topic: Binding theory
Obiectives:
 Subcategorization of pronouns based on their antecedent selection:
pronominals vs. anaphors
 Presentation of antecedent selection as syntactically governed.
 Exercises
Key words:
 binder and bindee
 antecedent
 co-reference and co-indexation
 pronominals
 anaphores
 referring expressions
 governing category
 Principles A, B, C of Binding theory
Bibliography:
Blackwell, pp 61-70 (you can find it in the Generative Grammar dossier at the library)
Week 14
Seminar 5:
Topic: Review and tutoring
5. Modul de evaluare
Examen în perioada sesiunii constînd dintr-un subiect teoretic de 3 puncte şi două
subiecte practice de cîte 3 puncte fiecare.
6. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale

Utilizarea fraudei în cazul examenului va determina automat sistarea procesului de
examinare şi evaluarea cu nota 1 (unu).
Schemele de curs (course outlines) care conţin tot ceea ce se proiectează în timpul
cursului, inclusiv diagramele sintactice, sînt disponibile pentru fotocopiere, cît şi în
format electronic, la Biblioteca de Engleză la începutul semestrului, ceea ce face mai
uşoară, deşi nu nenecesară, luarea de notiţe la curs. Schemele de curs nu pot constitui în
sine un material suficient pentru pregătirea examenului. În cazul în care studentul a lipsit
de la curs, se recomandă folosirea schemei de curs ca ghid pentru parcurgerea
bibliografiei indicate.
Decan, Şef de catedra, Titular curs,

Prof dr Corin BRAGA Prof dr Mihai ZDRENGHEA Lect drd Adriana
TODEA
Universitatea”Babes-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca
Semestrul 5
I. Informaţii generale despre curs:
Titlul disciplinei: English Literature in the 20th century

Codul: LE31261
Numarul de credite: 4
Locul de desfășurare: conform orarului intocmit la Facultatea de Litere
II. Informaţii despre titularul de curs:

Nume, titlu stiinţific: BERCE SANDA, Conferenţiar doctor
Informatii de contact: sandaberce@yahoo.com
Ore de audientă: 2
III. Descrierea disciplinei: The course is a developing picture of the most important
stages in the modern and contemporary history of the English literature and of their
manifest forms, devoted to the discussion of fiction, drama and poetry, beginning with
the first decade of the 20th century and ending with the first decade of the 21st century.
(1) It seeks to familiarize the students with the changes that occurred in the ways of
literary expression, in the theme and the style characteristic for the shift from
modernism to postmodernism;
(2) It is an analysis of the cultural-historical support of the change of paradigm in
literature and it aims at making the students able to understand, analyze and interpret
the texts of literature chosen as significant sample of these changes;
(3) It seeks to develop the students’ ability to identify and define the changes that
occurred in the ways of literary expression.
The course is organized around four lecture units, 2(two) contact hours per week and 14
weeks.

- Harold Bloom (1994) The Western Canon, Macmillan, Papermac, London;
- Matei Calinescu (1987) Five Faces of Modernity, Duke University Press;
- Michael Levanson (1999) Modernism (A Cambridge Companion to), Cambridge
University Press;
- Malcolm Bradbury (1993) The Modern British Novel (Ch. I, VII), Routledge,
London;
- Brian McHale (1987) Postmodernist Fiction, Routledge, London;
- Terry Eagleton* (2005) The English Novel: An Introduction (fragm.), Oxford
University Press, Oxford, pp.1-22; 214-281;
- Randall Stevenson* (2004) The Last of England , vol. 12 in “The Oxford Literary
History”(fragm.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, Part IV: pp 397-502;
- Sanda Berce (2001) Forms of Attention, Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca;
- Sanda Berce (2002) Modernity in English Contemporary Fiction, Editura Dacia,
Cluj-Napoca.
* These books are provided by the tutor. Most of the titles specified above may be
found in the Reading Packets prepared by the tutor for the students and are available
in the English Library, the Faculty of Letters (I. Modernity and
Postmodernism:Theory; II. Postmodernism and Literature; III. Modernity and
Modernism: Literature and Theory).
V. Materiale folosite in cadrul procesului educational:

- Lecture hand-out (provided by the tutor); photocopies of fragment of texts, chapters
of books which are unavailable in the Faculty Library.
VI. Planificarea/ Calendarul intilnirilor si a verificarilor/examinarilor

intermediare:
Unit I: English Literature in the first half of the 20th century.
1. Modernity and tradition: Canon. Displacing tradition in literature. Modern-
Modernisty-
Modernism.
1. Art and the novel: the novel development; the language turn-from the logocentric
to the ocular-centric vision.
2. Modernism and/vs.Postmodernism. Postmodernism and the Visual arts
(architecture). The “New canon” rules..
Key words: canon, anti-canon, aesthetic canon, late modernism, high modernism,
logocentric. ocularcentric, sensibility, mentality, psychological realism, metafiction.
Bibliography: Matei Calinescu (1987) Five Faces of Modernity; H.Bloom (1994) The
Western Canon; Michael Levanson (1999) Modernism; S.Berce (2001) Forms of
Attention.
Unit 2: Modernism and Tradition
3. ‘Background’ and ‘Context’ (H.James, “Daisy Miller”; J.Conrad, “Lord Jim”)
Bibliography: H.James, Preface to “The Portrait of the Lady”; J.Conrad, Preface to
“The Nigger of the Narcissus”.
4. “The Men of 1914”: Modernist English Poetry (T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats). Eliot as
critic: defining literary tradition.
5. Time philosophy: ‘new’ timing- new chronologies, changes in sensibility and
perception (D.H.Lawrence, “The Rainbow”(“Sons and Lovers”), A.Huxley, “Brave
New World”.
6. The “Edwardian” novelists (H.G.Wells; ‘the scientific’ romance; J.Galsworthy:
“the new sagas”).
Bibliography: D.H.Lawrence, “Love” (1917), “Give Her a Pattern”(1928); A.Huxley,
“Music a Night”
Key words: point-of-view, perspective, focalization, Self, modernization, scientific
romance, saga, cosmopolitanism, urbanization.
Bibliography: Michael Levanson (1999) Modernism, M.Bradbury (1993) The
Modern English Novel.
Unit 3: Experiment versus Tradition.
7. Negotiation with ‘form’- framing reality (V.Woolf, J.Joyce). Impressionism,
Expressionism. Realism and ‘the mental space’. The Bloomsbury group. Experiment
with new modes of representation: stream of consciousness (V.Woolf, “To the
Lighthouse”).
8. The beginnings of Postmodernism with Joyce and Flann O’Brian (“A Portrait of
the Artist as A Young Man”; “At-Swim-Two-Birds”).
9. The Value of Modernism.
10. English drama: a developing picture (G.B.Shaw-‘the problem play’; T.S.Eliot-‘the
poetic drama’; R.Bolt-‘documentary realism’).
11. “The Angry Decade”: theatre and the novel (J.Osborne, A.Sillitoe)
Bibliography: V.Woolf, Modern Fiction; T.S.Eliot, Tradition and the Individual
Talent.
Key words: impersonality, stream-of-consciousness, free indirect discourse,
idiosyncratic, intertextuality, documentary realism, angry decade, meta-history,
authorship.
Unit 4: Postmodernsim and contemporary literature.

12. Nostalgia for the past: the new ‘historical novel’(Graham Swift, “Waterland”).
13. Authorship-Writership: literature as fun, criticism as irony, postmodern sensibility
(Julian Barnes, “Flaubert’s Parrot”; Ian McEwan, “Amsterdam”).
14. “The Empire within”: storytelling and multicultural personae (S.Rushdie,
“Haroun and the Sea of Stories”)
Bibliography: Brian McHale(1987) Postmodernist Fiction; S.Berce(2002) Modernity
in English Contemporary Fiction.
Key words: metafiction, historiographic metafiction, heterotopia, docudrama, fictional
biography, alternative narrative, psychobiography.
VII. Modul de evaluare: Exam +Term paper 25% of the exam score.
Final assessment: Exam + Special seminar [British Fiction] (25% of the final score).
Attendance: 80% compulsory.
It is considered fraud (a) the use of unquoted information in the Term paper (full text
or fragment) and (b) the use of sources of information such as lecture notes, printed
pages, books, cell phones, in the exam. The score is 1.00.
Prof.dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf.dr. Sanda Berce

Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Seminar special de roman britanic

Codul: LE 31261
CCXXXVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CCXXXVII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Seminarul urmăreşte facilitarea înţelegerii şi dobândirii de competenţe interpretative

necesare studiului unor texte experimentale aparţinând modernismului şi
postmodernismului. Deşi propune o viziune diacronică şi contextualizatoare, seminarul se
axează în principal pe analiza de text pentru a explora evoluţia temelor cheie şi a
strategiilor narative (cum ar fi perspectiva şi mijloacele pe care aceasta le oferă
construcţiei de identităţi subiective). Un alt scop este familiarizarea studenţilor cu
metodologiile şi cadrele teoretice ale diverselor abordări critice aplicabile romanului
modern. Studenţii vor participa activ la dezbateri, vor produce scurte prezentări ale
textelor sau materialelor adiţionale indicate de titularul de curs.
Obiective:
 familiarizarea cu practica şi limbajul interpretării literare
 înţelegerea principalelor teme şi strategii utilizate în romanul modernist şi
postmodernist
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a interpreta şi a contextualiza un roman de genul celor studiate
 cunoaşterea şi utilizarea terminologiei critice adecvate
Metode:
 close reading
CCXXXVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness/ Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Salman Rushdie, Fury
CCXXXIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

CCXL. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

Week 2:
Topic: early modernist writing: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness/ Henry James, The
Turn of the Screw
Key words: subjectivism, perspective, psychological realism, fragmentation, multiplicity.
Students’ tasks: reading the text, individual presentations, contributing to class debates.
Week 2:
Topic: high modernist writing: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Key words: impressionism, perspectivism, interior monologue, free indirect speech,
linear vs interior time, gender, sensation vs the logocentric tradition; fragmented
identities and the boundaries of otherness.
Week 3:
Topic: postmodern metafiction: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Key words: historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, rewriting, tradition, subversion,
pastiche, death of the author, double coding.
MID-TERM QUIZ.
Week 4:
Topic: the challenge of (his)tory: Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Key words: historiographic metafiction, grand narrative, petit histoire, (self-)reflexivity,
parody, dialogism and the crisis of dimension.
Week 5:
Topic: the “new centre”: Salman Rushdie, Fury
Key words: migrants: reinventing identity, liminal spaces, virtual identities, virtual
histories and simulacra, reinventing narrative.
Week 6:
Key words: story, story-telling, hybridity of genres/language, recycling, self-reflexivity,
fluidity of discourse.
Week 7: final quiz.
CCXLI. Modul de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs.

CCXLII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
atare.
CCXLIII. Bibliografia opţională:

 Bradbury, Malcolm, McFarlane, James, eds., Modernism: A Guide to European
 Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism, Routledge, London, 1998.
 McHale, Brian, Postmodernist Fiction, Methuen, New York, 1987.

Semestrul 1
Titlul disciplinei: Seminar special Romanul britanic

Codul: LE 31261
CCXLIV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
CCXLV. Descrierea disciplinei:
Acest seminar este destinat să faciliteze abilitatea de interpretare a studenţilor în vederea

lecturii unor texte experimentale de ficţiune aparţinând modernismului şi
postmodernismului. Având la bază o abordare diacronică şi contextualizată, seminariile se
concentrează pe analiza de text cu scopul de a pune în evidenţă evoluţia unor teme-cheie
şi strategii narrative (de ex. perspectivismul şi construcţia de identităţi subiective). De
asemenea, seminarul are ca scop familiarizarea studenţilor cu metodologiile şi sistemul
interpretativ ale diferitelor abordări teoretice ale romanului secolului XX. Studenţii vor fi
încurajaţi să ia parte la discuţiile şi dezbaterile pe baza textelor şi, de asemenea, să
pregătească prezentări (orale) ale textelor studiate; li se cere lectura romanelor, a textelor
critice indicate de către titularul de curs, şi a handout-urilor pregătite de acesta.
CCXLVI. Bibliografia obligatorie:

CCXLVII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
hand-out, imagini, prezentări Power-Point de către titularul de curs.
CCXLVIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

Week 2:
Turn of the Screw
Week 2:
Week 3:
MID-TERM QUIZ.
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
Week 7: final quiz.
CCXLIX. Modul de evaluare:

Verificare pe parcurs: nota finală se va compune din cuantumul de puncte realizate la cele
două teste, la jumătatea şi sfârşitul semestrului (30%, respectiv 40%). Se va da un bonus
(30%) pe participare activă, prezentări de seminar şi intervenţii în discuţii şi dezbateri.
Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
Prezenţă: studenţilor li se cere prezenţa la 60 % din seminarii – lipsa de prezenţă va duce

automat la pierderea examenului. Plagiatul, de asemenea, adduce după sine pierderea
examenului.
CCL. Bibliografia opţională:


Semestrul 1
CCLI. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator
Titlul disciplinei: Special seminar in the British Novel

Codul: LE 31261
CCLII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. drd. Mihálycsa Erika

Ore de audienţă:
CCLIII. Descrierea disciplinei:
This seminar is meant to facilitate students’ understanding and interpretive skills with
regard to fictional texts belonging to experimental modernism and postmodernism. While
embracing a diachronic and contextualising stand, it mainly focuses on textual analysis in
order to disclose the evolution of key themes and narrative strategies (such as perspective
and the means it provides to the construction of subjective identities). It also aims at
familiarising students with the methodologies and frameworks of various critical
approaches to the twentieth century novel. Students are required to take an active part in
the discussions, make short verbal presentations to the texts, and read the compulsory
texts, as well as the hand-outs provided by the tutor.
CCLIV. Bibliografia obligatorie:

CCLV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
CCLVI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:

Week 2:
Turn of the Screw
Week 2:
Week 3:
MID-TERM QUIZ.
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
Week 7: final quiz.
CCLVII. Modul de evaluare:

“continuous assessment”. The final grade will result from the cumulated points got in the
quizzes (30% and 40%, respectively). None of the tasks is compulsory, but students who
miss any of them will get lower grades. Extra-points (30%) will be awarded for full
attendance, presentations and class participation. Students who distinguish themselves in
class discussions may be exempted from taking the final quiz.
CCLVIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

CCLIX. Bibliografia opţională:


Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea As. dr. Mihalycsa Erika

Semestrul I
Anul III Semestrul I

Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: STILISTICĂ– curs opţional
Codul: LE31222
X. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Cabinetul M8
XI. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiective:
 să faciliteze înţelegerea de bază a actelor de vorbire şi să dezvolte
abilitatea studenţilor de a folosi eficient aceste tipuri de expresii
 să puncteze diferenţele dintre style, register şi literary style, şi cele dintre
ambiguity, plurisignation, indeterminacy, vagueness, obscurity and
pun
 să asigure conştientizarea diverselor registre de formalitate
 să dezvolte capacitatea studenţilor de a folosi cuvântul potrivit la locul
potrivit
Conţinut:
I. TERMINOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.
II. THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
III. THE USE OF STYLISTICS
IV. AMBIGUITY
V. LITERARY AMBIGUITY
VI. AMBIGUITY IN POETRY
VII. AMBIGUITY AND COGNATE PHENOMENA
Competenţe:
 abilitatea de a distinge între ambiguity, plurisignation, indeterminacy,
vagueness, obscurity şi pun
 capacitatea de a diferenţia semnificaţiile unor expresii din limba engleză
cu un grad mai mult sau mai puţin ridicat de ambiguitate
 abilitatea de a distinge între diferite tipuri de ambiguitate
Metode de predare:
 utilizarea unui curs interactiv cu fundament de prelegere (30%)
XII. Bibliografia obligatorie:

1. Bach, E. 1989, Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press.
2. Empson, W. 1961, Seven Types of Ambiguity. Middlesex: Penguin.
3. Leech, G. N. and Short, M. H. 1981, Style in Fiction. London: Longman.
Materialele pot fi găsite la biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere şi/sau Biblioteca Britanică.
XIII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

didactic.
XIV. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
Language, style and situation
Linguistics, stylistics, style, literary style
II. THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
Cultural assumptions, intention, grammatical markedness, speech acts
III. THE USE OF STYLISTICS
The multiple meanings of “meaning”
Natural language versus artificial languages
Predicate Calculus and disambiguation
IV. AMBIGUITY
Definition, classification, examples
Micro-ambiguity and macro-ambiguity
V. LITERARY AMBIGUITY
Empson versus Kaplan and Kris versus Rimmon
Disjunctive ambiguity, additive ambiguity, conjunctive ambiguity, integrative
ambiguity
VI. AMBIGUITY IN POETRY
Polysemous meaning
Idiosyncratic expressions
VII. AMBIGUITY AND COGNATE PHENOMENA
Plurisignation
Indeterminacy
Vagueness
Obscurity
Pun
Obligaţiile studenţilor pentru fiecare întâlnire, cu excepţia primei ore de curs: să rezolve
exerciţiile indicate de tutorele de curs şi să citească partea relevantă a bibliografiei pe
baza indicaţiilor primite la oră.
XV. Modul de evaluare:
50% din nota finală o reprezintă punctajul obţinut în urma verificării scrise. Se evaluează
este luată în considerare, constituind 10% din nota finală. Lucrarea de semestru pe care
fiecare student o va elabora va avea un punctaj care va constitui 40% din nota finală.
Pentru a beneficia de acest punctaj lucrarea trebuie predată la timp (data exactă va fi
fixată de titularul de curs şi comunicată studenţilor în timp util).
XVI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
Prezenţa la ore este obigatorie în proporţie de 80% iar participarea activă este o
componentă (10%) în nota finală. Creditare: 3.
Prezentarea la examen este condiţionată de număr minim de prezenţe: 80%. Întâlnirile

pierdute se pot recupera cu o altă grupă de studiu, dacă există o altă grupă, cu acordul
titularului de curs, şi doar dacă studentul îşi manifestă intenţia de a recupera ora via e-
mail până cel târziu în seara zilei în care s-a desfăşurat cursul pierdut.
Conform LEGII nr. 206 din 27 mai 2004 privind buna conduită în cercetarea
ştiinţifică, dezvoltarea tehnologică şi inovare PLAGIATUL „reprezintă însuşirea
ideilor, metodelor, procedurilor, tehnologiilor, rezultatelor sau textelor unei persoane,
indiferent de calea prin care acestea au fost obţinute, prezentându-le drept creaţie
personală”. Conform Wikipedia (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiat), „existenţa
contrafacerii sau a plagiatului se stabileşte, în principiu, pe baza de asemănări şi nu de
deosebiri. Simpla existenţă a unor deosebiri nu apără de învinuirea de plagiat, dacă se
dovedeşte existenţa şi importanţa asemănărilor.” Plagiatul, indiferent dacă este redus
sau extins, se pedepseşte cu nota 1.

