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Universitatea „Babes-Bolyai‟ Cluj-Napoca

Facultatea de Litere

Catedra de limba si literatura engleza

Anul universitar 2010/2011

Semestrul: I

Anul de studii/specializarea: anul I (engleza B)

Curs magistral: LE 11221 Structura gramaticala a limbii engleze

Subdiscipline: 1. Curs practic: Interpretari de texte

2. Curs practic: Interpretari de texte

3. Curs practic: Traduceri de texte

4. Curs Practic: Eseuri

5. Curs practic: Tehnici de comunicare

I. Informatii generale despre curs

Titlul disciplinei: Structura gramaticala a limbii engleze

Codul: LE 11221

Numarul 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: [email protected]; 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.

V. Materiale folosite in procesul educational

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:





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:





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:






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.



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.





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:






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.


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:






10.The Adverb (week 14)

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.




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.

X. Sub-discipline:

1. Curs practic: Interpretari texte

A. Informaţii generale despre cursul practic

Titlul disciplinei: Interpretări texte

Locul de desfăşurare:

Programarea în orar a activităţilor:

B. Informaţii despre titularul de curs practic

Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Erika Mihálycsa

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail): [email protected]

Ore de audienţă:

C. 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 etc.)

Competenţe:

Dobândirea capacităţii de a interpreta un text de ficţiune; stăpânirea limbajelor 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; dezbateri în grup; explicarea şi discutarea

sistemelor de gândire critică-teoretică introdusă pe lista bibliografică opţională; prezentări

individuale şi în grup pe teme indicate de titularul de curs

D. Bibliografia obligatorie:

Virginia Woolf – “An Unwritten Novel”

Flann O‟Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds (fragm.)

Jeanette Winterson – “Disappearance II”, in The World and Other Places

Angela Carter – “Peter and the Woolf”

Julian Barnes – “Junction”/”Gnossienne”, from Cross Channel

Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (cap. 1-4)

Jeanette Winterson – Sexing the Cherry

Salman Rushdie, “East, West”

A.S. Byatt – “Baglady”

E. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

hand-outs, imagini, prezentări Power-Point de către titularul de curs.

F. 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: modernist self-referential writing. Virginia Woolf, „An Unwritten Novel‟

Key words: self-referential structures, „reality‟ vs. fiction

Students‟ tasks: reading the text, contributing to class debates.

Week 3:

Topic: opening up to postmodernist selfreferential structures. Flann O‟Brien, At Swim-Two-

Birds (fragm.) – Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (fragm.)

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.) – Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (fragm.)

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‟; A History of the World in 10 ½

Chapters (cap. 1)

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. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (I)

Key words: postmodern experience: fluid/fractured, multiple identities, history vs. story-

telling; the fracturing of patterns (linguistic, gender roles, historiography). The body as

marker of identity


Week 11

Topic: Identity problematized. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (I)

Key words: postmodern experience: fluid/fractured, multiple identities, history vs. story-

telling; the fracturing of patterns (linguistic, gender roles, historiography). The body as

marker of identity


Week 12

Topic: In-between identities. Salman Rushdie, „East, West‟

Key words: migrants, cultural interface, translation.


Week 13

Topic: postmodern sensibility. A.S.Byatt: “Baglady”

Key words: consumerism, the commodification and serialization of identity

Students‟ tasks: 1) reading the text, contributing to class debates

2) final paper submission.

Week 14: conclusions and feed-back.

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.

Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

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

examenului.

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.

2. Curs practice: Interpretari de texte


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

Interpretation

Locul de desfăşurare: Conform planificarii din orar

Programarea în orar a activităţilor: Conform planificarii din orar


Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Asist. dr. Octavian More

Informaţii de contact: [email protected]

Ore de audienţă: 2


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.


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


handout-uri, fotocopii


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

Assessment Criteria

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.

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.

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.

FIRST PAPER DUE

11. Specular Images in the Real and the Fictional IV. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet. Text

interpretation II.

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.

