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SESIUNEA IULIE 2018, SEPTEMBRIE 2018, FEBRUARIE 2019

LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ – SPECIALIZAREA A/B

LIMBA ENGLEZǍ CONTEMPORANǍ

MODULUL 1:

A. MORPHOLOGY

VERBAL CATEGORIES: TENSE, ASPECT, MOOD, MODALITY

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

contextual values)

- Present Tense Simple, Present Tense Progressive, Simple Past,

Past Progressive, Present Perfect Simple, Present Perfect Progressive,

Past Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Progressive

─ Means of expressing futurity in English

ASPECT ─ Tense versus Aspect

─ BE-progressive and aspectual classes: recategorisation

─ The perfective aspect in English

MOOD ─ The Indicative versus the Subjunctive: factual versus non-factual

─ The Subjunctive Mood in English (forms, meaning, distribution and use)

- The ‘synthetic’ Subjunctive (values and distribution)

- The ‘analytical’ Subjunctive (values and distribution)

─ Classes of matrix verbs and adjectives in matrix clause that trigger the use of the

Subjunctive

MODALITY ─ Morphological and syntactic behaviour of Modal Verbs

─ Epistemic and deontic classification of modals in English

BIBLIOGRAFIE

Obligatorie

1. Crăiniceanu, I., Elements of English Morphology. Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei “România de

Mâine”, 2007.

2. Duţescu-Coliban, Taina, Aspects of English Morphology. Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei

“România de Mâine”, p. 150-243, 2000.

3. Ştefănescu, I., English Morphology. Editura Universităţii Bucureşti, vol. 2, 1988,

B. ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE

- Translations from/into English

MODULUL II:

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

ENGLISH (Verb Subcategorisation)

─ SENTENCE STRUCTURE (constituents and functions)

─ VERB PHRASE STRUCTURE (constituents and functions)

─ SUBCATEGORISATION OF THE VERB (according to its complements and its argument structure):

intransitive verbs

transitive verbs

─ COPULATIVE PREDICATION - Status of the verb to be

- The predicative – syntactic and logico-semantic classifications

─ INTRANSITIVE PREDICATIONS:

- simple intransitive verbs (unaccusatives and unergatives)

- intransitive verbs with indirect or prepositional object;

- complex intransitives (“phrasal verbs”) with adverbial particle and/or preposition;

- relational intransitives (verbs of possession, reciprocal verbs);

- intransitives with adverbials.

─ TRANSITIVE PREDICATIONS:

- Monotransitives with direct “affected” object and/or “effected” object;

- other subcategories of monotransitives (with direct instrumental object, locative, experiencer, etc).

- Ditransitives (verbs with double direct object, dative, with prepositional object).

- Possibilities of passivisation.

- Logico-semantic and syntactic classification of basic and derivative causative verbs.

- VERBS WITH A DOUBLE REGIME – subcategory of ergatives.

- Recategorisation of transitive and intransitive verbs.

BIBLIOGRAFIE

BIBLIOGRAFIE OBLIGATORIE/MINIMALĂ:

1. Serban, D., The Syntax of English Predications. Ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine, 2006

2. Cornilescu, A., English Complementation: A Minimalist Perspective. EUB, 2003

3. Quirk, R., Greenbaum, S., Svartvik, J., A Grammar of Contemporary English. Longman Group Ltd., 1972

4. Şerban, D., Drăguşin D., Haţăgan R., English Syntax Workbook. Ed. Fundaţiei România de

Mâine, 2005

BIBLIOGRAFIE FACULTATIVĂ:

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

2. Avram L., English Syntax. The Structure of Root Clauses.Oscar Print, 2003

3. Haegeman, L., Gueron, J., English Grammar, A Generativist Perspective. T.J. International, Padstow,

Cornwall, 1999



MODULUL III

A. THE SYNTAX OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCE

- SUBORDINATION BY RELATIVIZATION - The mechanism of subordination by Relativization

- The classification of Relative Clauses

- Restrictive Relative Clauses

- Non-restrictive Relative Clauses

- Free Relative Clauses

- SUBORDINATION BY COMPLEMENTATION

THAT CLAUSES - General characteristics; (THAT Clauses as “abstract nominals”; THAT Clauses as

Complement Phrases)

- Distribution and classes of verbs subcategorising for THAT Clauses

- Extraposed Clauses; Expletive IT

INFINITIVE CLAUSES - General characteristics

- The status of FOR as a Complementizer and of TO as Inflection

- The Subject of the Infinitive Clause (Overt and non-overt Subjects of Infinitive Clauses –

various interpretations)

- Indefiniteness of the Subject

- Subject and Object control; the Null Subject PRO; Control Predicates

- Raising Predicates

- FOR-TO Infinitive Clauses and PRO Clauses; syntactic functions

- Raising patterns – various interpretations

- The Nominative + Infinitive Construction; classes of triggers

- The Accusative + Infinitive Construction; classes of triggers

BIBLIOGRAFIE


1. Cornilescu, A., English Syntax. Volume 2, Editura Universităţii Bucureşti, 1982

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

3. Serban, D., The Syntax of English Predications. Ed. Fundatiei România de Mâine, 2006


1. Jacobs, Roderick, A., English Syntax. A Grammar for English Language Professionals. Oxford University

Press, 1995

2. Haegeman, L., Gueron, J., English Grammar, A Generativist Perspective. T.J. International, Padstow,

Cornwall, 1999

3. Radford Andrew, Transformational Grammar. Cambridge University Press, 1990

BIBLIOGRAFIE SUPLIMENTARĂ:

1. Chomsky, Lectures on Government and Binding. Foris Publications, 1982

2. Cornilescu, A., Complementation in English. Editura Universităţii Bucureşti, 2003

3. Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech, J. Svartvik. A Grammar of Contemporary English, Longman Group

Ltd., 1972



ENGLISH LITERATURE

MODULUL I:

A. DRAMA

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

Plot and characters. Marginal characters in the play.