XVII. Bibliografia opţională:

a. Austin, J. L. 1976, How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
b. Turner, G. W. 1973, Stylistics. London: Penguin.
Materialele pot fi găsite la biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere şi/sau Biblioteca Britanică.

Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Poezie engleza (Curs optional)

Codul: LE 31222
CCLX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Titularul de disciplină urmează a fi desemnat

Ore de audienţă:

Semestrul I

Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: LIMBĂ ŞI SOCIETATE – curs opţional
Codul: LE 31223

Cabinetul M8
Obiective:
 să asigure conştientizarea diverselor modalităţi de comunicare şi
specificitatea limbajului uman în raport cu comunicarea în lumea animală
 să faciliteze înţelegerea procesului de achiziţie a limbajului, pe plan
fonetic, lexical şi sintactic
 să scoată în evidenţă modul în care este organizat lexiconul mental în
ceea ce priveşte ortografia, pronunţia, morfologia, dar şi semnificaţia, şi
structurile sintactice posibile
 să puncteze relaţia dintre structura mesajelor şi procesele psihice,
specifice indivizilor care le produc şi le inerpretează într-o situaţie
comunicativă dată
Conţinut:
VIII. TERMINOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.
IX. THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
X. THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
XI. CLASSICAL UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN,
BASED ON APHASIAS
XII. LANGUAGE AND THE GRAMMAR GENE
XIII. RECEPTIVE SKILLS VERSUS PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
XIV. THE MENTAL DICTIONARY
Competenţe:
 capacitatea de a diferenţia între diferite tipuri de comunicare în lumea
animală
 abilitatea de a distinge codul verbal de alte tipuri de coduri comunicative
 capacitatea de a înţelege mecanismele psihice ale limbajului (limbajul
simbolic, noţional-verbal, categorial-speculativ)
 abilitatea de a distinge între diferite tipuri de deficienţe de limbaj
Metode de predare:

Toate materialele aflate în dosarul depus la biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere

didactic.

intermediare:
Speech, language, and communication.
Types of sign relationship: the iconic sign, the indexical sign, the symbolic sign
II. THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

The communication system of baboons, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys, dolphins, cicadas,
bees.
The cortex, vocalisation, behaviourism, conditioning, stimulus, response.
III. THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF HUMAN LANGUAGE

Design features that characterise language: displacement, arbitrariness, semanticity,
cultural transmission, interchangeability, duality of patterning, control, creativity
IV. CLASSICAL UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN,

BASED ON APHASIAS
Typical clinical symptoms of Broca's aphasics
Typical symptoms of Wernicke's aphasics
Localisation, lateralisation of speech, relateralisation, plasticity of the brain
V. LANGUAGE AND THE GRAMMAR GENE

Nativism
child-directed speech: phonology - grammar - lexis
simplifying -- clarifying – expressing
bootstrapping techniques, scaffolding
Modularity
Williams Syndrome, Specific Language Impairment, Downs Syndrome, Autism
VI. RECEPTIVE SKILLS VERSUS PRODUCTIVE SKILLS

listening and reading versus speaking and writing
written representation and phonological representation
dysgraphia and dyslexia
cohort theory, the uniqueness point
VII. THE MENTAL LEXICON
lexical entries, content words, function words, prefix stripping
word meaning, the prototype theory, lexical access
activation, spreading activation, word association
synonym, antonym, collocate, superordinate, hyponym, meronym, converses
exerciţiile indicate de tutorele de curs.


1. Lakoff, George. (1987) Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal
about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Pinker, Steven. (1994) The Language Instinct. New York: William Morrow.

Semestrul
Titlul disciplinei: Literatura americana

Codul: LE31223
CCLXI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai din Cluj Napoca
Catedra de Limba si Literatura Engleza
I. Informatii generale:
Titlul disciplinei: Traduceri Specializate

Cod: LE 31224
Numar credite: 3
Locul de desfasurare: Facultatea de Litere, Catedra de Limba si Literatura Engleza
Programarea in orar a activitatilor: conform programului stabilit
II. Informatii despre titularul cursului:
Nume, titlu stiintific: Ecaterina Popa, prof. univ. dr

Informatii de contact: email: epopa42@yahoo.com, telefon: 0264534898
Ore de audienta: 2
Cursul de Traduceri Specializate vizeaza in primul rand constientizarea diferentei dintre

traducerea literara si traducerea textelor de specialitate pe domenii. Se vor aborda
principii d emetode de traducere, aspectele relatiei dintre traducere si discurs si in
principal analiza textuala in procesul de traducere. Cursul are si o componenta practica
prin traduceri effectuate de studenti.
Obiective:
- familiarizarea studentilor cu abordarile si principiile de traducere
- constientizarea deprinderilor necesare in traducere
- sublinierea rolului analizei intratextuale si extratextuale in traducere
Competente:
- dezvoltarea deprinderii de analiza a textului la nivel lexical, grammatical si

discursive
- capacitatea de a lucra cu dictionarul de termeni de specialitate
- redarea continutului textului in limba tinta in terminologia adecvata
1. Baker, Mona (1982), In Other Words, Routledge.

2. Cozma, Mihaela (2006), Translating Legal- Administrative Discourse, Ed.
Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara.
3. Greere, Anca Luminita, (2003), Translating for Business Purposes – A Functional
Approach, Editura Dacia, Cluj Napoca.
4. Newmark, Peter (1988), A Textbook on Translation, Prentice Hall, New York,
London.
Nota: Bibliografia este accesibila la biblioteca Facultatii de Litere si Biblioteca

Centrului British Council
V. Materiale auxiliare xeroxate din surse autentice asigurate de cadrul

didactic.
VI. Planificarea intalnirilor:
1. Principles of Translating ESP Texts

- translations methods
- procedures in translations
Bibliogragie: Greere (pp. 23-43)
Newmark (pp. 45-52) (pp.81-91)
2-3. Translation and Discourse
- cohesion and cohesive devices
- coherence
- information structures
Bibliografie: Baker (pp. 121-140), (180-202), (217-222)
Newmark (pp. 54-66)
4.Translation and Genre

- genre analysis
- comparative analysis of English and Romanian texts
Bibliografie: Cozma (pp. 49-65)
Greere (pp. 231-236)
5. Textual Analysis
- grammatical structures – equivalence and patterning
Bibliografie: Baker (pp. 82-111)
Cozma (pp. 119-141)
6. Textual Analysis
- lexico- semantic aspects
- specialized terminology
Newmark (pp. 151-161)
7. Translating Authentic Texts based on medical, political, economic and legal

articles.
VII. Evaluarea se face pe baza frecventei si participarii active la curs 40%,
examen scris 60%.
VIII. Prezenta la ore este obligatorie 80%. Plagiatul si frauda se penalizeaza cu
nota 1 (unu) conform regulamentului.
Bassnett- McGuire, S. (1980) Translation Studies, Methuen, London and New York.
Swales,J. M. (1990) Genre Analysis, Cambridge University Press.
DECAN: SEF CATEDRA: TITULAR:

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Prof. dr. Ecaterina
Popa
Anul universitar: 2009 - 2010
Semestrul: 1 (Specializarea: limba şi literatura engleză secundar)

Titlul disciplinei: Literatura irlandeză contemporana
Codul: LE31224
Locul de desfăşurare: conform orarului.
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform orarului (în săptămânile impare).
CCLXII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Conf. dr. Adrian Radu

Informaţii de contact: aradu@lett.ubbcluj.ro
Ore de audienţă: conform programului afişat la cabinet
CCLXIII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Acest curs care face parte din programul de Studii irlandeze este menit sa familiarizeze
studenţii cu literatura irlandeză văzută în special în perspectivă diacronică, şi anume cu
principalele manifestări şi direcţii literare şi cu cele mai importante nume de pe scena
literară irlandeză din timpurile gaelice şi până la începutul secolului al XX-lea. Abordarea
de bază este cea tematică în cazul fiecărui autor discutat. Modului încearcă să detaşeze
ceea ce este specific irlandez dar şi aspectele de universalitate din cadrul fenomenului
literar irlandez, modalitatea cum Irlanda şi viaţa din Irlanda sunt reprezentate textual,
felul cum se conturează conceptul de identitate irlandeză. Se includ un număr de texte
specifice perioadelor discutate având drept scop să îi apropie pe studenţi de ceea ce s-a
creat pe plan cultural-literar în aceşti ani, să îi facă să discearnă modalitatea cum
problemele şi tendinţele perioadelor respective se reflectă în creaţiile literare (proza şi
poezia) şi gradul în care acestea au putut satisface orizontul de aşteptare al cititorilor
irlandezi din perioadele incluse în studiu dar şi a celor de azi.
CCLXIV. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Volumele de mai jos se găsesc la Biblioteca de engleză a Facultăţii de Litere (cele

marcate cu BE) sau la Biblioteca irlandeză a catedrei (cele marcate cu BI).
Bibliografie literară
The Táin (BI)
Sweeney Astray (se recomandă traducerea lui Seamus Heaney) (BI)
Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent (BI)
William Carleton: The Black Prophet (BI)
Somerville and Ross: The Real Charlotte, Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. (BI)
Sheridan Le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly (‘Carmilla’) (BI)
Stoker: Dracula (BE, BI)
John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World (BI)
Douglas Hyde: ‘The Necessity of De-Anglicising Ireland’ (BI)
William Butler Yeats: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree, ‘September 1913’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The
Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘Coole Park, 1929’, Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Byzantium’, ‘The
Second Coming’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ (BE)
James Joyce: Dubliners (‘The Dead’), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (BE)
Antologii de texte
Deane, Seamus, ed. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature. Vols. 2 and 3. Derry:
Field Day Publications, 1991. (BI)
Heaney, Marie. Over Nine Waves. London: Faber and Faber, 1994. (BI)
Bibliografie critică
Cronin, John. The Anglo-Irish Novel. Vol. 1: ‘The Nineteenth Century’. Belfast:
Appletree Press, 1980. (BI)
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982. (BE)
Ganz, Jeffrey. Introduction. Early Irish Myths and Sagas. London: Penguin, 1981. (BI)
Holdridge, Jefferson. Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, the Beautiful and
the Sublime. Dublin: University College Press, 2003. (BI)
Jeffares, Norman. W. B. Yeats: A New Biography. London: Arena, 1990. (BE)
Kelleher, Margaret and Philip O’Leary. The Cambridge History of Irish Literature. 2
vols. Cambridge: CUP, 2006. (BI)
Kiberd, Declan: Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation. London:
Vintage, 1995. (BI)
Litz, A. Walton James Joyce. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1966. (BE)
MacCullach, Ian. Celtic Mythology. Thames and Hudson: London, 1996. (BI)
Stuart, Gilbert. F. James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. New York: Vintage, 1959. (BE)
Tindall, William York. A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’. London:
Thames and Hudson, 1969. (BE)
Radu, Adrian. Irish Literature. Suport de curs. (BE)
Radu, Adrian. Irish Literature: Text extracts. Abreviat “TE” în desfăşurătorul de mai jos.
(BE şi www.lett.ubbcluj.ro/~aradu)
CCLXV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
Proiector şi CD player asigurate de facultate.
CCLXVI. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Saptamana 1: Early Irish Myths and Sagas

The Mythological Cycle: the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Milesians. The Ulster Cycle:
Macha, Cú Chulainn, The Táin. The Fenian / Ossianic Cycle. Fionn Mac Cool and the
Fianna, Oisín and Caoilte. The voyage tales. The Historical / King Cycle: The buile
motif and the story of Sweeney.
Cuvinte cheie: Cú Chulainn, Macha, Medbh, Fionn MacCool, the Fianna,
dinnsheanchas, imramm, echtra, the buile motif.
Bibliografie literară: The Táin, Sweeney Astray.

Bibliografie critică: Ganz (10-27), Heaney (ix-xi).
Saptamana 2: Anglo-Irish Prose in Modern Ireland

The search for expression. The condition of Ireland novel. Maria Edgeworth: Castle
Rackrent and the regional novel; William Carleton: The Black Prophet, the Famine and
the struggle for life; Somerville and Ross: The Real Charlotte, Some Experiences of an
Irish R. M. and the tragi-comedy of manners. Authenticity and / or imagery and the new
Gothic: Sheridan Le Fanu: (In a Glass Darkly: ‘Carmilla’) and Bram Stoker
(Dracula).
Cuvinte cheie: regional novel, the Big House motif, Protestant Ascendancy, the Irish
Gothic
Bibliografie literară: Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackren, Somerville and Ross: The
Real Charlotte, Sheridan LeFanu: ‘Carmilla’, Briam Stoker: Dracula.
Bibliografie critică: Cronin (92-5); opţional: McNally and Florescu (1-28).
Săptămâna 3: The Irish Literary Revival

Directions, ideas, societies, the literary scene: representatives, emblems, opponents. Dr.
Douglas Hyde: ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’. Towards an Irish National
Theatre: the place of W. B. Yeats (Cathleen Ni Houlihan). The co-revivalists: Lady
Augusta Gregory and Edward Martyn.: life in the West (The Aran Islands); the
parody of stereotypes and the unsentimental representation of Ireland (The Playboy of
the Western World).
Cuvinte cheie: Irish nation and nationalism, Irish Revival, Irish National Theatre,
nationalism and representation, stereotypical representations.
Bibliografie literară: Douglas Hyde: ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’,

John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World.
Bibliografie critică: Kelleher and O’Leary (2: 226-69).
Săptămâna 4 şi 5: William Butler Yeats

Aesthetic principles and perspectives. Philosophy: A Vision. Political poems: September
1913’ and ‘Easter Rising 1916’. The Coole Park poems: ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ and
‘Coole Park’. The philosophical poems: ‘The Second Coming’ and ‘Leda and the Swan’.
The Byzantium poems: ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantium’.
Cuvinte cheie: gyres, dispensations, cyclical development, phases of the Moon,

Yeatsian symbolism and representation, Hellenic and Christian civilizations,
Byzantium, Coole Park, Second Coming.
Bibliografie literară: ‘September 1913’, ‘Easter Rising 1916’, ‘The Wild Swans at
Coole’, ‘Coole Park’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Leda and the Swan’.
Bibliografie critică: Holdridge (105-7), opţional: Brown (229-36).
Săptămâna 6 şi 7: James Joyce

Joyce’s kind of Ireland in Dubliners: ‘A Painful Case’ and ‘The Dead’. The prototype of
the creative artist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses: avatars of Ulysses
and Telemachus and the Homeric story; the motif of quest: the father and the son; Joyce’s
innovative narrative technique; the Joycean text in the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode.
Cuvinte cheie: paralysis and servitude, the condition of the artist, epiphany, Irish
nationalism, mythic representation, pastiche, narrative technique, stream of
consciousness / interior monologue.
Bibliografie literară: Dubliners (“The Dead”), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young

Man, Ulysses (the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode).
Bibliografie critică: Kiberd (331-4, 327-55).
CCLXVII. Modul de evaluare:
 lucrări de semestru, proiecte de cercetare (participare activă etc.) (pondere: 25%),

 examen de sfârşit de semestru (lucrare scrisă sau / si verificare orală – după caz).
CCLXVIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
 Prezenţa la curs este obligatorie în proporţie de 75%.