SECOND PAPER DUE

14. Concluding discussions. Final assessment.

G. Modul de evaluare:

- prezenta 15%

- participare activa 15%

- 2 lucrari semestriale (eseuri) 35% / lucrare

Pentru a obtine calificativul admis (nota 5), studentii trebuie sa cumuleze minim 50% din

punctajul maxim pentru lucrarile semestrial, cat si pentru proiectul final.

H. Detalii organizatorice, gestionarea situaţiilor excepţionale:

- 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.

I. Bibliografia opţională:

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



Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic traduceri/Practical Course in Translations








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.


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.




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


- prezenta 15%


- 2 lucrari semestriale (teste) 35% / lucrare


punctajul maxim pentru lucrarile semestriale.













4. Curs practic: Eseuri


Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de eseuri

Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere



Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Petronia Petrar


Ore de audienţă: conform orarului afişat


Cursul practic continuă activitatea începută în semestrul 1, pornind de la lectura unei serii de

eseuri aparţinând unor autori canonici, pentru a ajunge la producerea de discursuri academice

originale şi creative. Un interes special este acordat etapelor de cercetare şi de redactare a

eseurilor academice, de utilizare a aparatului critic, dar şi evitării plagiatului. Orele se

bazează pe implicarea participativă a studenţilor (atât la modul individual, cât şi în grupuri) în

scopul de a înţelege tehnicile de bază ale citirii şi scrierii de eseuri în limba engleză.

Obiective şi competenţe: crearea capacităţii de a produce diverse tipuri de discursuri clare,

corecte şi coerente, adaptarea stilului la registrul lingvstic potrivit, îmbunătăţirea

cunoştinţelor de limbă engleză scrisă şi vorbită, dezvoltarea capacităţii de cercetare a

studenţilor, folosirea aparatului critic.

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 (peer review).

D. Bibliografia obligatorie: disponibilă într-un dosar depus la Biblioteca de Engleză a

Facultăţii de Litere, sau prin mail de la titularul de curs practic. La titlurile de mai jos se

adaugă în mod obligatoriu handout-urile cu citate cu care vom lucra în clasă.

Dillard, Annie: „Seeing”

Beerbohm, Max: „Going Out for a Walk”

Lodge, David: „A Sense of the Past”

Rushdie, Salman: „Imaginary Homelands”

Swift, Jonathan: „A Modest Proposal”

Twain, Mark: „Advice to Youth”

E. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: fişe de lucru,

handout-uri, materiale produse de titularul de curs.


Week 1: introductory class; presentation of activities and requirements; defining the essay;

defining essay writing.

Week 2: Topic: Mark Twain, „Advice to Youth”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures; irony; drafting; referencing and citing.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing Twain‟s essay; discussing the handouts on irony

provided in the classroom; homework: an essay on „Irony in ‚Advice to Youth‟”.

Week 3:

Topic: „Irony in ‚Advice to Youth‟”

Key words: feedback on: firony; drafting; referencing and citing

Students‟ tasks: presenting and discussing their essays, peer-reviewing their colleagues‟

work, re-writing the essay (if necessary).

Week 4:

Topic: Jonathan Swift, „A Modest Proposal”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures; satire; drafting; referencing and citing.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing Swift‟s essay; discussing the handouts on satire

provided in the classroom; homework: an essay on „The Use of Satire by J. Swift”.

Week 5:

Topic: „The Use of Satire by J. Swift”

Key words: feedback on: satire; drafting; referencing and citing.



Week 6:

Topic: Max Beerbohm: „Going Out for a Walk”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures; contextualysing; distancing; comparison;

argumentation and opinion.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing the essay from a contemporary point of view;

analysing style; drafting and writing a composition on „Reading Beerbohm‟s ‚Going Out...‟

Today”

Week 7:


Key words: feedback on written essay



Week 8:

Topic: Annie Dillard, „Seeing”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures, contextualisation, definition, expansion.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing the essay, integrating information on handout,

drafting and writing an essay on „Uses of Seeing in Dillard‟s Text”

Week 9:

Topic: „Uses of Seeing in Dillard‟s Text”




Week 10: Topic: David Lodge, „A Sense of the Past”

Key words: critical essay, identifying concepts and ideas, documentation, research, norms of

writing, formal requirements, lay-out, publication.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing, identifying critical language and concepts, drafting

and writing a (critical) account of Lodge‟s criticism of John Fowles.