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

Historicist readings of the play. Plot and characters. Similarities in point of theme with A

Midsummer Night’s Dream (fathers and daughters, essence and appearance, manipulation through

illusion). Marginal characters in the play.

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

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

characters. Marginal characters in the play.

William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night and As You Like It as high romantic comedies. Similarities

and differences between the two comedies in terms of plot development, types of characters, comic

situation.

John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi. Proto-Gothic and horror. Why is the Duchess considered

Hamlet’s feminine counterpart and the greatest female character of all English Renaissance drama?

Compare Bosola to Hamlet and Malvolio.

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

plot and characters.

BIBLIOGRAFIE MINIMALĂ:

George Volceanov et al. – Lectures on Classical English Literature, Editura Fundatiei Romania de

Maine, 2007.

George Volceanov – „Despre răzbunare si iertare prin magie şi piraterie”, Prefaţa la Furtuna, in W.

Shakespeare, Opere, Vol. 1, Tracus Arte, 2016.

George Volceanov – „De trei ori Hamlet”, Prefaţa la Hamlet, in W. Shakespeare, Opere, Vol. 2,

Tracus Arte, 2016.

Odette Blumenfeld – Prefaţa la Vis de-o noapte-n miezul verii, in W. Shakespeare, Opere, Vol. 4,

Editura Paralela 45, 2011. Tracus Arte, 2016.

The Short Oxford History of English Literature / Scurta istorie Oxford a literaturii engleze (orice

editie disponibila).



MODULUL II

A. FICTION (THE NOVEL)

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

F. Scott Fitzerald – The Great Gatsby

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Truman Capote – Other Voices, Other Rooms

David Lodge – Small World

The historical context of each novel (rise of bourgeois, industrialization, the Victorian age,

modernism, post-world War I, the development of technology, the decline of the South, the world

of academics etc.). The plot as synthesis among character, action and thought. Narrative techniques

and narrative speed: telling, showing, ellipsis. Types of narrators Point of view. Time and space in

the novel (duration, localization, setting, flash-back, road novels, travel novels etc.) The difference

between story and plot. Characterization. The themes of the aforementioned novels. Types of novel:

traditional, Gothic, Bildungsroman, utopia, campus novels.


George Volceanov et al. – Lectures on Classical English Literature, Editura Fundaţiei România de

Maine, 2007.

Florin Pîtea – An Introduction to 20th Century British and American Fiction, Editura Fundaţiei

România de Maine, 2008

Wayne C. Booth – The Rhetoric of Fiction / Retorica romanului (orice editie disponibila).



MODULUL III

A. POETRY

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18, 66, 130

John Donne – A Valediction: Of Weeping, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

William Wordsworth – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley – To Jane. With a Guitar; Ozymandias

John Keats – La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Edgar Allan Poe – Annabel Lee

Ezra Pound – In a Station of the Metro

William Carlos Williams – The Red Wheelbarrow

Dylan Thomas – Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Theodore Roethke – In A Dark Time

The students are to prepare the text analysis of the aforementioned poems, referring to: poetic

genre, theme(s), key words, critical approach chosen for analysis, figures of speech, types of

images, the stylistic dominant of the analyzed poem, elements of prosody (strophic structure, meter,

line, rhythm, rhyming pattern).


George Volceanov et al. – English Poetry up to 1830, Editura Fundatiei Romania de Maine, 2007.

Liviu Andreescu – A Thematic Introduction to Twentieth-Century British and American Poetry,

Second Edition, Editura Fundatiei Romania de Maine, 2011.

Andrew Sanders – The Short Oxford History of English Literature / Scurta istorie Oxford a

literaturii engleze (orice editie disponibila).



ENGLISH PRACTICAL COURSE


Lupu, Janeta, 2006: English Practical Course Workbook, ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine

Şerban, D., Drăguşin, D., 2007: English Practical Course for Second Year Students, ed. Fundaţiei

România de Mâine

Lupu, J., Buzea, O., Birtalan, A., 2007: English Practical Course for First Year Students, ed. Fundaţiei

România de Mâine

Bădescu, A., 1963: Gramatica Limbii Engleze, ed. ştiinţifică, Buc.;

Gălăţeanu-Fârnoagă, G., E. Comişel, 1995: Gramatica Limbii Engleze, ed. Omegapress, Buc.;

Leviţchi, L., 1994: Gramatica Limbii Engleze, ed. Teora, Buc.;

Şerban, D., Drăguşin, D., 2004: English Syntax Workbook, ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine

Vianu, L., 2003: English With a Key, ed. Teora, Buc.;


Graver, G.B., 1994: Advanced English Practice, Oxford University Press

Wellman, Guy 1998: Wordbuilder, Heineman

BIBLIOGRAFIE SUPLIMENTARĂ:

Collins Cobuild, 1990, English Grammar, Harper Collins Publishers, London

Evans, V., 1998, Successful Writing Proficiency, Express Publishing

Jordan, R.R., 1980, Academic Writing Course, Collins ELT

Lott, H., 2005, Real English Grammar, Marshall Cavendish

Murphy, R. 1994: English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press

Swan, M. and D. Baker, 2008, Grammar Scan, Oxford University Press

Vince, M.,2003: Advanced Language Practice, Macmillan

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

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