 Pentru cele 3 credite aferente distribuţiei 31224 din Planul de învăţământ se iau în
calcul notele de la cursul opţional de limbă iar nota finala este dată de media celor
două. Condiţia promovării şi obţinerii celor 3 credite este promovarea fiecărei
componente în parte.
 Plagiatul si frauda va determina automat sistarea procesului de examinare şi
evaluarea cu nota 1 (unu). Se va solicita conducerii facultăţii exmatricularea
studentului in cauza conform regulamentului.
 La afişarea rezultatelor examenului se va menţiona adresa de email la care
studenţii pot afla detalii despre lucrările lor precum şi data şi ora când studenţii
pot sa-si vadă lucrările.
 Orice contestaţie a notei obţinute se va depune în termen de 2 zile de la afişarea
rezultatului şi va trebui însoţită de o cerere din partea studentului pentru
reevaluarea lucrării. Această reevaluare se va face de faţă cu studenţii în decurs de
2 zile de la data depunerii contestaţiei.
CCLXIX. Bibliografia opţională:
Brown, Terence. The Life of W. B. Yeats. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

Craig, Patricia, ed. The Oxford Book of Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
(BI)
McNally, Raymond and Radu Florescu. In Search of Dracula. Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
(Bibl. titularului de curs).
McCormack, W. J., ed. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1999. (BI)
Welch, Robert, ed. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996. (BI)
Decan, Şef de catedra, Titular de curs,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Adrian Radu
Semestrul
Titlul disciplinei: Canonul literar (curs optional)

Codul: 31225
CCLXX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Conf. dr. Lucian Dunarean

Ore de audienţă:
CCLXXI. Descrierea disciplinei:
Lipseşte silabusul
Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Violence in modern and contemporary American literature (Romanul

american contemporan)
Codul: LE 31225
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere, sala stabilită conform orarului
CCLXXII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Lect. dr. Rareş Moldovan

Informaţii de contact: rareshmoldovan@yahoo.com
CCLXXIII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiective:
 Cursul îşi propune să analizeze tema violenţei în literatura americană modernă, şi
mai ales contemporană, pe o serie de paliere (topoi ai violenţei,: conflict
personal/armat, violenţă sexuală, violenţe de limbaj, reprezentări ale violenţei,
mediu şi cauze, violenţă explicată şi neexplicată, etc.), oferind astfel o radiografie
tematică şi o bază pentru analize ale acestui sindrom societal şi cultural.
 Metode: predare, discuţii, prezentări ale studenţilor, vizionări de film
CCLXXIV. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Operele literare indicate în fiecare caz.
Bibliografia va fi furnizată de către cadrul didactic, în cazurile în care nu este

disponibilă.
CCLXXV. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

 Calculator şi proiector pentru prezentări Powerpoint, DVD player pentru
prezentarea de material multimedia
 Copii xerox
CCLXXVI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Săptămâna 1
 Introducere a cursului
 Radiografia violenţei, preistoria violenţei în literatura americană, violenţă
religioasă, coerciţie şi supunere, violenţă şi individ, violenţă rasială, pacifism
 Violenţă şi reprezentare, imaginarul violent
Bibliografie: Charles Bellinger, The genealogy of violence: reflections on creation,

freedom and evil, Oxford U. P., 2001; René Girard, Violence and the sacred, Johns
Hopkins U. P., 1979 (sau ediţia română, Nemira, 1995).
Săptămâna 2
 Violenţă, reprezentare şi eroism, studiu de caz: Stephen Crane, The red badge of
courage, Ambrose Bierce, An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge, în comparaţie cu
Ernest Hemingway, A farewell to arms (fragmente).
Săptămâna 3
 Gestica şi retorica rituală a violenţei, agresor şi victimă, violenţă şi lipsă

de sens: William Faulkner, Light in August (fragment), Flannery O’Connor, A good
man is hard to find, A circle in the fire; Ralph Ellison, Invisible man (fragmente).
Săptămâna 4
 Violenţă şi traumă (1), amintire şi inocenţă: J. D. Salinger, For Esmé, with love
and squalor, A perfect day for banana fish, The catcher in the rye (fragmente).
Săptămâna 5
 Violenţă şi traumă (2). Escapism şi eufemizare ficţională: Kurt Vonnegut,

Slaughterhouse 5 (fragmente).
Săptămânile 6-7
 Sex, droguri, şi nebunie (1): generaţia terminată. Ken Kesey, One flew over a
cuckoo’s nest (fragmente). Vizionarea filmului.
Săptămânile 8-9
 Sex, droguri, şi nebunie (2). Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and loathing in Las
Vegas. Violenţă, spectacol, teroare paranoică. Suportabilitate. Discuţie comparată
a romanului şi filmului.
Săptămâna 10
 Întunecaţii ani ’80 (1). Violenţă şi virtual, cyberpunk şi post-umanitate/post-
umanism: William Gibson, Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick, Do androids dream of
electric sheep? (plus referinţe la Blade Runner, 1982, r. Ridley Scott).
Săptămânile 11-12
 Întunecaţii ani ’80 (2). Violenţă, manierism, stilizare şi nihilism. Brett Easton
Ellis, American Psycho. Analiza romanului şi a filmului (American Psycho, 2000,
r. Mary Harron).
 Violenţă şi post-umanism, fiinţa neajutorată şi grupurile de suport. Chuck

Palahniuk, Fight Club. Analiza romanului şi filmului Fight club (1999, r. David
Fincher).
CCLXXVII. Modul de evaluare:
Evaluarea se va face prin colocviu. Factori care pot contribui la evaluare: participarea
activă la discuţii, prezentări ale operelor.
CCLXXVIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
Prezenţa la curs este obligatorie. La examen vor fi admişi doar studenţii care au prezenţă
de peste 60 % la seminarii. Orele pierdute vor fi recuperate în zile stabilite împreună cu
studenţii. Frauda la examen se soldează cu excluderea din examen a studentului.
Contestaţiile vor fi rezolvate conform politicii facultăţii.
CCLXXIX. Bibliografia opţională:
James A. Baker, Necessary Violence: Rhetorical Violence in 20th century American

Literature, Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University, 2006
W. M. Frohock The novel of violence in America, Dallas U. P., 1950
Michael Kowalewski Deadly musings: Violence and verbal form in American Fiction
Patrick W. Shaw The modern American Novel of Violence, Whitston, 2000
Sabine Silke, Reading rape: The rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature
and culture, Princeton U. P., 2002
Decan Şef de catedră Titular de curs

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Rareş Moldovan

Semestrul I

Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: DISCURS ŞI GEN – curs opţional
Codul: LE3 1226

Cabinetul M8
Obiective:
 să faciliteze analiza modului în care se construiesc mesajele orale sau
scrise
 să familiarizeze studenţii cu strategiile comunicării, cu analiza
conversaţională, în vederea conştientizării competenţelor comunicative,
discursive şi culturale în procesul complex al comunicării
 să scoată în evidenţă caracterul interdisciplinar al analizei discursului,
necesitatea de a studia problemele legate de discurs şi gen făcând apel la
discipline de studiu cum ar fi: lingvistica, antropologia, psihologia
socială, literatura, etc.
Conţinut:
XV. PREZENTAREA CURSULUI. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE.
DEFINIŢII.
XVI. TEXT VERSUS DISCOURSE. COHESION AND COHERENCE.
XVII. REFERENCE, SUBSTITUTION AND ELLIPSIS.
XVIII. CONJUNCTION RELATIONS AND LEXICAL DEVICES.
XIX. THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND
DISCOURSE.
XX. WOMEN'S LANGUAGE: DIFFERENTIAL GENDER SOCIALIZATION
AND THE SO-CALLED “NONFORCEFUL STYLE”
VII. CASE STUDIES
Competenţe:
 abilitatea de a înţelege relaţia dintre discurs si text, şi rolul structurii
informaţiei în realizarea textelor
c. înţelegerea de bază a elementelor de coeziune şi coerenţă
 capacitatea de a comunica eficient, oral şi în scris
 abilitatea de a percepe limbajul ca o oglindă a aspectelor socio-politice
ale relaţiilor de gen
 capacitatea de a detecta anumite tipare de utilizare a limbajului folosite cu
precădere de către femei, respectiv de către bărbaţi, motivele şi efectele
utilizării acestor tipare
Metode de predare:
1. Bal, Mieke. "The Violence of Gender." A Companion to Gender Studies. Essed,

Philomena, David Theo Goldberg and Audrey Kobayashi (eds). Blackwell
Publishing, 2004.
2. Nunan, D. – Introducing Discourse, Penguin English, 1993.
3. Truth, S. (1851) Ain't I a Woman available at
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruthwoman.html.
4. Wodak, Ruth. "Discourse." A Companion to Gender Studies. Essed, Philomena,
David Theo Goldberg and Audrey Kobayashi (eds). Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
5. Wodak, Ruth (ed.). 1997. Gender and Discourse London: Sage .
6. Materiale auxiliare xeroxate. Materialele se gasesc la Biblioteca Facultatii de
Litere.


intermediare:
I. PREZENTAREA CURSULUI. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINIŢII.

modern linguistics and discourse analysis
II. TEXT VERSUS DISCOURSE. COHESION AND COHERENCE

text and discourse, cohesive texts, coherent texts, cohesiveness versus coherence
III. REFERENCE, SUBSTITUTION AND ELLIPSIS.
personal reference, demonstrative reference, comparative reference, endophoric

reference, exophoric reference, anaphoric reference, cataphoric reference
nominal substitution, verbal substitution, clausal substitution

nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis, clausal ellipsis
IV. COHESIVE DEVICES. CONJUNCTION RELATIONS AND LEXICAL

DEVICES.
additive, adversative, temporal and clausal conjunction relations
reiteration versus collocation; repetition, synonymy, general word, hyponymy
V. THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND DISCOURSE.

biological sex versus sociocultural constructs of gender
social and political aspects of gender relations
VI. WOMEN'S LANGUAGE: DIFFERENTIAL GENDER SOCIALIZATION AND

THE SO-CALLED “NONFORCEFUL STYLE”
gender-related patterns of language use
intonation, interruption, indirectness, expletives
linguistic “tentativeness features”
VII. CASE STUDIES

providing descriptive accounts of female discourse and male discourse
revealing how language functions as a symbolic resource used to shape and manage
personal, social, and cultural meanings and identities
exerciţiile indicate şi să citească partea relevantă a bibliografiei obligatorii indicate de
titularul de curs.


1. Brown, G. & G. Yule – Discourse Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
2. Carter, R. & P. Simpson (eds.) – Language, Discourse and Literature, London,
UNWIN HYMAN, 1989.
3. Cook, G. – Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1984.
4. Coulthard, M. – An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Longman, 1972.
5. Halliday, M.A. K. & R. Hasan – Cohesion in English, Longman, 1994.
6. Quirk, R. & Greenbaum, S. (1973) – A University Grammar of English, Longman.
Materialele se găsesc la Biblioteca Facultăţii de Litere şi Biblioteca Britanică

Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai Cluj Napoca
Semestrul 5
I. Informații generale despre curs
Titlul discplinei: The Contemporary English Novel: Trends and Tendencies

(Romanul englez contemporan: curente și tendințe)
Codul: LE31226
Locul de desfășurare: conform orarului întocmit la Facultatea de Litere
Programerea în orar a activităților:
II. Informații despre titularul de curs:

Nume, titlu științific: BERCE SANDA, Conferențiar doctor
Informații de contact: sandaberce@yahoo.com
Ore de audiență: 2
III. Descrierea disciplinei: The course seeks to define the English contemporary
novel in relationship to the modern and the postmodern literature with the
trends and tendencies that have developed since the 1970’s.
(1) It tends to re-think the value of ‘national identity’ in a globalizing world
and the relationship between the European multi-culture and the
‘transcultural’ identity;
(2) It defines the change of voice (male-female) in the contemporary English
novel;
(3) It proposes a way of analyzing and interpreting the contemporary novel
with its complex and/or simple narrative strategies and its figural
discourses.
It is an interactive course based on the discussion of six novels, of their
interpretation and analysis, (two) contact hours pre week in 7(seven) weeks.
Primary sources:
- Rose Tremain, Restoration (1989);
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001);
Jennifer Johnston, This is Not a Novel (2002);
John McGahern, Amongst Women (1992);
Tim Parks, Europa (1997);
Kazuo Ishiguro (2000) When We Were Orphans.

Secondary sources:
Malcolm Bradbury (1993) The Modern British Novel, Routledge, London;
Brian McHale *(1987) Postmodernist Fiction, Routledge, London;
Andrew Gibson* (1999) Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel, Routledge,

London;
Dominic Head (2002) Modern British Fiction (The Cambridge Introduction to),
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and London;
Philip Tew (2004) The Contemporary British Novel, Continuum Publishing,
London
Peter Childs*(2005) Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since the 1970’s,
Palgrave Macmillan, London;
Sanda Berce (2002) Modernity in English Contemporary Fiction, Editura Dacia,
Cluj-Napoca.
* These books are provided by the tutor in the Reading Packet prepared for the course,
which is available in the English Library.
V. Material folosite în cadrul procesului educațional:
Bibliography: the books which are not provided by the Faculty library (both
primary and secondary sources) are provided by the tutor in the Reading Packet or
as photocopies;
Lecture hand-out, images.
VI. Planificarea întîlnirilor:

Week I: Introductory lecture. Bibliography. How to read and why? Ways of reading the
contemporary novel.
Key words: fiction, non-fiction, change of voice, relocation, historicity, utopic longings,
migrant, authentic.
Bibliography: Philip Tew (2004) “Contemporary Britishness: Who, What, Why, When?”
in The Contemporary British Novel, pp.1-28; Michael Ignatieff (1992) “The Europe of
the Mind” in New Writing (1992) Minerva, Octupus Publishing, pp. 123-131.
Course unit I (Week 2-3): Re-thinking the ‘historical novel’: the play of voice ( Rose
Tremain, Restoration/1989; Ian McEwan, Atonement/2001).
Key words: docudrama, palimpsest, palimpsest history, historical time, social time,
reinventing identity, virtual history, authorship.story-telling.
Bibliography: Brian McHale (1987) Postmodernist Fiction, Andrew Gibson (1999)
“Narrative and Alterity”; “Ethics and Unrepresentability” in Postmodernity, Ethics and
the Novel, pp. 25-41, 54-76.
Course unit II (Week 4-5): Re-thinking national identity: Irishness in the contemporary
world (John McGahern, Amongst Women/ 1992; Jennifer Johnston, This is Not a Novel/
2002).
Key words: virtual identity, virtual history, decolonization, story-telling, confessional

style, fictional autobiography, memoir.
Bibliography: Malcolm Bradbury (1993) The Modern English Novel, ch.VII; Linden
Peach (2004) “Mimickry, Authority and Subversion”, “ Unspoken Desires” in The
Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 68-96,
97- 126; Dominic Head (2002) “Re-inventing Englishness”, Irishness Extended” in
Modern British Fiction (The Cambridge Companion to), pp. 119-124, 141-144.
Course unit III (Week 6-7): Multi-cultural Europe and transnational culture (Tim Parks,
Europa/1997; Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans/2000).
Key words: culture, multi-cultural, transnational culture, migrant mind, reinventing

identity, fluid identity.
Bibliography: T.S.Eliot (1948/1968) “Notes towards a definition of Culture” in
Christianity and Culture, Harcourt Brace, New York and London; Dominic Head (2002)
“Towards Post-Nationalism”, “Multicultural Personae”, in Modern British Fiction (The
Cambridge Comapanion to), pp. 182-187, 156-164; Peter Childs (2005) “Remain in
Dreams” in Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction Since 1970 , pp. 123-141; Malcolm
Bradbury (1993) “The Artist of the Floating World” in The Modern English Novel, pp.
345-380.
VII. Modul de evaluare: Term-end oral examination + class work

Final assessment: Class work: attendance (10%)+in-seminar presentation (30%)+in-
course quiz (10%)+ Term paper score (30%)
Attendance: 90% (compulsory)
It is considered fraud (a) the use of unquoted information in the Term paper (full text
or fragment) and (b) the use of lecture notes, books, prnted pages, cell phones in the
oral examination. The score is 1.00.
Decan, Șef de catedră, Titular de curs,

Semestrul
Titlul disciplinei: Limbaje de specialitate

Codul: LE31227
CCLXXX. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Literaturi etnice

Codul: LE 31227
CCLXXXI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică

sau laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Michaela Mudure, conferentiar doctor in filologie

Ore de consultatii: marti orele 10-11
CCLXXXII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Cursul analizează evolutia literaturilor etnice în SUA, cu accent deosebit pe literatura

amerindienilor şi a negrilor americani. Studiul culturii, a literaturii si a personalitatilor
exemplare ale celor doua comunitati sunt corelate cu studierea mecanismelor
multiculturalismului american. Cursul va fi o combinaţie de prelegeri şi analize aplicate
pe text, dezbateri de tip seminar. Metode utilizate : expunere, dialog, problematizare,
studiul de caz identitar/literar, exercitiul comparativ. Competente in formare : capacitatea
de interpretare si analiza a structurilor etnice ; competente interpretative potrivit noilor
grile interpretative din domeniul studiilor culturale, analizei de text (close reading),
studiului mentalitatilor ; formarea unei atitudini de toleranta si intelegere pentru alteritate.
CCLXXXIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Edward Spicer, A Short History of the Indians of the United States, Malbar, Krieger,
1994.
*** Contemporary Stories by American Indians, New York, Vintage, 1975.
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat, New York, Harper, 1970.
James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man, New York, Picador, 2000.
Gloria Naylor The Two, New York, Vintage, 2001.
James Welch, Fools Crow, New York, Vintage, 2001.
*** Slave Narratives, New York, Routledge, 1999.
Malcom X, Autobiography, New York, Pocket Star Books, 2001.
Heath Anthology of American Literature, Lexington, 2001.
Cărţile se pot gasi la BCU, Biblioteca de Studii Americane, Biblioteca Facultatii de