Week 11:

Topic: David Lodge, „A Sense of the Past”




Week 12:

Topic: Salman Rushdie, „Imaginary Homelands”

Key words: memory, culture, definition, comparison, argumentation

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing, drafting and writing the final essay (on „Memory in

Rushdie‟s ‚Imaginary Homelands‟”).

Week 13: conclusions, class feedback, final essay submission.

Week 14: feedback on final essay.

G. 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%).


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 regulamentului şi a legii, 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.

I. Bibliografia opţională: disponibilă de la titularul de curs practic:

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.

5. Curs practic: Tehnici de comunicare


Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza / Techniques of Communication

Codul: LE11221

Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de litere

Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform orarului


Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Ana Maria Florescu, asistent, drd.

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail): [email protected]

Ore de audienţă: conform orarului


Obiectivul principal al cursului practic este imbunatatirea capacitatii de comunicare in limba

engleza a studentilor. Obiectivul secundar al cursului este cunoasterea de catre studenti a

Cadrului European Comun al Limbilor cat si constientizarea si evaluarea nivelului propriu al

competentelor lingvistice. Cursul va pune accent pe deprinderea de intelegere – ascultare in

semestrul I.


1. “Cambridge Advanced English” de Leo Jones Cambridge University Press (1994)

2. “Progress to Proficiency” by Leo Jones CUP (1995)

3. Portfoliul European al Limbilor si Pasaportul European al Limbilor si

4. Grila de autoevaluare


Casetofon, CD-player, retroproiector din dotarea catedrei de limba engleza


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


Forma de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs. Nota este formata din rezultatul unui test de

intelegere – ascultare si o nota acordata pentru participare la orele de curs si prezenta. Testul

este planificat pe parcursul semestrului la o data agreata de studenti si profesor.


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 obtinute 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 modalitatii de testare nu exista posibilitate de frauda.

Studentii pot sa isi vada lucrarile dupa ce afla notele.


Cartile si manualele pentru dezvoltarea competentelor lingvistice in limba Engleza existente

la bibloteca facultatii sau la bibloteca Centrului Britanic din Cluj-Napoca.

Decan Sef catedra Titular curs

Prof.dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. M. Zdrenghea Conf.dr. Dorin Chira

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca


Anul universitar 2010-2011

Semestrul I

Informaţii generale despre curs, seminar, lucrare practică sau laborator

Titlul disciplinei: Literatura Engleza

Codul: LE 11261

Numărul de credite: 5

Locul de desfăşurare: Shakespeare

Programarea în orar a activităţilor: Luni ora 12-14

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

Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Coneliu Nicolescu

Prof. Dr.

Informaţii de contact (adresă e-mail, eventual nr. de telefon): [email protected]

Ore de audienţă: Marti

10-12

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

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

Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei:

Prezentari power point

Albume

Harti

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


London 1948

Sapt. 7: Geoffrey Chaucer The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of

Fowls



London, 1991


London 1948

Sapt. 8: Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales


Sapt. 9: Renasterea Engleza, dezvoltarea poeziei dupa Chaucer



London 1948


Sapt. 10: Evolutia poeziei, sonetul, Wyatt Surrey



London 1948


Sapt. 11: Sydney Spencer



London 1948


Sapt. 12: Perioada elisabetana, drama University Wits



London 1948


Sapt. 13: William Shakespeare sonete



London 1948


Sapt. 14: William Shakespeare teatru



London 1948


Modul de evaluare:

Verificare pe parcurs

Lucrari de semestru

Participare activa

30%

Examen scris

70%


Fraudele de orice fel sunt penalizate conform regulamentelor in vigoare


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

Universitatea „Babes-Bolyai‟ Cluj-Napoca


Catedra de limba si literatura engleza

An universitar 2010/2011

Semestrul : II

Anul de studii/specializarea: anul I (engleza B)

Curs magistral: LE 12221 Lexicologie

Sub-discipline: 1. Curs practic: Eseuri




5. Curs practic: Exercitii gramaticale

I. Informatii generale despre curs

Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza contemporana – Lexicologie si Lexicografie

Codul: LE 12221

Numar 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: [email protected]; tel. 0264-410016

Ore de audienta: 2, cab. M4

III. Descrierea disciplinei

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:

Course: 1. 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


Courses: 2,3. 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.


Course: 4. 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

Course: 5. 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


Beacon Press.


Course: 6. 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.

Course: 7. 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:





VII. Modul de evaluare:

- 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:


Beacon Press.



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.

X. Sub-discipline:

1.Curs practic: Eseuri

A. Informatii generale despre cursul practic

Titlul disciplinei: Eseuri

Locul de desfăşurare: conform planificarii din orar

Programarea în orar a activităţilor: conform planificarii


Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Erika Mihálycsa


Ore de audienţă:


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); stăpânirea 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




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.


hand-outs, imagini, prezentări Power-Point de către titularul de curs.


Week 1: introductory class; presentation of activities and requirements.

Week 2: Topic: punctuation

Key words: correctness, accuracy, language skills.

Students‟ tasks: drafting and writing, peer-response, debating and discussing each other‟s

drafts.

Week 3:

Topic: the descriptive essay: describing objects/spaces.

Key words: vocabulary building, organisation (introduction, main body, conclusions),

relevance.


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 discussing

each other‟s drafts.

Week 5:

Topic: the narrative essay I

Key words: story telling, raising and maintaining interest, creative writing.


drafts.

Week 6:

Topic: the narrative essay II

Key words: writing beginnings and endings, plotlines, topic selection.


drafts.

Week 7:

Topic: writing reviews: book reviews

Key words: assessment, critical summary, personal opinion, author presentation,

contextualising, finding relevance.

Students‟ tasks: topic debate, drafting and writing, peer-response, debating and discussing

each other‟s drafts.

Week 8:

Topic: writing reviews: film reviews

Key words: assessment, critical summary, personal opinion, author presentation,

contextualising, finding relevance.


drafts.

Week 9:

Topic: writing reports: assessment and informative reports

Key words: evaluation, opinion, recommendation, information processing.


drafts.

Week 10: Topic: writing reports: survey and proposal reports

Key words: analysis, questionnaires, conclusions, plans, suggestions, projects.


drafts.

Week 11:

Topic: the critical essay

Key words: documentation, research, norms of writing, formal requirements, lay-out,

publication.


drafts.

Week 12:

Topic: the literary essay I: reading a literary essay

Key words: formal conventions, identifying meanings, literary intepretation

Students‟ tasks: drafting and revising an academic essay, peer-response, debating and

discussing each other‟s drafts.

Week 13:

Topic: the literary essay II: writing a literary essay

Key words: subjectivity, creativity, open form

Students‟ tasks: writing an academic essay, peer-response, debating and discussing each

other‟s drafts.

Week 14: conclusions, feedback, final paper submission.


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%).


Prezenţa minimă, condiţie a intrării în examen, este de 60%; în situaţii de excepţie (de ex.,

boală, suprapunerea în orar a mai multor discipline) studenţilor li se va cere o lucrare (eseu)

în plus. Plagiatul – şi la o singură lucrare din cele cerute – aduce după sine acordarea notei 1

(unu) pe activitatea din tot semestrul.



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

Interpretation








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.


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.




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

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.

SECOND PAPER ANNOUNCED


Interpretation III.


Interpretation IV.