Litere.
Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Carti, articole de presa, materiale de pe internet.
CCLXXXIV. Planificarea:
Course 1
The First Americans
Cuvinte cheie: colonization, confederacy, Creek, Iroquois, Handsome Lake, prophets, the
five civilized tribes, the Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull, Geronimo,
Activitatea studentilor: identificarea stereotipurilor în materiale mass-media despre
bastinasi.
Bibliografie obligatorie: Edward Spicer, A Short History of the Indians of the United
States, Malbar, Krieger, 1994, pp. 11-66.
Curs 2
American Policies Targetting the Natives
Cuvinte cheie: Mississippi, pacification, Removal, Alotment, the Dawes Act, D’Arcy
McNickle
Activitatea studenţilor : înţelegerea mecanismelor de discriminare şi marginalizare a
băştinaşilor, comparaţii cu situaţii similare din Europa
Bibliografie obligatorie: Edward Spicer, A Short History of the Indians of the United
States, Malbar, Krieger, 1994, pp. 98-123, 200-212.
Curs 3
Leslie Silko – Yellow Woman
Cuvinte cheie : Native American literature, written, oral, myth
Activitatea studentilor : identificarea relatiei specifice dintre realitate si mit in cultura
bastinasilor americani.
Bibliografie obligatorie: *** Contemporary Stories by American Indians, New York,
Vintage, 1975, pp. 23-40.
Curs 4
James Welch – Fools Crow
Cuvinte cheie : history, histories, multiculturalism, interculturalism, historical novel
Activitatea studentilor : dezbatere : realism magic la bastinasi, istorie şi mit la bastinaşii
americani .
Bibliografie obligatorie : James Welch, Fools Crow, New York, Vintage, 2001.
Curs 5
Black Slavery
Cuvinte cheie: Africa, mulatto, indentured servant, the middle passage, slave narratives
Activitatea studentilor : dezbatere si studiu de caz : gen si rasa in sclavia americana,
comparatie cu robia tiganilor in Europa.
Bibliografie obligatorie :
*** Slave Narratives, New York, Routledge, 1999.
Curs 6
African American Literature
Cuvinte cheie : discrimination, race, narrative voice
Activitatea studentilor : decelarea structurilor de rasa, gen si clasa din textele studiate,
constituirea constiintei negritudinii
Bibliografie obligatorie : James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man, New York, Picador,
2000.
Malcom X, Autobiography, New York, Pocket Star Books, 2001.
Curs 7
Black Women Writers
Cuvinte cheie: race, gender, womanism
Activitatea studentilor : determinarea structurilor de gen si rasa, a womanism-ul ca
ideologie a scriitoarelor de culoare
Bibliografie obligatorie:
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat, New York, Harper, 1970.
Gloria Naylor, The Two, New York, Vintage, 2001.
CCLXXXV. Modul de evaluare:

Examen oral şi scris. Nota finala : 50% parcurgerea bibliografiei +informatie+ capacitate
de minuire a informatiei, 30% participare la discutii, 20% corectitudinea limbii engleze si
a limbajului de specialitate.
CCLXXXVI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

CCLXXXVII. Bibliografia opţională:
Leslie Silko, Gardens in the Dunes, New York, Picador, 2005.

Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit, New York, Pocket, 2005.
Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, New York, Ink, 1983.
Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, New York, Holt, 1987.
www.blackslavery.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
www.afgen.com/abmovement.html
www.jimcrowhistory.org
www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance
www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/ civilrights-55-65/index.html
www.blackpanther.org
www.blackwoman. org

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Conf. dr. Mudure Mihaela
Semestrul
I. Informaţii generale despre curs
Titlul disciplinei: ISTORIA LIMBII ENGLEZE

Codul: LE 32221
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere, str. Horea 31
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform orarului stabilit
7. Informaţii despre titularul de curs
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Adrian PAPAHAGI, lect. dr.

Informaţii de contact: papahagi@upcnet.ro
Cursul este o parcurgere a celor mai importante etape ale istoriei limbii engleze:
engleza veche (sec. V-XII), engleza medie (sec. XII-XV) şi engleza modernă timpurie
(sec. XVI-XVII). Totodată, vor fi menţionate rădăcinile germanice şi implicit indo-
europene ale englezei. Cursul are o dublă dimensiune: cea pur istorică, de prezentare
a condiţiilor care au dus la apariţia şi evoluţia limbii de la preistoria sa până în pragul
modernităţii, şi cea lingvistică, de prezentare a structurilor fonologice, morfologice,
sintactice, lexicale şi semantice în cele trei mari perioade ale istoriei limbii. Vom
îmbina astfel în acest curs componenta diacronică, dinamică cu cea sincronică,
descriptivă, încercând să le unim printr-un fir narativ. La seminar vom citi, traduce şi
analiza texte din sec. VII-XVII.
9. Bibliografia obligatorie
Toate cărţile sunt disponibile la biblioteca de engleză a Facultăţii de Litere (BCU)
şi/sau la biblioteca British Council.
1. AC Baugh, Thomas Cable, A History of the English Language, 4th ed. London:
Routledge, 1996.
2. Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 5th ed. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1994.
3. Dennis Freeborn, From Old English to Standard English. A Course in Language
Variation Across Time, London: Macmillan, 1992.
4. Orrin W. Robinson, Old English and Its Closest Relatives. A Survey of the Earliest
Germanic Languages, Stanford UP, 1992.
10. Bibliografia Facultativă

Toate cărţile sunt disponibile la biblioteca de engleză a Facultăţii de Litere (BCU)
şi/sau la biblioteca seminarului de engleză medievală (cabinet M17).
1. JA Burrow, Thorlac Turville-Petre, A Book of Middle English, Oxford: Blackwell,
nd
2 ed. 1996.
2. Randolph Quirk, CL Wrenn, An Old English Grammar, London: Routledge, 1993
(1955).
3. JR Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Toronto, 4th ed. 1993.
4. Colin Renfrew, Archeology and Language. The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.
11. Materiale folosite

Handouts furnizate de profesor.
12. Planificarea/ calendarul întâlnirilor

Studenţii nu au nici o obligaţie în ce priveşte cursurile. La seminar, studenţii trebuie
să pregătească textele propuse.
• Curs 1 — Introducere în lingvistica istorică. Sincronie şi diacronie. Metoda

comparativă. Generalităţi despre istoria englezei, a limbilor germanice şi a limbilor
indo-europene. Periodizarea istoriei limbii engleze.
• Curs 2 — Preistoria englezei. De la indo-europeană la proto-germană. Principalele
caracteristici ale limbilor germanice.
• Curs 3 — Caracteristicile limbilor germanice occidentale. Engleza între limbile
germanice occidentale. Saxona de vest-engleza veche standard.
• Curs 4 — Fonologia englezei vechi: fenomene privind consoanele, vocalele,
accentul de cuvânt.
• Curs 5 — Morfologia englezei vechi. Grupul nominal 1: substantivul. Clase
nominale. Categorii gramaticale ale substantivului.
• Curs 6 — Morfologia englezei vechi. Grupul nominal 2: pronumele.
• Curs 7 — Morfologia englezei vechi. Grupul nominal 3: adjective, numerale.
• Curs 8 — Morfologia englezei vechi. Verbul. Verbe tari şi slabe. Clase verbale tari.
Categoriile gramaticale ale verbului.
• Curs 9 — Engleza medie. Principalele schimbări lingvistice din engleza medie.
• Curs 10 — Morfologia englezei medii 1. Grupul nominal.
• Curs 11 — Morfologia englezei medii 2. Verbul.
• Curs 12 — Dialectele englezei medii. Principalele diferenţe dialectale.
• Curs 13 — Engleza modernă timpurie. Marea mutaţie vocalică.
• Curs 14 — Recapitulare, pregătire pentru examen
• Seminar 1 — Primul contact cu engleza veche. Pronunţia englezei vechi. Elemente

de bază (verbul beon, declinări, pronumele personale).
Handout: Fraze simple în engleza veche.
• Seminar 2 — Engleza veche vs engleza modernă. Lectura unui text autentic simplu,
în proză, cu conţinut cunoscut.
Handout: Un pasaj din Evanghelii în engleza veche şi modernă.
• Seminar 3 — Un text autentic, simplu, cu conţinut necunoscut în engleza veche.
Handout: Un pasaj din The Wonders of the East.
• Seminar 4 — Un text autentic mai complicat, în proză, în engleza veche.
Handout: Povestea lui Caedmon în Istoria ecleziastică a lui Beda.
• Seminar 5 — Un text poetic complicat în engleza veche.
Handout: Moartea lui Beowulf.
• Seminar 6 — De la engleza veche la engleza medie. Dialectele englezei medii.
Handout: Un pasaj din Cronica anglo-saxonă, perioada post-1066. Variante
dialectale din Cursor mundi.
• Seminar 7 — Engleza medie la apogeu. Fenomene fonetice în engleza modernă
timpurie.
Handout: Un pasaj din Poveştile din Canterbury. Poeme fonetice de Robert
Robinson.

Examen scris pe durata a două ore.

• Prezenţa la orele de curs sau de seminar nu este obligatorie. Prezentarea la examen nu
este condiţionată de un număr minim de prezenţe.
• Se va considera plagiat orice lucrare care conţine idei sau citate preluate din surse
neindicate corespunzător (ghilimele, referinţă completă). Lucrarea plagiată va fi notată cu
1. Frauda în timpul examenului va fi pedepsită cu excluderea din examen şi nota 1.
• Lucrările pot fi consultate în ziua stabilită de profesor. Studenţii îşi pot consulta
lucrările cu această ocazie, şi pot contesta nota, în care caz lucrarea va fi reexaminată şi
renotată, dacă aceasta se justifică.
Decan, Şef de catedră, Titular,

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr. Adrian Papahagi
Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Literatura americană

Codul: LE 32262
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere, sala Shakespeare
CCLXXXVIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică

sau laborator

CCLXXXIX. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiective:
 Cursul îşi propune să ofere o perspectivă de ansamblu, cronologică, asupra
scriitorilor şi operelor celor mai semnificative ale literaturii americane, şi în
special, prin analize de text (close reading) ale unor opere fundamentale ale
literaturii americane din secolele 19-20 (proză, poezie, dramă).
 Disciplinei are în vedere următoarele competenţe:
o Cunoaşterea unei serii de autori şi opere reprezentative pentru literatura
americană a secolelor 18-20
o Înţelegerea dezvoltării istorice a literaturii americane în contextul său
social şi politic inextricabil, şi în contextul literaturii universale
o Cunoaşterea principalelor repere teoretice (de istoria ideilor) care au
modelat peisajul culturii americane
o Îmbunătăţirea unor competenţe de lucru cu textul literar, şi de comunicare
în cadrul seminariilor
Metode: predarea, discuţia, prezentări ale studenţilor
CCXC. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Edgar Allan Poe, The masque of the red death, William Wilson, The black cat, The pit
and the pendulum
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter
Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
Walt Whitman, Song of myself
Emily Dickinson, I cannot live with you, Wild nights, wild nights, Great streets of
silence led away, I heard a buzz fly when I died, This was a poet, it is that
F. S. Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby,
E. Hemingway, The sun also rises
Robert Frost, The road not taken, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Birches,
For once then something
William Carlos Williams, The rose, Landscape with the fall of Icarus, Pastoral
William Faulkner, The sound and the fury
Tennessee Williams, A streetcar named desire
Edward Albee, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf
Bibliografia este disponibilă la biblioteca facultăţii, iar în unele cazuri va fi furnizată

de către cadrul didactic
CCXCI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

 Copii xerox
CCXCII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Săptămâna 1
Curs
 Introducere
 Scurtă shiţă a coloniilor şi coloniştilor de origine britanică (pilgrims, puritans,
colonists)
 Puritanism: teologie, teocraţie şi ideologie
 Utopia puritană: comunitate şi soteriologie comunitară.
 Subiectivitate emergentă în poezia puritană: Anne Bradstreet. Contemplaţia şi
sinele poetic individual.
Săptămâna 2
Seminar
 Edgar Allan Poe, The masque of the red death, William Wilson, The black cat,
The pit and the pendulum
 Gotic şi romantic, grotesc şi arabesc, motivul dublul, contaminare şi estetic
Obligaţiile studenţilor: lectura textelor, prezentări de seminar pentru fiecare text în
parte
Săptămâna 3
Curs
 Naraţiuni „fondatoare”, identitare şi naraţiuni personale: Cotton Mather,
Jonathan Edwards, Jean de Crèvecoeur
 Cum să construieşti o epocă a raţiunii: deism şi pragmatism, Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Paine, , My own mind is my own church” (Thomas Paine).
 Erupţia transcendentalismului: R.W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau
Săptămâna 4
Seminar.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter; Herman Melville, Bartleby, the
scrivener
 Roman şi romance, romantism şi privire retrospectivă, critica sistemului,
opoziţie pasivă
 Obligaţiile studenţilor: lectura textelor, prezentări de seminar pentru fiecare
text în parte
Săptămâna 5
Curs
 Romantismul american: trăsături şi specificitate
 Proza: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
 E. A. Poe şi o poetică anti-romantică: The philosophy of composition v. The
Raven
Săptămâna 6
Seminar
 Walt Whitman, Song of myself, Emily Dickinson, poems I cannot live with
you, Wild nights, wild nights, Great streets of silence led away, I heard a buzz
fly when I died, This was a poet, it is that
 Modernitate emergentă, poezia modernă, poezia socială şi avântul
transcendental; eros, extaz, şi intensitate la Emily Dickinson
text în parte
Săptămâna 7
Curs
 Modernitate incipientă în poezia americană: Walt Whitman, Preface to the
Leaves of Grass, bard şi naţiune, poetica simplităţii şi a solidarităţii la
Whitman
 Exilată în modernitate: Emily Dickinson
Săptămâna 8
Seminar
 F. S. Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby, E. Hemingway, The sun also rises
 „The Roaring Twenties”, „The Jazz Age”, „The Lost Generation”, „The Self
Made Man”, sexualitate şi gen
text în parte
Săptămâna 9
Curs
 Modernitate şi modernism în America
 Modernisms, higher and lower: Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell
 Imagism, vorticism, ideologia unitară a modernismelor (Fredric Jameson)
Săptămâna 10
Seminar
 Robert Frost, The road not taken, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening,
Birches, For once then something, William Carlos Williams, The rose,
Landscape with the fall of Icarus, Pastoral
 Modernism şi tradiţionalism, poezia aurală, posibile deschideri spre
postmodernism
text în parte
Săptămâna 11
Curs
 William Faulkner, geografii mitice şi arhetipale
 Declinul Sudului şi declinul modernismului
 Comunitate, primitivism, nativism, v. Urbanism (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos
Passos)
 Story and history: Light in august, As I lay dying, The reivers
Săptămâna 12
Seminar
 William Faulkner, The sound and the fury
 Formulă şi voci narative, istoria textului, istorii fragmentare, cartografii pars
pro toto
text în parte
Săptămâna 13
Curs
 Dramaturgia americană în secolul 20, modernism, naturalism, anti-naturalism:
 E. O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, E. Albee; realism, myth, and the subconscious
 Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-off-Broadway
 Teatru experimental: Sam Shepard; Neo-realism: David Mamet
Săptămâna 14
Seminar
 Tennessee Williams, A streetcar named desire, Edward Albee, Who’s afraid of
Virginia Woolf
 Obligaţiile studenţilor: lectura textelor, prezentări de seminar pentru fiecare text
în parte
 Recapitulare pentru examen
CCXCIII. Modul de evaluare:
Evaluarea se va face prin examen. Factori care pot contribui la evaluare: participarea
activă la discuţii, prezentări de seminar
CCXCIV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
Prezenţa la curs este facultativă. Prezenţa la seminarii este obligatorie. La examen vor fi
admişi doar studenţii care au prezenţă de peste 60 % la seminarii. Orele pierdute vor fi
recuperate în zile stabilite împreună cu studenţii. Frauda la examen se soldează cu
excluderea din examen a studentului. Contestaţiile vor fi rezolvate conform politicii
facultăţii.
CCXCV. Bibliografia opţională:
Commager, H.S. The American Mind, Yale U.P., 1959

Conn, Peter The Literature of America, Cambridge U.P., 1989
Cunliffe, Marcus The Literature of the United States Penguin, 1986
Feidelson, Charles Symbolism and American Literature, University of Chicago
Press, 1983
Horton, Rod
Edwards, Herbert Backgrounds of American Literary Thought, Prentice Hall,
1974
McMichael, George (et al.) Anthology of American Literature, vols. I-II, Macmillan,
1989
Spiller, Robert (et al.) Literary History of the United States, Macmillan,
1953
Nye, Russel
Grabo, Norman (eds.) American Thought and Writing, vol. II, Houghton Mifflin,
1965
Stafford, John The Literary Criticism of “Young America”, Russell &
Russell, 1967
Elliot, Emory The Columbia Literary History of the United States,
Columbia U.P., 1988

Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Literatura americana a sec. XX

Codul: LE 32262
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere, sala stabilită conform orarului
CCXCVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

CCXCVII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiective:
 Cursul îşi propune să analizeze tema violenţei în literatura americană modernă, şi
mai ales contemporană, pe o serie de paliere (topoi ai violenţei,: conflict
personal/armat, violenţă sexuală, violenţe de limbaj, reprezentări ale violenţei,
mediu şi cauze, violenţă explicată şi neexplicată, etc.), oferind astfel o radiografie
tematică şi o bază pentru analize ale acestui sindrom societal şi cultural.
 Metode: predare, discuţii, prezentări ale studenţilor, vizionări de film
CCXCVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Operele literare indicate în fiecare caz.
Bibliografia va fi furnizată de către cadrul didactic, în cazurile în care nu este

disponibilă.
CCXCIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

 Copii xerox
CCC. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Săptămâna 1
 Radiografia violenţei, preistoria violenţei în literatura americană, violenţă
religioasă, coerciţie şi supunere, violenţă şi individ, violenţă rasială, pacifism
 Violenţă şi reprezentare, imaginarul violent
Bibliografie: Charles Bellinger, The genealogy of violence: reflections on creation,

freedom and evil, Oxford U. P., 2001; René Girard, Violence and the sacred, Johns
Hopkins U. P., 1979 (sau ediţia română, Nemira, 1995).
Săptămâna 2
 Violenţă, reprezentare şi eroism, studiu de caz: Stephen Crane, The red badge of
courage, Ambrose Bierce, An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge, în comparaţie cu
Ernest Hemingway, A farewell to arms (fragmente).
Săptămâna 3
 Gestica şi retorica rituală a violenţei, agresor şi victimă, violenţă şi lipsă

de sens: William Faulkner, Light in August (fragment), Flannery O’Connor, A good
man is hard to find, A circle in the fire; Ralph Ellison, Invisible man (fragmente).
Săptămâna 4
 Violenţă şi traumă (1), amintire şi inocenţă: J. D. Salinger, For Esmé, with love
and squalor, A perfect day for banana fish, The catcher in the rye (fragmente).
Săptămâna 5
 Violenţă şi traumă (2). Escapism şi eufemizare ficţională: Kurt Vonnegut,

Slaughterhouse 5 (fragmente).
Săptămânile 6-7
 Sex, droguri, şi nebunie (1): generaţia terminată. Ken Kesey, One flew over a
cuckoo’s nest (fragmente). Vizionarea filmului.
Săptămânile 8-9
 Sex, droguri, şi nebunie (2). Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and loathing in Las
Vegas. Violenţă, spectacol, teroare paranoică. Suportabilitate. Discuţie comparată
a romanului şi filmului.
Săptămâna 10
 Întunecaţii ani ’80 (1). Violenţă şi virtual, cyberpunk şi post-umanitate/post-
umanism: William Gibson, Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick, Do androids dream of
electric sheep? (plus referinţe la Blade Runner, 1982, r. Ridley Scott).
 Întunecaţii ani ’80 (2). Violenţă, manierism, stilizare şi nihilism. Brett Easton
Ellis, American Psycho. Analiza romanului şi a filmului (American Psycho, 2000,
r. Mary Harron).
 Violenţă şi post-umanism, fiinţa neajutorată şi grupurile de suport. Chuck

Palahniuk, Fight Club. Analiza romanului şi filmului Fight club (1999, r. David
Fincher).
CCCI. Modul de evaluare:
activă la discuţii, prezentări ale operelor.
CCCII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
CCCIII. Bibliografia opţională:
James A. Baker, Necessary Violence: Rhetorical Violence in 20th century American

Literature, Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University, 2006
W. M. Frohock The novel of violence in America, Dallas U. P., 1950
Michael Kowalewski Deadly musings: Violence and verbal form in American Fiction
Patrick W. Shaw The modern American Novel of Violence, Whitston, 2000
Sabine Silke, Reading rape: The rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature
and culture, Princeton U. P., 2002

Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Cultura si predarea limbii (curs optional)

Codul: LE32222

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
1. Descrierea disciplinei
It is universally acknowledged that there is one skill that children are far better at than
grown-ups: their “talent” of acquiring their mother tongue effortlessly makes adults and
young adults, struggling to learn a foreign language, green with envy. The course
explores the differences between first language (L1) and second language (L2)
acquisition, and their relevance in designing strategies in learning/ teaching a foreign
language. Concepts such as Universal Grammar (UG), the language faculty, or linguistic
competence, which are being introduced in the mainstream course Introduction in
Generative Grammar this fall, are essential to this course. The social and cultural aspects
of language that people use in order to create or change meaning, and which may vary
across cultures, are an important part of what we call the knowledge of a particular
language and will also be discussed, as well as people’s attitude towards language and
language varieties and the importance of language in defining group identity (nationality,
ethnicity, social identity).
Copiii au un talent unic si ades invidiat de adolescenţi şi de adulţi: acela de a “prinde” cu

uşurinţă şi aparent fără efort o limbă străină. Acest curs explorează diferenţele între
achiziţia limbii materne şi achiziţia limbii străine şi relevanţa lor în a găsi strategiile cele
mai potrivite în procesul de predare a limbilor străine. Înţelegerea unor concepte ca
Gramatica universală sau competenţa lingvistică, introduse în cursul obligatoriu de
Gramatică generativă din semestrul trecut este foarte importantă pentru acest curs.
Aspectele sociale şi culturale care influenţează comunicarea şi care sînt parte integrantă
din ceea ce se numeşte “cunoaşterea unei limbi străine” vor fi de asemeanea abordate, la
fel ca şi felul în care vorbitorii se raportează la limba pe care o vorbesc din punct de
vedere al identităţii politice, sociale şi culturale.
16. Required bibliography
Ralph Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton (2006) An Introduction to Language and
Linguistics, Cambridge University Press (capitolele selectate pentru acest curs se găsesc
într-un dosar la bibiloteca de engleză a facultăţii).

Obiectives:
 Become familiar with key sociolinguistic terms and concepts describing the
aspects of language which may vary from one culture to another and are
sometimes key factors in crosscultural (mis)communication;
 Explain and explore the relationship between language and group identity;
 Present and discuss the politics of language control and standardization and
the way it enforces bias and discrimination;
Content:
1. Language and culture: Culturally influenced aspects of language. Conversational styles
2. Language and politics: Language and identity. Language standardization. Political
corectness.
Competenţe:
 Considerarea aspectelor culturale în predarea limbilor străine;
 Considerearea atît a aspectelor standard cît şi non-standard şi valorizarea
lor diferită în preadarea limbilor străine.
Metode de predare:
 citirea bibiografiei indicate înainte de curs;
 discuţii în cadrul cursului pe baza lecturii obigatorii
 lucru in grup (discuţii, cooperare, negociere) pe baza unui problem-
solving task
18. Planificarea/Calendarul întâlnirilor (Weekly Schedule)
Week 1
Presentation of the course’s description, objectives, schedule, requirements,
bibligraphy, and assessment.
Week 3
Topic: Language and culture: Culturally influenced aspects of language
Obiectives:
 Identify the role played by language in crosscultural encounters
 Identify the specific linguistic elements that speakers use to convey meaning
in conversation and how they can vary from one culture to another
Key words:
 topic
 agonism
 amplitude, pitch, tone of voice
 intonation
 overlap and interruption
 turn-taking
 indirectness
 framing
Reading due:
 Ralph Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton (2006) An Introduction to Language and
Linguistics, Cambridge University Press , pp. 344-354
Week 5.
Topic: Language and culture: Conversational styles
Obiectives:
 Become familiar with key terms and concepts in anthropological linguistic
analyses of linguistic relativity
 Realize how the encounter of different conversational styles may lead to
crosscultural misunderstandings, negative stereotyping, and discrimination.
 Identify key problems and possible solutions in translating culture
Key words:
 proxemis
 complementary schismogenesis
 exuberancies and dificiencies
Reading due:
Week 7.
Topic: Language and politics: Language and identity.
Obiectives:
 explain the role of identity in political actions concerning language
 offer insight into selected cases of the politics of language.
Key words:
 national language
 nationist language
 multiethnic nation
 multinational state
Reading due:
Week 9.
Topic: Language and politics: Language standardization. Political corectness.
Obiectives:
 Make clear the concept of language standardization from the linguistic
perspective
 Present diglossia as a unique way that communities organize and evaluate the
varieties of the languages they speak
 Present the difficulties in distinguishing languages and dialects and the
political issues that arise from this difficulty
 Present the politics of speech content control
Key words:
 language
 dialect
 diglossia
 minimum standard
 arbitrary standard
 non-standard
 substandard
 low dialect
 high dialect
 hate speech
Reading due:
Week 11
Final test

Evaluarea se va face atât pe parcursul semestrului cât şi în timpul examinării finale,
astfel:
Lucrări de control( 2) neanunţate pe parcursul semestrului (2 teme) – 20%
Test final 70%
Prezenţă activă la ore 10%

Prezenţa la orele de curs este obligatorie in proporţie de 70%. Prezenţa activă redusă la
ore sau prezentarea la ore fără pregătirea corespunzătoare atrage după sine scăderea notei
finale cu până la un punct. În cazul în care studentul a lipsit la cursurile la care s-au dat
lucrările de control neanunţate, acestea nu pot fi susţinute la nici o altă, iar nota finală va
fi, în consecinţă, scăzută cu 1 (dacă s-a lipsit la doar o lucrare de control) sau 2 puncte
(dacă s-a lipsit la ambele lucrări de control).

TODEA
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Poezia canadiana

Codul: LE32222
CCCIV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

Ore de audienţă:

Semestrul II
Anul III Semestrul II

Specializarea B
Titlul disciplinei: ENGLEZĂ IDIOMATICĂ – curs opţional
Codul: LE 32223
XVIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Cabinetul M8
XIX. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiective:
 să puncteze diferenţele între idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations,
euphemisms şi slang
 să faciliteze înţelegerea de bază a celor mai des folosite expresii
idiomatice şi verbe din categoria „phrasal verbs” din limba engleză şi să
dezvolte abilitatea de a folosi aceste expresii oral şi în scris
 să asigure conştientizarea diverselor registre de formalitate şi capacitatea
de a folosi cuvântul potrivit la locul potrivit.
Conţinut:
Cap. I. PREZENTAREA CURSULUI. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINITII SI
ETIMOLOGIE.
Cap. II. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE ADJECTIVE SI ADVERBE, PE ADJECTIVE SI
SUBSTANTIVE. PERECHI IDIOMATICE.
Cap. III. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE PREPOZITII
Cap. IV. IDIOMURI SPECIFICE ANUMITOR DOMENII
Cap. V. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE CUVINTE CHEIE DIN DIVERSE CATEGORII
Cap. VI. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE COMPARATII
Cap. VII. RECAPITULARE
Competenţe:
 cunoaşterea unor expresii idiomatice uzuale din limba engleză
 abilitatea de a înţelege şi de a folosi un număr semnificativ de idiomuri şi
“phrasal verbs”
Metode de predare:
 rezolvarea unor exerciţii practice cu idioms şi phrasal verbs (60%)
XX. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Toate materialele aflate în dosarul depus la biblioteca Facultăţii de litere
XXI. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

didactic.
XXII. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor

intermediare:
I. PREZENTAREA CURSULUI. DISTINCŢII TERMINOLOGICE. DEFINIŢII ŞI

ETIMOLOGIE.
Conţinut, cerinţe, programarea întâlnirilor, materialele necesare, modul de
evaluare. Idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations, euphemisms, slang.
Expresii idiomatice şi expresii ne-idiomatice.
II. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE ADJECTIVE ŞI ADVERBE, PE ADJECTIVE ŞI

SUBSTANTIVE. PERECHI IDIOMATICE.
Bad, big, dead, flat, good, hard, high, hot, long, old, short, thick, thin.
End, line, matter, mind, point, thing, way, word, world.
Perechi de adjective şi perechi de adverbe. Perechi de substantive, verbe; perechi
identice.
III. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE PREPOZIŢII

Above, across, after, against, at, behind, below, by, for, from, in, off, on, out, over,
round, to, under, up, within
IV. IDIOMURI SPECIFICE ANUMITOR DOMENII:

Banking, business, buying and selling, health, illness, death, motoring, politics
and government, the stock exchange, telephoning, travel, work and industrial
relations.
V. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE CUVINTE CHEIE DIN DIVERSE CATEGORII:

Animals, colours, number, one, two, three, size, inch, mile, arm, back, blood,
bone, brain, chest, ear, elbow, eye, face, finger, foot, feet, hair, hand, head, heart,
heel, leg, neck, nose, shoulder, skin, toe, tongue, tooth, teeth, day, hour, minute,
moment, night, time.
VI. IDIOMURI BAZATE PE COMPARAŢII

Idiomuri cu “as...as...”, idiomuri cu “like”
VII. RECAPITULARE
exerciţiile indicate din partea relevantă a bibliografiei obligatorii pe baza cuvintelor cheie
aferente fiecărei întâlniri
XXIII. Modul de evaluare:
XXIV. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:


XXV. Bibliografia opţională:

1. *** Collins Cobuild English Grammar, Collins, London &Glasgow, 1990 - Biblioteca
Facultăţii de Litere Cluj-Napoca..
2. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
3. Long, Thomas Hill (Editorial Dir.), Summers, Della (Managing Editor), Longman
Dictionary of English Idioms, Longman Group Limited, first published in 1979 -

Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Semestrul 6
I. Informații generale despre curs
Titlul disciplinei: Romanul britanic postmodern artele vizuale și media

Codul: LE 32223
Locul de desfășurare: conform planificării de la facultatea de Litere
Programarea în orar a activităților:
II. Informații despre titularul de curs:
Nume, titlu științific: BERCE SANDA, Conferențiar doctor

Informații de contact: sandaberce@yahoo.com
Ore de audiență: 2 ore
III. Descrierea disciplinei: The course is useful to the students with background in
English Modernist and Postmodernist literature and who attended courses in
contemporary British literature.
The course defines: (1) the dynamics of the British novel in the media age;
(2) the changes of its forms of expression and the changes of the
function of literature (aesthetic-cognitive-communicative);
(3) the impact of the visual arts, of media and of the new
communication technologies on the contemporary novel;
(4) the ‘competition’ between the ‘art of writing’ and ‘the new
technologies (the relationship between the imaginary and forms of representation).
The principal aim of the course is the acquisition of interpretative skills for the new
narrative forms and ‘experiments’ in the art of storytelling.
It is an interactive course organized around the discussion of four novels, 2(two) contact
hours per week in 7 weeks.

Surse primare: Ian McEwan, “Atonement”, London: 2001, Jonathan Cape;
G. Swift, “Last Orders” , London: 1997, Picador;
D. Lodge, “Thinks”, London: 2001;
J. Barnes, “England, England”, London: 1998, Picador
Surse secundare:
Shlomith-Rimmon Kenan (2001) Narrative Fiction:Contemporary Poetics,
Routledge
Linda Hutcheon(1988) The Politics of Postmodernism, Routledge
David Morley(2000) Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity,
Routledge
Raymond Barglow(1994) The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information,

Routledge
David Lodge (2002) Consciousness and the Novel, Secker and Warburg, London
Peter Childs(2005) Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970, Palgrave
Macmillan, London
Philip Tew (2004) The Contemporary British Novel, Continuum Publishing, London
Sanda Berce, M.Varga(2002) Intertextuality as a Form of Virtual Reality, “Dacia”,
Cluj-Napoca
V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educațional specific:

- Lecture hand-out, images, bibliography unavailable in the library is provided by the
tutor.
VI. Planificarea, calendarul întîlnirilor și a verificărilor/examinărilor intermediare:
Week 1: Introductory lecture. Bibliography. Tendencies in the contemporary British

novel: the year 2000 and beyond.
Key words: fiction, non-fiction, media friendly writer, permissive society, decolonization,
diaspora, confessional style, relocation, rejuvenation.
Bibliography: Peter Childs (2005) “The Novel Today and Yesterday”, “The Novel Today
and Tomorrow” in Contemporary Novelists-British Fiction since 1970 pp. 1-23, 274-282;
Philip Tew(2004) “Critiquing Contemporary Fiction”, “Contemporary Britishness: Who,
What, Why, When?” in The Contemporary Brtish Novel, pp. 1-28, 28-59.
Week 2: Ethics and the novel; film and the novel (Ian McEwan, “Atonement”);
Key words: restructuring of place, social time, reverse reading, historicity, authentic,
memory, utopic longings.
Bibliography: Philip Tew(2004) “ Spaces and Styles-Urban Identities” in The

Contemporary British Novel, pp 89-118, Scott Lash & John Urry (2002) “Post-industrial
Spaces”, “Time and Memory” in Economies of Signs and Space, Sage Publ., London,
pp.193-220, 223-241; F.Jameson(1992) “ Film:Nostalgia for the Present” in
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Verso, London &New York,
pp.279-297
Week 3: The cultural turn: the scientific revolution ( from the ‘technology age’ to the
‘information age’); from the novel in ‘the age of mechanical reproduction’ to the novel in
‘the age of electronic reproduction’: ‘derealization’: from storytelling (Salman Rushdie:
“Haroun and the Sea of Stories”/1990) to the transformation of the world into images
(Salman Rushdie- “Fury”/2001).
Key words: media age, derealization, migrant(mind), reinventing identity, virtual identity,
virtual history, story-telling, hybridity, fluidity of identity.
Bibliography: David Morley(2000) Home territories: Media, Mobility and Identity,
Routledge, ch.I-III, Christine Brooke-Rose, “Exsul” , Susan Suleiman, “Introduction” in
Susan Suleiman(1998) Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Duke
university Press, Durham &London, pp.9-25; Anshuman A.Modal “The Ground Beneath
Her Feet and Fury: The Re-Invention of Location” in Gurah Abdulrazak(ed.) (2007) The
Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie, pp. 169-183)
Week 4: Pixel-vision and the novel (Graham Swift, “Last Orders”)

Key words: PXL(pixel), pixel-vision, point-of-view, self-identity, self-reflexivity
linear plot, regular graph.
Bibliography: Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan(2001) Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics;

R.Barglow (1994) The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information; Marina Warner(2002)
“Introduction”, “Doubling” in Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, Ways of Telling
the Self, Oxford university Press, pp.1-29, 161-205;
Week 5: The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information (David Lodge, “Thinks…”)
Key words: narrative media, consciousness studies, virtual machine, parallel architecture,
organic harware, historiography, telling stories, autonomous self.
Bibliography: David Lodge(2002) Consciousness and the Novel, R.Barglow(1994) The

Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information; Katherine Hayles( 1990) Chaos Bound:
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, Routledge, London& New
York; D.Head( 2002)” Technology and the New Science”, “Towards the New
Confessional” in Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 (The Cambridge Companion to),
Cambridge University Press, pp.233-240, 240-245
Week 6: Media, mobility and identity (Julian Barnes, “England, England”)

Key words: modernity, social ordering, social space, textual space, heterotopia,
transgression, liminality, carnivalesque cultural space.
Bibliography: Kevin Hetherington(1997) The Badlands of Modernity: Heterotopia and

Social Ordering, Oxford University Press, Oxford &London; Scott lash& John Urry
(2002) “Mobility, Modernity and Place”, “Global Culure and National Culture” in
Economies of Signs and Space, Sage, London, pp.252-277, 305-312; D.Head(2002)
“National Identity. Re-Inventing Englishness” in Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 (The
Cambridge Companion to), pp. 118-124.
Week 7: Final assessment.
VII. Modul de evaluare: Term-end oral examination+ Term class work

Final assessment. Term class work: attendance (10%)+ in- seminar topic
presentation(30%)+ in-course quiz (10%)+ Term paper score(20%)
Attendance: 90% compulsory
It is considered fraud (a) the use of unquoted information in the Term paper(full text or
fragment) and (b) the use of lecture notes, books, printed pages, cell phones in the oral
examination. The score is 1.00.