PORTFOLIOS DUE

14. Concluding discussions. Final assessment.


- prezenta 15%


- 2 lucrari semestriale (eseuri) 35% / lucrare


punctajul maxim pentru lucrarile semestrial, cat si pentru proiectul final.















Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic traduceri/Practical Course in Translations








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.


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.




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


- prezenta 15%


- 2 lucrari semestriale (teste) 35% / lucrare


punctajul maxim pentru lucrarile semestriale.















Titlul disciplinei: Curs practic de eseuri

Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de Litere



Nume, titlul ştiinţific: asist. dr. Petronia Petrar


Ore de audienţă: conform orarului afişat


Cursul practic continuă activitatea începută în semestrul 1, pornind de la lectura unei serii de

eseuri aparţinând unor autori canonici, pentru a ajunge la producerea de discursuri academice

originale şi creative. Un interes special este acordat etapelor de cercetare şi de redactare a

eseurilor academice, de utilizare a aparatului critic, dar şi evitării plagiatului. Orele se

bazează pe implicarea participativă a studenţilor (atât la modul individual, cât şi în grupuri) în

scopul de a înţelege tehnicile de bază ale citirii şi scrierii de eseuri în limba engleză.

Obiective şi competenţe: crearea capacităţii de a produce diverse tipuri de discursuri clare,

corecte şi coerente, adaptarea stilului la registrul lingvstic potrivit, îmbunătăţirea

cunoştinţelor de limbă engleză scrisă şi vorbită, dezvoltarea capacităţii de cercetare a

studenţilor, folosirea aparatului critic.

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 (peer review).

D. Bibliografia obligatorie: disponibilă într-un dosar depus la Biblioteca de Engleză a

Facultăţii de Litere, sau prin mail de la titularul de curs practic. La titlurile de mai jos se

adaugă în mod obligatoriu handout-urile cu citate cu care vom lucra în clasă.

Dillard, Annie: „Seeing”

Beerbohm, Max: „Going Out for a Walk”

Lodge, David: „A Sense of the Past”

Rushdie, Salman: „Imaginary Homelands”

Swift, Jonathan: „A Modest Proposal”

Twain, Mark: „Advice to Youth”

E. Materiale folosite în cadrul procesului educaţional specific disciplinei: fişe de lucru,

handout-uri, materiale produse de titularul de curs.


Week 1: introductory class; presentation of activities and requirements; defining the essay;

defining essay writing.

Week 2: Topic: Mark Twain, „Advice to Youth”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures; irony; drafting; referencing and citing.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing Twain‟s essay; discussing the handouts on irony

provided in the classroom; homework: an essay on „Irony in ‚Advice to Youth‟”.

Week 3:

Topic: „Irony in ‚Advice to Youth‟”

Key words: feedback on: firony; drafting; referencing and citing



Week 4:

Topic: Jonathan Swift, „A Modest Proposal”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures; satire; drafting; referencing and citing.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing Swift‟s essay; discussing the handouts on satire

provided in the classroom; homework: an essay on „The Use of Satire by J. Swift”.

Week 5:

Topic: „The Use of Satire by J. Swift”

Key words: feedback on: satire; drafting; referencing and citing.



Week 6:


Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures; contextualysing; distancing; comparison;

argumentation and opinion.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing the essay from a contemporary point of view;

analysing style; drafting and writing a composition on „Reading Beerbohm‟s ‚Going Out...‟

Today”

Week 7:





Week 8:

Topic: Annie Dillard, „Seeing”

Key words: reading to identify ideas and structures, contextualisation, definition, expansion.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing the essay, integrating information on handout,

drafting and writing an essay on „Uses of Seeing in Dillard‟s Text”

Week 9:

Topic: „Uses of Seeing in Dillard‟s Text”




Week 10: Topic: David Lodge, „A Sense of the Past”

Key words: critical essay, identifying concepts and ideas, documentation, research, norms of

writing, formal requirements, lay-out, publication.

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing, identifying critical language and concepts, drafting

and writing a (critical) account of Lodge‟s criticism of John Fowles.

Week 11:

Topic: David Lodge, „A Sense of the Past”




Week 12:

Topic: Salman Rushdie, „Imaginary Homelands”

Key words: memory, culture, definition, comparison, argumentation

Students‟ tasks: reading and discussing, drafting and writing the final essay (on „Memory in

Rushdie‟s ‚Imaginary Homelands‟”).

Week 13: conclusions, class feedback, final essay submission.

Week 14: feedback on final essay.

G. 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%).


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 regulamentului şi a legii, 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.

I. Bibliografia opţională: disponibilă de la titularul de curs practic:



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.

5. Curs practic: Exercitii gramaticale


Titlul disciplinei: Limba engleza / Exerciţii gramaticale

Codul:11221

Locul de desfăşurare: Facultatea de litere

Programarea în orar a activităţilor:conform orarului


Nume, titlul ştiinţific: Ana Maria Florescu, asistent, drd.


Ore de audienţă: conform orarului


Obiectivul principal al cursului este imbunaţatirea cunoştiinţelor studenţilor in domeniul

gramaticii limbii engleze prin exerciţii, prezentari si discuţii care vor duce la conştientizarea

diferenţelor dintre gramatica limbii materne cea a limbii engleze. In cadrul orelor de curs

practic se vor folosi metode interactive de predare.


Bădescu, A. 1984 Gramatica limbii engleze, Editura ştiinţifică şi enciclopedică, Bucureşti

Jones, L. 1995 Progress to Proficiency Cambridge University Press

Jones, L. 1994 Cambridge Advanced English Cambridge University Press

Vince, M. 2000 Advanced Language Practice Heinemann and Macmillan Publishers


Casetofon, CD player si retroproiector din dotarea catedrei de limba engleza

F. Planificarea /Calendarul întâlnirilor şi a verificărilor/examinărilor intermediare:

Week 1.The Common European Framework for Languages and the language/ grammar

knowledge requirements.

Week 2 The self assessment grid related to CEF and own assessment and awareness of English

language needs

Week 3.Accuracy versus fluency

Week 4 Common errors and their origin

Week 5 Phonetics and Phonology

Week 6 Vocabulary and false friends

Week 7 Vocabulary and false friends

Week 8 Idioms and meaning

Week 9 Tenses and meaning

Week 10 Tenses and meaning

Week 11 Sentences and punctuation

Week 12 Abbreviations

Week 13 Test

Week 14 Test


Forma de evaluare: verificare pe parcurs. Nota este formată din rezultatul unui test de

gramatică si nota acordată pentru participare si prezenţa la curs.


Nota de la cursul practic face parte din nota studentului la unul din cursurile de limba

engleză. Nota finală este media notei obţinute la test – exprimata printr-un procent la care se

adaugă sau se scad 10% acodrate pentru prezenta si participarea la ore. Datorită modalitaţii

mailto:[email protected]

de testare nu exista posibilitate de fraudă. Studenţii pot sa işi vada lucrarile dupa ce află

notele.


Carţi si manuale care există la biblioteca facultăţii sau la biblioteca Centrului Britanic din

Cluj-Napoca.

Decan Sef catedra Titular curs

Prof.dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. M Zdrenghea Conf.dr. Dorin Chira

Universitatea Babeş–Bolyai, Cluj–Napoca


Anul universitar 2010-2011

Semestrul II

Informaţii generale despre CURS (anul I, Engleza B)

Titlul disciplinei: THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

(THE RESTORATION & THE ENLIGHTENMENT)

Sub-discipline:

Seminar: THE RESTORATION THEATRE: ENGLISH DRAMA FROM 1660-1710

Titlul disciplinei: 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/ seminar bilunar

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

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

Informaţii de contact : [email protected]


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.

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.