Semestrul 2
Titlul disciplinei: Semantică formală

Codul: LE32224

laborator

Ore de audienţă:
1. Descrierea disciplinei
2. Required bibliography
-Ştefan Oltean (2003) Lumile posibile în structurile limbajului, Echinox, Cluj-Napoca,
-Enmon Bach (1989) Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics, State University of New
York Press
-Ştefan Oltean (2006) Introducere in semantica referenţială, Presa Universitară Clujană,
Cluj-Napoca
3. Descrierea cursului şi obiective

Cursul de Semantică formală urmăreşte să familiarizeze studenţii cu aparatul logic al
semanticii referenţiale care urmăreşte să descrie formal compoziţionalitatea înţelesurilor
literale [ compositionality of literal meaning] şi să adîncească, prin exemple, exerciţii şi
discuţii noţiunile teoretice introduse.
4. Planificarea/Calendarul întâlnirilor
Curs 1: Calculul predicaţional: constante, variabile, predicaţii, tipuri de predicaţii, teoria

mulţimilor.
Curs 2: Cuantificarea
Curs 3: Sensul şi referinţa (Intensiunea şi extensiunea).
Curs 4: Designatorii rigizi vs. designatorii nonrigizi. Tipurile de propoziţii

Curs 5: Verbe factive/ nonfactive. Interpretarea de-re şi de-dicto.
Curs 6: Modalitatea (epistemică, deontică, ontologică şi circumstanţială)
Curs 7: Indexicalitatea
Examenul se susţine în pre-sesiune şi constă In 2 subiecte practice şi unul teoretic
de cîte 3 puncte fiecare.

Prezenţa la orele de curs este obligatorie in proporţie de 70%. Prezenţa activă redusă la
ore sau prezentarea la ore fără pregătirea corespunzătoare atrage după sine scăderea notei
finale cu până la un punct.

TODEA
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Curs special (Proza feminista britanica)

Codul: LE32224
Programarea în orar a activităţilor: curs saptamanal
CCCV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Lect. dr. Carmen-Veronica Borbely

CCCVI. Descrierea disciplinei:

This course disseminates a topic not previously undertaken in our academic institution,
drawing awareness to contemporary feminist attempts – both theoretical and fictional – to
redefine constructions of the subject through its embodied dimensions. The course serves
both as a survey of various models of embodied subjectivity – ranging from the
antagonistic dialectics of Cartesian mind v. body dualisms, to the collapse of such
dichotomies in the ‘post-human,’ liminal utopia of the cyborg - and as an application of
such theoretical models or viewpoints to the literary (re)presentation and (re)production
of bodies in contemporary feminist fiction. Though fundamentally informed by a feminist
conceptual and analytical framework, the course fosters an interdisciplinary deployment of
theoretical instruments and perspectives, from phenomenological studies of embodiment,
anthropological inquiries into the constitution of individual/communal body boundaries, or
psychoanalytical constructs of sexual difference, to visual media or cybercultural studies of
corporeality.
COURSE AIMS
The course aims:

5. to familiarise the students with key concepts and major theories on embodiment
(such as Bakhtin on the grotesque, or Foucault on bodily discipline), with
particular emphasis on a substantial range of feminist theoretical and cultural
accounts of the centrality of the body to understandings of the self and identity.
6. to develop the students’ critical understanding of the various models of embodied
subjectivity and of sexual difference, whether they pertain to a psychoanalytical, a
philosophical, or a poststructuralist perspective.
7. Being targeted primarily at students of English literature, the course aims to raise
their awareness of the prominence of the gender issues under discussion and to
interrogate the ways in which the body and its sex/gender correlative are
constru(ct)ed in a set core of novels by contemporary feminist writers (e.g.
Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman, Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body,
etc.)
8. to offer the students a well-informed theoretical and methodological background
to the issue of gendered embodiment, not only in so far as the cultural, literary
and philosophical ramifications of this topic are concerned, but also regarding the
extension of such embodied constructions of identity in society at large, with a
view to highlighting the social and political consequences of these different
constructions.
COURSE OUTLINE & READING BY TOPIC
SESSION 1: SUBJECTIVITY AND EMBODIMENT

Embodiment and the construction of the liberal humanist subject: a
historical overview. MONISTIC PARADIGMS OF
DISEMBODIED SUBJECTIVITY V. DYNAMIC MAPPINGS OF
THE INTERFACES, THRESHOLDS AND BORDERLINES
CONNECTING MIND AND BODY. BODY IMAGE:
‘EMBODIED SUBJECTIVITY’ OR ‘PSYCHICAL
CORPOREALITY.’
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Julia Kristeva, ‘Subject and Body’ in Welton, Donn (ed) (1999) The Body Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, pp. 317-324
 Elizabeth Grosz, ‘Body Images. Neurophysiology and Corporeal Mappings’ in
Volatile Bodies. Towards a Corporeal Feminism Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press (1994), pp. 62-85
Secondary:
 Jacques Lacan, in Welton, Donn (ed) (1999) The Body Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, pp. 213-230 (Advanced)
 Fiona Carson, ‘Feminism and the Body’ in Gamble, Sarah (2001) The Routledge
Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism London: Routledge, pp. 117-128
(Introductory)
 Teresa Brennan, ‘Psychoanalytic feminism’ in Jaggar, Allison M. & Iris Marion
Young (eds) (1998) A Companion to Feminist Philosophy Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 272-
279 (Introductory)
 Michelle M. Moody Adams, ‘Self/Other’ in Jaggar, Allison M. & Iris Marion
Young (eds) (1998) A Companion to Feminist Philosophy Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 255-
262 (Supplementary)
SESSION 2: SEXUAL DIFFERENCE

REPRODUCING THE NATURE-CULTURE DIVIDE: THE SEX
V. GENDER DISTINCTION. THE MECHANICS OF SOLIDS V.
THE ‘METAPHORICS OF FLUIDS.’ CONSTRUCTIONS OF
GENDERED/EMBODIED IDENTITY: TRANSGRESSING V.
CONTAINING BODY BOUNDARIES. MODELS OF SEXUAL
DIFFERENCE.
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Thomas Laqueur, ‘Of Language and the Flesh’ pp. 1-19); 'New Science, One
Flesh,' (pp. 70-81); ‘Discovery of the Sexes’ (pp. 149-165) in Making Sex: Body and
Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1990)
 Ortner, Sherry B, ‘Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?’ , Feminist Studies,
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn 1972), pp. 5-31.
 Luce Irigaray, ‘This Sex Which Is Not One’ in Warhol, Robyn R. & Diane Price
Herndl (eds) (1997), pp. 363-369
Secondary:
 Linda Nicholson, ‘Gender’ in Jaggar, Allison M. & Iris Marion Young (eds)
(1998) A Companion to Feminist Philosophy Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 289-298
(Introductory)
 Elizabeth Grosz, ‘Sexual difference’ in Volatile Bodies. Towards a Corporeal
Feminism Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (1994), pp.187-210
(Advanced)
 Teresa de Lauretis, ‘The Technology of Gender’ in Technologies of Gender.
Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction, London: McMillan, 1987, pp. 1-21
 Cixous, Hélène, ‘The Newly Born Woman’, in The Hélène Cixous Reader, (ed. By
Susan Sellers), London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 35-46
(Optional)
 Luce Irigaray, ‘Sexual Difference’ in Whitford, Margaret (ed) The Irigaray
Reader Oxford: Blackwell, 1991, pp. 165-177
(Optional)
 Moira Gatens, ‘ Power, Bodies, and Difference’ in Price, Janet (ed) (1988)
Feminist Theory and the Body. A Reader Edinburgh University Press, pp. 227-234
(Supplementary)
SESSION 3: GENDER DYNAMICS - GAZING AT WOMEN'S BODIES
Spectatorship and gendered models of looking. Scopophilia and
the Freudian idea of fetish. Lacan’s mirror stage and identification
via alienation. The masculinisation of the spectator position (the
dynamics of looking) v. static female ‘to-be-looked-at-ness.’
Calendar Girls. Virgin Pictures, 2003
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Jacques Lacan, ‘The Mirror Stage as a Formative of the Function of the I as
revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience’ in Ecrits (1977) W.W. Norton & Company
 Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ in Warhol, Robyn R. &
Diane Price Herndl (eds) (1997), pp. 438-448
Secondary:
 Mary Ann Doane, ‘Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator’ in
Jones, Amelia (ed) (2003) Feminism and the Visual Culture Reader London: Routledge,
pp. 60-71 (Introductory)
 Luce Irigaray, ‘Another ‘Cause’ – Castration’ (from Speculum and the Other
Woman) in Warhol, Robyn R. & Diane Price Herndl (eds) (1997), pp. 430-437
(Advanced)
 Londa Schiebinger, ‘Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female
Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy’ in Laqueur, Thomas and Catherine Gallagher
(eds) (1987) The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth
Century Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 42-81
(Supplementary)
SESSION 4: TECHNOLOGISING THE BODY: DISCIPLINE &

BIOPOWER
Foucault’s critique of unified subject: the flattening out of the
subject to ‘docile body.’ Lived bodily experience and the cultural
meanings inscribed on the body. The discursive constitution of
bodies within normalising disciplinary matrices of power.
Self/Other: the alterity of female corpor(e)ality.
Literary texts:
 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”
Available at:
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman/The_Yellow_Wallpap
er/The_Yellow_Wallpaper_p1.html
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Michel Foucault, ‘The Body of the Condemned’ (pp. 3-15; 22-31); ‘Docile Bodies
(pp. 135-155); ‘Panopticism’ (pp. 195-203) in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the
Prison, New York: Vintage Books, 1975
 Michel Foucault, ‘Part Four: The Deployment of Sexuality—I Objective’ in The
History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, (transl. Robert Hurley), New York:
Vintage Books (1978), pp. 81-92
 Susan Bordo, ‘The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity’ in Alison M Jaggar
& Susan Bordo, Gender/Body/Knowledge New Brunswick & London: Rutgers University
Press, 1986, pp 13-33
Secondary:
 Alphonso Lingis, ‘The Subjectification of the Body’ in Welton, Donn (ed.) (1999)
The Body, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 286-306
(Introductory)
 Shildrick, Margrit, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries. Feminism, postmodernism and
(Bio)Ethics, London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 181-210 (Advanced)
 Judith Butler, ‘Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions’ in The Journal of
Philosophy, 86 (November 1989), pp. 601-607
(Supplementary)
SESSION 5: FROM MOLAR IDENTITY TO MOLECULAR

INTENSITIES: ‘BECOMING-WOMAN’ AND THE BODY
POLITIC
Rhizomatic multiplicities and the de-territorialisation of desire.
The Body Politic trope. Types of socius: molar/massifying v.
molecular/minority structurations of identity. Deleuzian
schizoanalysis and the hetero(u)topian Body without Organs.
Literary text: A. S. Byatt: ‘Morpho-Eugenia’ in Angels and Insects (1994)
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Deleuze, Gilles, ‘1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity’ (pp. 229-256); ‘1730:

Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible...’ (pp. 256-309) in A
Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Transl. & foreword by Brian
Massumi) Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press (2004 edition)
(Read at least excerpts from the chapters selected here)
 Elizabeth Grosz, ‘Intensities and Flows’ in Volatile Bodies. Towards a Corporeal
Feminism Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (1994), pp. 160-186
Secondary:
 Rosi Braidotti, ‘Zigzagging through Deleuze and Feminism’ in Metamorphoses.
Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2002, pp. 65-116
(Introductory)
 Deleuze, Gilles, ‘The Body without Organs’ in Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism and
Schizophrenia (Transl. by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem & Helen R. Lane) New York:
Continuum (2004 edition), pp. 9-15
(Advanced)
 Michel Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’ in Diacritics, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1986)
(Supplementary)
SESSION 6: FROM GROTESQUE TO CIVILIZED BODIES

Bakhtinian schemas: the grotesque female body with its befuddling
of boundaries between inside and outside, v. classical constructions
of the self-contained male body. Uncanny corporeality and the
Zizekian/Lacanian ‘Real’. The feminist re-valorising of the
‘cavernous’ and ‘visceral’, yet ‘secreting’ and ‘protruding’ female
anatomy in terms of a subversive and transformative
destabilisation of the social and cultural status quo.
Literary text: Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969)
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Mikhail Bakhtin (transl. Helene Iswolsky), 'The Grotesque Image of the Body and
Its Sources,' in Rabelais and his World, Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1968, pp. 315-325
 Mary Russo, ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-15); ‘Female Grotesques. Carnival and Theory’
(pp. 53-73) in The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity New York: Routledge,
1994
Secondary:
 Rosemarie Garland Thomson, ‘The Spectacle of the Extraordinary Body’ in

Extraordinary Bodies New York: Columbia University Press (1997), pp. 55-62
(Introductory)
 Peter Stallybrass & Allon White, ‘Introduction’ in The Politics and Poetics of
Transgression London: Methuen (1986), pp. 1-26 (Introductory)
 Elizabeth Grosz, “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit’ in Thomson,
Rosemarie Garland (ed) (1996) Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
New York University Press, pp. 55-68
(Advanced)
 Slavoj Žižek, ‘Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing’ in E. Wright & E. Wright (eds)
(1999) The Žižek Reader Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 148-173
(Supplementary)
SESSION 7: EXTRAORDINARY BODIES

Abject liminality and the ‘monstrous-feminine.’ Teratological
taxonomies, ‘deviant’ abnormality, an(d)thropomorphic norms.
Liminality: the fluid transgression of the boundaries between
inside and outside, self and other.
Literary text: Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984)
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Julia Kristeva, ‘Approaching Abjection’ in The Powers of Horror. An Essay on

Abjection New York: Columbia University Press (1982), pp. 1-31
 Barbara Creed, ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-7); ‘Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection’ (pp. 8-
15); ‘The Medusa’s Gaze’ (pp. 151-166) in The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism,
Psychoanalysis New York: Routledge (1993)
 Rosi Braidotti, ‘Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and
Embodied Differences’ in Price, Janet (ed) (1988) Feminist Theory and the Body. A
Reader Edinburgh University Press, pp. 290-301
Secondary:
 Rosi Braidotti, ‘Mothers, Monsters, and Machines’ in Conboy, Katie, Nadia

Medina & Sarah Stanbury (eds) (1997) Writing on the Body Columbia University Press,
pp. 59-79 (Supplementary)
 Mary Douglas, ‘External Boundaries’ in Purity and Danger. An Analysis of the
Concepts of Pollution and Taboo London: Routledge (1966), pp. 115-127
(Optional)
 Marina Warner, ‘Monstrous Mothers: Women over the Top’ in Managing
Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time. London: Vintage, 1994, pp. 1-16
(Introductory)
 Marina Warner, ‘Mutating’ in Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of
Telling the Self Oxford University Press (2002), pp. 29-74
(Supplementary)
SESSION 8: POST(TRANS)SEXUAL BODIES THAT MATTER
Politics of identity v. the identity of politics. The uses of the erotic and the erotics of
power. Discursive practices of gender performativity. Judith Butler’s notion of ‘drag’ as a
subversion of dichotomic constraints.
Literary text: Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (1989)
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Judith Butler, ‘Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversion’ & ‘From Interiority

to Gender Perfomatives in Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity New
York & London: Routledge (1990), pp. 163-180
 Judith Butler, ‘Introduction’ in Bodies That Matter. On the Discursive Limits of
“Sex” New York & London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 1-23
 Sandy Stone, ‘A Posttranssexual Manifesto’ in Jones, Amelia (ed) (2003)
Feminism and the Visual Culture Reader London: Routledge, pp. 187-191
Secondary:
 Monique Wittig, ‘The Straight Mind’ in Jones, Amelia (ed) (2003) Feminism and
the Visual Culture Reader London: Routledge, pp.130-135
(Supplementary)
 Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity, Duke University Press, 1998, pp. 1-19
(Advanced)
 Marjorie Garber, ‘Dress Codes, or the Theatricality of Difference’ in The
Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance (ed. By Lizbeth Goodman), London and
New York: Routledge, 1998, pp. 176-181
(Optional)
SESSION 9: (DE)NATURALISED IDENTITIES: BODY MODIFICATION

Modifying the Body: corporeal fragmentation and reconstitution.
Uncoupling nature and culture: feminism and the parodic re-
presentation of female bodies. Writing on the body: natural
inscriptions and cultural givens. Body art.
CCCVII. Case study: Orlan http://www.orlan.net/
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Susan Bordo, ‘Reading the Slender Body’ in Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller,
Sally Shuttleworth (eds) Body/politics. Women and the Discourses of Science New York
& London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 83-111
 Anne Balsamo, 'On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological
Production of the Gendered Body,' in Technologies of the Gendered Body. Reading
Cyborg Women. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 56-79.
 Kathy Davis, '"My Body is My Art:" Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?' in
Price, Janet (ed) (1988) Feminist Theory and the Body. A Reader Edinburgh University
Press, pp. 454-465.
Secondary:
 Christine Battersby, ‘Her Body/ Her Boundaries’ in Price, Janet (ed) (1988)
Feminist Theory and the Body. A Reader Edinburgh University Press, pp. 341-358
(Advanced)
 Susan Bordo, ‘Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance’
in Unbearable Weight. Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of
California Press (1993), pp. 277-300
(Supplementary)
SESSION 10: TOWARDS ‘POSTHUMAN’ EMBODIMENT

Models of posthuman embodiment. Denaturalising of the
relationship between the body and cultural identity. Cyborg politics
and collapse of dichotomies structuring the Western self: hybridity
and the pollution of body boundaries.
Literary text: Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
Bibliography:
Compulsory:
 Donna Haraway, 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist
Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,' in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The
Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge (1991), pp. 149-181
 Anne Balsamo, ‘Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in
Contemporary Culture’ in Price, Janet (ed) (1988) Feminist Theory and the Body. A
Reader Edinburgh University Press, pp. 278-299
 Rosi Braidotti, ‘Cyber-teratologies’ in Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist
Theory of Becoming. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2002, pp. 172-211
Secondary:
 Paula Rabinowitz, ‘Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism Be
Posthuman?’ in Halberstam, Judith & Ira Livingston (eds.) (1995) Posthuman Bodies,
Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 97-112 (Introductory)
 N. Katherine Hayles, ‘Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers’ in How We
Became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics Chicago &
London: The University of Chicago Press (1999), pp. 25-49
(Advanced)
 Don Ihde, ‘Bodies, Virtual Bodies, and Technology’ in Welton, Donn (ed.) (1998)
Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 349-357
(Optional)
 Claudia Springer, ‘Digital Race’ in Bell, David & Barbara Kennedy (2000) The
Cybercultures Reader London & New York: Routledge, pp. 337-349
(Optional)
CCCVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
A. S. Byatt: ‘Morpho-Eugenia’ in Angels and Insects (1994)
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969)
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984)
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (1989)
Case study: Orlan http://www.orlan.net/
Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
GUIDE TO THE READING MATERIAL:

The Reader, as you will notice, includes COMPULSORY as well as SECONDARY
reading material (Introductory, for students with no or little prior knowledge of the topic
discussed; Advanced, for students who have studied the topic before; Supplementary and
Optional, for students who need to delve further into one or another specific topic). You
do NOT have to read the Secondary texts. However, you may choose to do so, since they
give you relevant information and background in the theoretical area for writing your
academic essays. For those students who feel they need further investigation of particular
topics, supplementary secondary bibliography (criticism and theory) can be made
available to them on request.
The Reader is divided into sections that correspond to the Course Outline. These sections
are listed and detailed above.
CCCIX. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:
and discussion, with brief individual or collaborative student reports (oral and written)
charting the theoretical and fictional readings assigned. All required reading should be
completed before class, with the possibility of covering supplementary reading material
for the written reports on theories of embodiment, should the students’ interests require
this.
Each lecture will have an accompanying handout, signposting the lecture’s major
theoretical points and outlining the structure of each session (the amount of time allotted
for each activity, such as teacher input, student presentation, debate, etc).
CCCX. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
[Precizarea exactă a tematicilor abordate în cadrul fiecărei întâlniri în parte, cu precizarea
datei la care acestea sunt planificate şi menţionarea, la fiecare curs / seminar / lucrare /
verificare intermediară în parte, a:
- conceptelor de bază sau a cuvintelor cheie,
- partea relevantă din bibliografia obligatorie, cu precizarea capitolelor sau a
paginilor aferente
- obligaţiile studenţilor pentru întâlnirea respectivă (lecturi, teme, lucrări)].
CCCXI. Modul de evaluare:

CLASS PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE: 10%.
LEADING CLASS DISCUSSION: 40%. Students may sign up individually or in pairs to

give presentations of a particular topic and to initiate discussion for one of the sessions.
questions. Individual or group discussions in class – to which students are strongly
encouraged to contribute also with personal insights into the issue of embodiment, seen
from the visual, media, political or societal vantage points – will not only help
consolidate the theoretical grounds of the topics under debate, but will also foster an
interdisciplinary exchange of ideas to be reinforced in the analysis of the novels proper.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS:
1. 20% MID-TERM (REVIEW):
The first will consist in a review (to be handed in after the spring break). This will
comprise a brief (one- or two-page long) review/ commentary/ response on ANY article
or essay that is included in the Reader. You may comment on the relevance of this study
to the topic it relates to, trying to consider it in the context of your own opinion,
experience, horizon of expectations, etc. It may be a very personal piece or a scholarly,
objective analysis: your manner of approach is entirely up to you. This will enable both
teacher and students to diagnose the efficacy level of class discussion, as well as identify
areas where intensive or extensive clarification might be needed.
2. 30% END-OF-TERM QUIZZ/ASSIGNMENT
EITHER
a. An end-of-term home assignment - a more comprehensive research paper (6-10 pages)
on a topic of your choice in connection with our readings (typed or word-processed with
standard double-spacing). This final home assignment will have to apply the theoretical
insight gathered during our sessions to one of the fictional/filmic texts analysed.
Suggested date for handing in your essays: last week in the semester.
OR
b. An open-book (i.e. open-Reader) quiz asking you to comment on short excerpts, relate
them to the course subject, etc.
GRADING:
PARTICIPATION TO CLASS DISCUSSIONS: 40%.
MID-TERM (REVIEW): 20%
END-OF-TERM QUIZZ/ASSIGNMENT: 30%.
The final grades for this course will be posted within one week of the final lecture this
semester.
CCCXII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Plagiarism wil incur failure of the course.
CCCXIII. Bibliografia opţională:

All the optional reading materials are included in the Reader prepared by the teacher (30
copies at the English Dept Library)
Decan, Sef de catedra,

Titular curs,
Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. dr.
Carmen Borbely
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai din Cluj Napoca
Catedra de Limba si Literatura Engleza
I. Informatii generale:
Titlul disciplinei: Traduceri specializate,

Cod: LE 32225
Numar credite: 3
Locul de desfasurare: Facultatea de Litere, Catedra de Limba si Literatura Engleza
Programarea in orar a activitatilor: conform programului stabilit
II. Informatii despre titularul cursului:
Nume, titlu stiintific: Ecaterina Popa, prof. univ. dr

Informatii de contact: email: epopa42@yahoo.com, telefon: 0264534898
Ore de audienta: 2
Cursul de Traduceri Specializate vizeaza in primul rand constientizarea diferentei dintre

traducerea literara si traducerea textelor de specialitate pe domenii. Se vor aborda
principii d emetode de traducere, aspectele relatiei dintre traducere si discurs si in
principal analiza textuala in procesul de traducere. Cursul are si o componenta practica
prin traduceri effectuate de studenti.
Obiective:
- familiarizarea studentilor cu abordarile si principiile de traducere
- constientizarea deprinderilor necesare in traducere
- sublinierea rolului analizei intratextuale si extratextuale in traducere
Competente:
- dezvoltarea deprinderii de analiza a textului la nivel lexical, grammatical si

discursive
- capacitatea de a lucra cu dictionarul de termeni de specialitate
- redarea continutului textului in limba tinta in terminologia adecvata
8. Baker, Mona (1982), In Other Words, Routledge.

9. Cozma, Mihaela (2006), Translating Legal- Administrative Discourse, Ed.
Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara.
10. Greere, Anca Luminita, (2003), Translating for Business Purposes – A Functional
Approach, Editura Dacia, Cluj Napoca.
11. Newmark, Peter (1988), A Textbook on Translation, Prentice Hall, New York,
London.
Nota: Bibliografia este accesibila la biblioteca Facultatii de Litere si Biblioteca

Centrului British Council
V. Materiale auxiliare xeroxate din surse autentice asigurate de cadrul

didactic.
VI. Planificarea intalnirilor:
2. Principles of Translating ESP Texts

- translations methods
- procedures in translations
Bibliogragie: Greere (pp. 23-43)
Newmark (pp. 45-52) (pp.81-91)
2-3. Translation and Discourse
- cohesion and cohesive devices
- coherence
- information structures
Bibliografie: Baker (pp. 121-140), (180-202), (217-222)
Newmark (pp. 54-66)
4.Translation and Genre

- genre analysis
- comparative analysis of English and Romanian texts
Bibliografie: Cozma (pp. 49-65)
Greere (pp. 231-236)
12. Textual Analysis

- grammatical structures – equivalence and patterning
Cozma (pp. 119-141)
13. Textual Analysis

- lexico- semantic aspects
- specialized terminology
Newmark (pp. 151-161)
14. Translating Authentic Texts based on medical, political, economic and legal
articles.
VII. Evaluarea se face pe baza frecventei si participarii active la curs 40%,
examen scris 60%.
VIII. Prezenta la ore este obligatorie 80%. Plagiatul si frauda se penalizeaza cu
nota 1 (unu) conform regulamentului.
Bassnett- McGuire, S. (1980) Translation Studies, Methuen, London and New York.
Swales,J. M. (1990) Genre Analysis, Cambridge University Press.
DECAN: SEF CATEDRA: TITULAR:

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Prof. dr. Ecaterina
Popa
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Literatura engleza medievala

Codul: LE32225
CCCXIV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Conf. dr. Lucian Dunareanu

Ore de audienţă:
CCCXV. Descrierea disciplinei:
Lipseşte silabusul
Semestrul I
Titlul disciplinei: Fonetica si fonologie (curs optional)

Codul: LE32226
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Lector dr. Mircea Craciun

Informaţii de contact: mirceamrc@yahoo.com

Acest curs reprezinta o introducere in studiul lingvisticii, sub forma unei prime etape in
abordarea teoretica a limbii engleze. Fonetica este esentiala pentru celelalte discipline
lingvistice, deoarece sunetele reprezinta substratul material pentru limba. Abordarea este
una sincronica. Cursul debuteaza prin a oferi o perspectiva asupra scopului foneticii,
sugerand o posibila clasificare a ramurilor ei. Sunt discutate conceptele cheie necesare
pentru studierea sunetelor. Elemente de dialectologie, precum si relatia dintre limba scrisa
si cea vorbita sunt incorporate ca parti inerente ale sistemului fonic al limbii. Partea cea
mai extensiva a cursului este dedicata descrierii sunetelor limbii engleze; sunt discutate
aici probleme referitoare la diferentele dintre vocale si consoane, dintre engleza britanica
si cea americana, iar fonemele sunt analizate in relatie cu reprezentarile lor ortografice,
facandu-se recurs la comparatii cu sistemul fonologic al limbii romane. Ultima parte a
cursului include consideratii referitoare la fonemele suprasegmentale, precum si la
procesele de asimilatie si principiile accentului in cuvant si propozitie. Cursul ofera, de
asemenea, o lista extinsa de forme tari si slabe si o descriere si ilustrare a structurilor
intonationale de baza ale limbii engleze.
The course serves both as an introduction to the study of linguistics and as a first stage in
the theoretical approach to the English language. Phonetics is proved to be essential for
the other branches of linguistics, to the extent the sounds provide the material basis in the
use of the language. The approach is a synchronic one. The course opens with a general
survey of the scope of phonetics and suggests a possible branching of the field. Various
concepts required for the study of sounds are outlined. Elements of dialectology as well
as basic patterns in the relation spelling-pronunciation are incorporated as inherent parts
of the sound system. The bulk of the course is dedicated to the description of English
sounds. Several points of view referring to such problems as vowels vs. consonants,
monophthongs vs. diphthongs and triphthongs, British English vs. American English are
discussed. The English phonemes are considered in close relation with their spelling
peculiarities and comparisons with the Romanian phonological system are frequently
used. The last part of the course comprises considerations on the suprasegmental
phonemes as well as a separate section dedicated to the types of assimilative processes.
The main types of similitude and contextual assimilation, the principles of word stress
and sentence stress are described on the basis of parallels between English and
Romanian. The course also offers a comprehensive list of strong and weak forms as well
as the basic intonational patterns and several samples of tonemic description.

Gimson, A.C. (1989), An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, London: Edward
Arnold.
Hyman, L.M. (1975), Phonology: Theory and Analysis, New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston.
Jones, D. (1975), An Outline of English Phonetics. 9th edition, Cambridge: CUP.
Makarenko, T. (1998), Contemporary English Phonetics, Cluj: Echinox, Colectia
Studium
Wells, J.C. (1982), Accents of English (3 vols. and cassette), Cambridge: CUP

Material audio: casete, CD-ROM

intermediare:
1. Introduction: the science of Phonetics. Linguistics and Phonetics. Branches of

phonetics. The theory of the phoneme: types of allophones.
Key Concepts: linguistics, phonetics, phonology, phoneme, allophone, minimal
pair, distinctive opposition
2. Relationships between Sounds and Phonemes: Free variation and
complementary distribution.
Key Concepts: free variation, complementary distribution, positional allophones
3. Suprasegmental Phonemes: Stress, juncture, intonation.
Key Concepts: suprasegmentals, stress, juncture, intonation
4. Types of Pronunciation: elements of dialectology. British English vs. American
English.
Key Concepts: accent, dialect, standard, variation, rhotic/non-rhotic, linking [r],
intrusive [r]
5. Spelling and Pronunciation: Principles of English orthography. Graphical Rules.
Types of syllables. Types of transcription.
Key Concepts: spelling, pronunciation, etymological principle, morphological
principle, phonetic principle, phonetic transcription, phonemic transcription,
open syllable, closed syllable
6. The Organs of Speech. Classification of organs of speech into active and
passive organs. The functions of the organs of speech.
Key Concepts: vocal chords, glottis, epiglottis, uvula, velum, palate, resonance
chambers, nasal sound, oral sound
7. The English Vowel System I: vowels vs. consonants (principles of division). The
system of cardinal vowels. The English vowels – articulatory features.
Representations. The phonemic status of the “schwa” sound and its main
allophones.
Key Concepts: vowel, consonant, cardinal vowel, front vowel, central vowel,
back vowel, open vowel, close vowel, distribution, vowel quality, vowel quantity,
schwa, vowel reduction
8. The English Vowel System II: The English diphthongs and triphthongs.
Key Concepts: diphthong, triphthong, nucleus, glide, monophonemic,
biphonemic
9. The English Consonant System I: Classification of English consonants. The
noises: the plosive consonants. Aspiration. The main positional allophones of the
English plosives.
Key Concepts: noise, sonant, plosive, fricative, affricate, aspiration, plosionless
plosive
10. The English Consonant System II: The fricative and affricate consonants. The
sonants: nasal and oral sonants. The semivowels and their phonemic status.
Key Concepts: fricative, affricate, sonant, nasal, oral, semivowel, gliding sound
11. Sounds in Connected Speech I: Juncture. The phonetic and phonological
functions of juncture.
Key Concepts: juncture, open juncture, close juncture, interpenetration of
articulatory stages
12. Sounds in Connected Speech II: Types of Assimilative Processes. Similitude.
Historical assimilation. Contextual assimilation.
Key Concepts: assimilation, similitude/partial assimilation, contextual
assimilation/assimilation proper, historical assimilation
13. Sounds in Connected Speech III: The Accentual Structure of English Words and
Sentences. Word stress. Stress placement. Stress patterns. Sentence stress:
principles and functions. Strong and weak forms.
Key Concepts: stress, word stress, sentence stress, dynamic principle, musical
principle, quantitative principle, qualitative principle, strong forms, weak forms
14. Sounds in Connected Speech IV: The Intonational Patterns of English.
Functions of English intonation.
Key Concepts: intonation, sense group, tone, pitch

Examen final (scris + oral).
Nota finala se compune din nota obtinuta la acest curs si nota de la cursul practic aferent.

Prezenta la cursuri nu este obligatorie; prezenta la seminar este obligatorie in procent de
70 % si conditioneaza participarea la examenul final.
In caz de frauda, nu exista suficiente metode pentru aplicarea stricta a regulamentului

(exmatriculare), ceea ce duce la compromisuri nedorite.
Studentii sunt rugati sa-si vada lucrarile in ziua afisarii rezultatelor, inainte de examenul
oral.