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1613) -- Engl. 21571 ; Engl. 16151

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/malfi10.txt)

Ben Jonson: Volpone; or, The Fox -- Engl. 20156 ; BI 29634 ; J. 1584

(http://www.planbpublishers.com/downloads/html/volpone.htm)

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books I & II) -- Engl. 14597 ; Central Library LC.674/1997

(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MilPL67.html)

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock -- Engl. 19577 (http://www-

unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/poemlink.html)

Important notice: CHOOSE 6 OF THE FOLLOWING 10 TEXTS:

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels -- Engl. 21574 ; Central Library LC.2979/1996

(http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html)

Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/pam1w10.txt)

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/malfi10.txt

http://www.planbpublishers.com/downloads/html/volpone.htm

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MilPL67.html

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/poemlink.html

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/poemlink.html

http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/pam1w10.txt

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders -- Engl. 21572

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/mollf11.txt)

Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling -- Engl. 21311 ; Central Library

675730 (http://www.bartleby.com/301/)

M. G. Lewis: The Monk Engl. 20209 ; Engl. 16060 ; Engl. 20150

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tmonk10.txt)

Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker -- Engl. 21573 ; Engl. 21310 Engl.

19833 (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/txohc10.txt)

Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy -- Engl. 16059

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/shndy10.txt)

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility -- Engl. 21039 ; Central Library 675692

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/sense11.txt)

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.

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.

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

Court Masques. Court entertainments: origins; ceremonial contexts.

political & religious significance. Inigo Jones and the ephemeral

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/mollf11.txt

http://www.bartleby.com/301/

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tmonk10.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/txohc10.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/shndy10.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/sense11.txt

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 reading in class:

▪ 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 (required: 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 (see „important notice‟ on page 2 above):

▪ 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: „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)

WEEK 9: 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:


▪ 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)

Richetti, John (ed) (1996) The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel


WEEK 10: 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:


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 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:


Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

Optional:

▪ Waldron, Mary (1999) Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time Cambridge & New York:


▪ 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


WEEK 12: 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:


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 13: 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:


▪ 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 14: 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:


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).

Modul de evaluare:

Assessment Guidelines:

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

give presentations of a particular topic and to initiate discussion. 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

presented, but will also foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas to be reinforced in the

analysis of the works examined.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: 30%

HOME ASSIGNMENT: this represents an academic research paper on a topic of your

choice (in relation to the works studied this semester – 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: 60% 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% class contributions

30% home assignment

60% written exam

!!! The final grade will be computed as follows:

2 thirds – the course grade

1 third – the seminar grade (seminar on the Restoration theatre)


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.


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

A. 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


Locul de desfăşurare: FACULTY OF LETTERS

Programarea în orar a activităţilor: seminar bilunar


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

Informaţii de contact : [email protected]



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;

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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.


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:

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Primary Bibliography (compulsory): CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE PLAY:

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


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 Way of the World (1694)

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/dbdlr10.txt

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html



http://drama.eserver.org/plays/17th_century/rover/

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/274/1876/frameset.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/dbdlr10.txt


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.

F. 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 (SEE „IMPORTANT NOTICE‟ ON PAGE 14):

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:


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:


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:


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 (SEE „IMPORTANT NOTICE‟):

READ: William Congreve: The Way of the World (1700)


Assessment Guidelines:

10%

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.

30% MID-TERM TEST PAPER

60% FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING 3 SOURCES:

A. 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.

B. WRITTEN (HOME) ASSIGNMENT:

This will be a 3-page assignment (probably due at the end of the semester), requiring you

to comment on a suggested topic (discussed in the previous classes). You will receive the

instructions two weeks ahead of the deadline.

C. CLASS PERFORMANCE OF A SCENE FROM ONE OF THE RESTORATION PLAYS


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.


Optional Reading Material

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.

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12. Day, Martin S. History of English Literature 1660-1837. New York: Doubleday & Co.,

1963.

13. Mudure, Mihaela Istorie si literatura. 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.

Titular de curs,

Lect. Dr. Carmen Borbely Decan, Sef de catedra, Titular curs, Prof. dr. Corin Braga Prof.dr. Mihai Zdrenghea Lect. Dr. Carmen Borbely

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