Abercrombie, D. (1967), Elements of General Phonetics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.
Algeo, J. and Pyles, Th. (1966), Problems in the Origins and Development of the
English Language, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
Bradford, B. (1994), Intonation in Context. Intonation Practice for Upper-
Intermediate and Advanced Learners of English (Teacher's Book, Student's Book
and cassette), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Catford, J.C. (1977), Fundamental Problems in Phonetics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.
De Saussure, F. (1995), Cours de linguistique génerale, Éditions Payot & Rivages.
Heilman, A. W. (1968), Phonics in Proper Perspective. Second Edition, Columbus,
Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company.
Hughes, A. and Trudgill, P. (1987), English Accents and Dialects, London: Edward
Arnold.
Jones, D. (1975), An Outline of English Phonetics. 9th edition, Cambridge: CUP.
Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lector dr. Mircea Craciun
Anul universitar 2009 -2010
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Gen si identitate în cultura americana

Codul: LE 32226
CCCXVI. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Michaela Mudure, conferentiar doctor in filologie

Ore de consultatii: marti orele 11-12
CCCXVII. Descrierea disciplinei:
Cursul analizează evolutia structurilor de gen şi identitare în cultura si societatea

americana. Se va urmari evolutia miscarilor de emancipare a femeii (cele trei valuri ale
miscarii de femei din SUA), evolutia masculinitatii in cultura si societatea americana
(aparitia men’s studies), intersectia dintre gen si etnicitate in cultura si societatea
americana, miscarea de emancipare a minoritatilor sexuale in SUA.Cursul va fi o
combinaţie de prelegeri şi analize aplicate pe text, dezbateri de tip seminar. Metode
utilizate : expunere, dialog, problematizare, studiul de caz identitar/literar, exercitiul
comparativ. Competente in formare : capacitatea de interpretare si analiza a structurilor
de gen, capacitatea de diferentiere intre gen si sexualitate, competente interpretative
potrivit noilor grile interpretative din domeniul studiilor culturale, analizei de text (close
reading), studiului mentalitatilor, formarea unei atitudini de toleranta si intelegere pentru
alteritate.
CCCXVIII. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Miriam Schneir, Historical Feminism, New York, Vintage, 1996

History of Women’s Suffrage, Salem, Ayer, 1969.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics, New York, Harper, 1970.
John Steinbeck, The Chrisanthemums, New York, Picador, 2000.
Bharati Mukharjee, A Wife’s Story, New York, Vintage, 2001.
Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables, New York, Vintage, 2001.
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever, New York, Bantam, 1989.
Kate Chopin, Desiree’s Baby, New York, Vintage, 2001.
Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, New York, Bantam,
1968.
Cărţile se pot gasi la BCU, Biblioteca de Studii Americane, Biblioteca Facultatii de

Litere.
Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Film video.
CCCXIX. Planificarea:
Curs 1
Gender and Sex

Cuvinte cheie: gender, sex, sexuality, gender script, naturalization of gender.
Activitatea studentilor: identificarea structurilor de gen pe care se bazeaza mesajul
reclamelor americane (pe baza de exemple). Evidentierea distinctiei dintre gen si sex în
ultimul film american vazut de studenti.
Curs 2
Gender and Performance. The Historicity of Gender.
Cuvinte cheie: gender, performance, gender script.
Activitatea studentilor: exercitiu comparativ: gender structures in the USA and Romania.
Bibliografie optionala: Judith Butler – Gender Trouble.
Curs 3
The first wave feminism
Cuvinte cheie: universal suffrage, Abigail Adams, Sarah, Grimke. Margaret Fuller, Cariie
Chapman.
Bibliografie obligatorie: History of Women’s Suffrage, Salem, Ayer, 1969.
Activitatea studentilor : exercitiu comparativ : lupta pentru votul universal al femeilor
din Romania si SUA.
Curs 5
Gender and Race in the first wave of American Feminism
Cuvinte cheie : gender, ethnicity, race, Sojourner Truth.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia
Mott.
Bibliografie obligatorie: Miriam Schneir, Historical Feminism, New York, Vintage, 1996
Activitatea studentilor : exercitiu comparativ : femeia de culoare (Roma vs. African-
American) în Romania si SUA
Curs 4
Second Wave Feminism
Cuvinte cheie : gender, race, civil right movement, Stone Wall Inn Riots
Bibliografie obligatorie : Miriam Schneir, Historical Feminism, New York, Vintage, 1996
Activitatea studentilor : comparative exercise : abortion laws in Romania and the USA
Curs 5
Third Wave Feminism. Gender and Race
Cuvinte cheie : Womanism, feminist consciousness, Chicana feminism
Activitatea studentilor : exerciţiu comparativ Romanian and American contemporary
feminism
Bibliografie optionala : Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua,This Bridge Called My
Back, San Antonia, Puerta del Sol Publishing House, 1989.
Curs 6
Men in Feminism. Men’s movements.
Cuvinte cheie : masculinity, mythopoetic men, pro-feminist men, Promise Keepers.
Activitatea studentilor : dezbatere si studiu de caz : tipuri de masculinitate, gender roles.
Case study : Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
Bibliografie optionala : ***, Men in Feminism, Los Angeles, University of California
Press, 2000.
Curs 7
Only two genders ?
Cuvinte cheie: berdache, transexual, bisexual, gay and lesbian culture
Activitatea studenţilor : text interpretation The Two by Gloria Naylor.
Bibliografie optionala : Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader.
CCCXX. Modul de evaluare:

Examen oral şi scris. Nota finala : 50% parcurgerea bibliografiei +informatie+ capacitate
de mînuire a informatiei, 30% participare la discutii, 20% corectitudinea limbii engleze si
a limbajului de specialitate.
CCCXXI. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Studentii pot sa işi vada lucrarile imediat dupa afisarea notelor.
CCCXXII. Bibliografia opţională:
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, New York, Routledge, 2000.

Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua,This Bridge Called My Back, San Antonia, Puerta
del Sol Publishing House, 1989.
***, Men in Feminism, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2000.
David Halperin, Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader, New York, Routledge, 2002.
Ellen Moers, Literary Women, New York, Routledge, 2005.
Tillie Olsen, Silernce, Picador, New York, 2000.

Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Prgmatica lingvistica (curs optional)

Codul: LE 32227
CCCXXIII. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator
Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Prof. dr. Stefan Oltean

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail, eventual nr. de telefon): stoltean@lett.ubbcluj.ro
Ore de audienţă:
SYLLABUS
Universitat
Babeş-Bolyai
ea
Facultatea LITERE
Specializare
Engleză A
a
I.
Denumire disciplină Pragmatică lingvistică Categoria Curs opţional
II.
Structură disciplină (Nr. ore
săptămânal)
Semestrul Curs Seminar Lucrări Proiect
2 1
III.
Statut disciplină Obligatorie Opţională Facultativă
(se marchează cu X) X
IV.
Titular disciplină
Proie
Curs Seminar Lucrări
ct
Numele şi prenumele Stefan Oltean
Instituţia Universitatea Universitatea Universitatea
Babeş-
Babeş-Bolyai Babeş-Bolyai
Bolyai
Catedră/ Departament Limbă şi literatură Limbă şi literatură
engleză engleză
Titlul ştiinţific doctor doctor
Gradul didactic profesor profesor
Încadrarea (norma de norma de baza norma de baza
bază/asociat)
V.
Obiectivele disciplinei
- Examinarea relevanţei pragmaticii pentru studiul limbii
- Descrierea metodologiei pragmaticii lingvistice; relaţiile ei sintaxa şi semantica
- Aplicarea pragmaticii la analiza unor tipuri de comunicare
- Formarea de competenţe noi în descrierea comunicării lingvistice
VI.
Conţinutul disciplinei Nr. ore/
VI.1. Curs (capitole/subcapitole) săpt.
Cap. I. Sintaxă / semantică / pragmatică 2
Cap. II. Legatura dintre semantică şi pragmatică în descrierea semnificaţiei în limbile
1
naturale
Cap. III. Tipuri de pragmatică 1
Cap. IV. Pragmatica în interpretarea expresiilor indexice: „Beforehand” pragmatics 2
Cap. V. Actele de vorbire – Austin şi Searle; verbe performative şi constative 2
Cap. VI. Acte locuţionare, ilocuţionare şi perlocuţionare 2
Cap. VII. Probleme ale teoriei austiniene a actelor de vorbire
1
Cap. VIII. Teoria lui Grice; implicatura conversaţională şi principiul cooperării
Cap. VIII. Maximele conversaţionale 2
Cap. IX. .Macro-acte de vorbire 1
VI.2. Seminar (dacă este cazul)
VI.3. Lucrări (dacă este cazul)
VI.4. Tematică proiect (dacă este cazul)
VII. Bibliografie obligatorie

Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, (1981 [1962]).
Grice, H. P. “Logic and Conversation”, în Davis, Steven (ed.), Pragmatics. A reader. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1991, 305-315.
Levinson, Stephen C. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Moeschler, Jaques & Anne Reboul.. Dicţionar enciclopedic de pragmatică. Cluj: Editura
Echinox, 1999 (Capitolul 5 “Pragmatică şi referinţă: lumi posibile şi spaţii mentale”)
Oltean, Ştefan (2006). Introducere în semantica referenţială. Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană
Searle, John R. Speech Acts. An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1977.
Bibliografie opţională
Davis, Steven. Pragmatics. A reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
VIII.
Forme de Metode didactice folosite
activitate
Curs Curs interactiv cu fundament de prelegere
Seminar
Lucrări
Proiect
IX.
Forme de Evaluare (scris, scris şi oral, oral, test, Procent din nota finală
activitate altele)
Examen
Colocviu 70%
Participarea 30%
la curs,
implicarea în
discuţii
Laborator
Proiect

Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof. dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Prof. dr. Stefan Oltean
Semestrul II
Titlul disciplinei: Canonul literar american în filmul american (curs optional)

Codul: LE 32227
Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere, sala stabilita conform orarului
CCCXXIV. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau

laborator

CCCXXV. Descrierea disciplinei:
Obiective:
 Cursul îşi propune să familiarizeze studenţii cu noţiuni fundamentale din aria
studiilor de film, cu istoria cinematografului american, cu analiza imaginii
cinematice, si cu instrumentele de baza ale scrierii de scenarii.
 Disciplinei are în vedere următoarele competenţe:
o Cunoaşterea unei serii de concepte esenţiale în domeniul studiilor de film
o Formarea unei viziuni de ansamblu asupra dezvoltării cinematografiei
americane
o Înţelegerea modului de compunere a cadrelor şi secvenţelor cinematice, şi
posibilitatea de a le analiza
o Dobândirea unor competenţe de lucru cu textul filmic şi cu forma
scenariului cinematografic
o Metode: predarea, vizionarea de filme, discuţia, prezentări practice ale
studenţilor
CCCXXVI. Bibliografia obligatorie:
Operele literare indicate în fiecare caz, şi părţi din următoarele studii:

Daniel Arijon Grammar of film language, Silman-James, 1991
Christian Metz, Film language: a semiotics of the cinema, University of Chicago
Press, 1991
Jill Nelmes (ed.) An introduction to film studies, Routledge, 2001
Dwight W. Swein Film scriptwriting: a practical manual, Focal, 1988
Bibliografia va fi furnizată de către cadrul didactic
CCCXXVII. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

 Copii xerox
CCCXXVIII. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

intermediare:
Săptămâna 1
 Conceptele de bază ale limbajului cinematic: cum se citeşte un film?
 Poveste, naraţiune, şi coduri cinematice
Bibliografie: Daniel Arijon,Grammar of film language; Jill Nelmes, An introduction
to film studies; resurse electronice
Săptămâna 2
 Limbaj cinematic, o ilustrare. Perspectivă, tipuri de cadre, planuri, secvenţe şi

mişcări ale camerei de filmat cu ilustrări practice
Bibliografie: Christian Metz, Film language: a semiotics of the cinema, resurse

electronice, secvenţe din filme
Săptămâna 3
 Scurtă istorie a cinematografului american, începuturile industriei, era

studiourilor, star-system, Hollywood Renaissance, box office şi blockbuster,
filmul independent, etc.
Bibliografie: Gerald Mast, Bruce Kawin, A short history of the movies, Longman, 1999;
Jill Nelmes, An introduction to film studies
Săptămâna 4
 Hollywood: abordări. „Auteur” şi „genre”. Genurile filmului american.

 Clasificare, analiza trăsăturilor distinctive ale genurilor
Bibliografie: Jill Nelmes, An introduction to film studies, resurse electronice

Săptămâna 5
 Film şi literatură 1. Adaptarea clasică a piesei de teatru: Tennessee Williams, A

streetcar named desire (1951, r. Elia Kazan). Vizionarea filmului.
Săptămâna 6
 A streetcar named desire (r. Elia Kazan). Analiza filmului cu prezentări şi discuţii.
Săptămâna 7
 Film şi literatură 2. Adaptarea postmodernă: Adaptation (2002, r. Spike Jonze; sc.

Charlie Kaufman). Vizionarea filmului.
Săptămâna 8
 Adaptation (r. Spike Jonze; sc. Charlie Kaufman). Analiză şi discuţii.
Săptămâna 9
 Film şi literatură 3. Analiza unui „gen”: horror. Stephen King, The shining. The
shining (1980, r. Stanley Kubrick). Vizionarea filmului.
Săptămâna 10
 The shining (r. Stanley Kubrick). Analiza comparată a filmului şi nuvelei. Gen sau
film de autor?
Săptămâna 11
 Film şi literatură 4. Film şi narativitate. Un thriller post-umanist: Chuck

Palahniuk, Fight club. Fight club (1999, r. David Fincher). Vizionarea filmului
Săptămâna 12
 Fight club (r. David Fincher). Analiza comparată a filmului şi romanului:

narativitate literară şi narativitate cinematică, aplicaţie.
Săptămâna 13
 Scenariul: elemente, structură (concept, personaje, acte, conflict, etc.). Scenariu

şi gen în filmul american.
Bibliografie: Dwight W. Swein Film scriptwriting: a practical manual; resurse

electronice
Săptămâna 14
 A scrie despre film: recenzia. Elemente ale recenziei, stilistica recenziei de film.
 Recapitulare şi pregătire pentru colocviu
Bibliografie: resurse electronice
CCCXXIX. Modul de evaluare:
activă la discuţii, prezentări ale unor analize de film.
CCCXXX. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:
CCCXXXI. Bibliografia opţională:
Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory, Oxford U.P., 1984

Norman K. Denzin, The cinematic society: the voyeur’s gaze, Sage, 1995
Douglas Kellner, Michael Ryan, Camera politica: The politics and ideology of
contemporary Hollywood film, Indiana U.P., 1988
Resurse online:
www.wordplayer.com
www.screenwriting.info
http://www.screenwriting-resources.com


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Universitatea ‘Babes-Bolyai’ Cluj-Napoca

I. Informatii generale despre curs

Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza contemporana – Structura gramaticala a limbii

II. Informatii despre titularul de curs

Nume, titlul stiintific: Chira Dorin, conferentiar dr.

III. Descrierea disciplinei

IV. Bibliografie obligatorie

Alexander, L.G. 1988, Longman English Grammar, Harlow: Longman

Lucrarile indicate in lista bibliografica pot fi consultate de catre studenti la biblioteca de

VI. Planificarea/Calendarul intilnirilor

1. The Noun (weeks: 1, 2)

4. Noun and Noun Phrase Substitutes (week: 7)

5. Simple Present and Past Tenses (week: 8)

6. The Expression of Past Time (weeks: 9, 10)

7. The Expression of Future Time (week: 11)

8. Modal Auxiliaries (weeks: 12, 13)

9. Theoretical and Hypothetical Meaning (week 14)

10.The Adverb (week 15)

VII. Modul de evaluare

IX. Bibliografie optionala

Allsop, J. 1989, Making Sense of English Grammar, London: Cassell.

Lucrarile indicate in lista bibliografica pot fi consultate de catre studenti la biblioteca de

Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular de curs,

I. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Titlul disciplinei: Practical course in Text Interpretation

Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Mihálycsa Erika

III. Descrierea disciplinei:

IV. Bibliografia obligatorie:

V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: hand-

VI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

Week 1: introductory class – presenting objectives and requirements; introducing the

Week 14: conclusions and feed-back.

VIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular de curs,

I. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic traduceri/Practical Course in Translations

Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Asist. drd. Octavian More

III. Descrierea disciplinei:

IV. Bibliografia obligatorie:

V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

VI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

1. Introduction and course description. Preview of study materials. The question of

VII. Modul de evaluare:

VIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

- prezenta obligatorie in procent de 75% din numarul de ore/semestru

IX. Bibliografia opţională:

Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular de curs,

I. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic exercitii gramaticale/Practical Course in Grammar

Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Asist. drd. Octavian More

III. Descrierea disciplinei:

This practical course is intended as a complementation of the theoretical courses in

IV. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Jones, L. (1993), Cambridge Advanced English. Student’s Book, Cambridge: CUP.

V. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

VI. Planificarea / Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor / examinărilor

VII. Modul de evaluare:

VIII. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

- prezenta obligatorie in procent de 75% din numarul de ore/semestru

IX. Bibliografia opţională:

Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular de curs,

I. Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

X. Informaţii despre titularul de curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator