FACULTATEA DE LITERE

DEPARTAMENTUL DE LIMBI ŞI LITERATURI MODERNE ŞI ŞTIINŢELE COMUNICĂRII

 

TEMATICA EXAMENULUI DE LICENŢĂ IUNIE 2018

LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ - O LIMBĂ ŞI LITERATURĂ

MODERNĂ

 Modul 1 

LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ

    1. The Victorian novel (Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy)

    2. The Modern novel (Joseph Conrad, Henry James) 

    3. Modernist techniques and strategies in poetry (T.S. Eliot)

    4. The theatre of the absurd (Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter)

    5. Postwar poetry (Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath)

    6. Female characters in Shakespeare’s romantic comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ As You Like It/ Twelfth’s Night/ The Merchant of Venice/ Love’s Labour’s Lost/ Much Ado about Nothing/ All’s Well that Ends Well)

    7. Contrastive Italian Settings in Shakespeare’s Comedies (The Merchant of Venice/The Taming of the Shrew/The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

    8. The eighteenth-century novel: plot, themes, characters (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels/ Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders/ Robinson Crusoe/ Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews/ Samuel Richardson, Pamela/ Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy) 

    9. Definitions of identity (Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Swift)

    10. Special links between character and setting (Ian McEwan, David Lodge)

    11. Narrators as protagonists (Angela Carter, Graham Swift, Fay Weldon)

    12. Developing the campus novel: David Lodge (Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work)

 

LIMBA ENGLEZĂ CONTEMPORANĂ

    1. Quasi-count nouns

    2. Collective nouns

    3. Pluralia tantum nouns: nouns with count noun properties

    4. Mass nouns and quantifiers 

    5. Explain and illustrate the distinction between the inflected and the prepositional genitive

    6. Gender classes

    7. The values/uses of the subjunctive 

    8. The values/uses of the present perfect

    9. Existential constructions (structure, verbs, logical subject, grammatical subject)

    10. Coordination and ellipsis (coordinators, correlative pairs, types of ellipsis: gapping, long-distance (so/neither constructions, ellipsis in indirect questions, ellipsis in the NP). 

    11.  That-complement clauses (syntactic properties, extraposition, syntactic functions, that-deletion, tense and mood in that-complement clauses)

    12. Infinitival complement clauses. (verbal properties, syntactic functions, tough movement, the subject of the infinitive)

    13. Constructions based on raising. (definition, eight types of constructions, verbs that allow the two types of raising)

    14. Define and illustrate the structure of speech acts proposed by Austin

    15. Explain and illustrate the distinction between entailment and presupposition

    16. Explain and illustrate the distinction between deictic and non-deictic usages of indexicals

 

FACULTATEA DE LITERE

DEPARTAMENTUL DE LIMBI ŞI LITERATURI MODERNE ŞI ŞTIINŢELE COMUNICĂRII

 

TEMATICĂ LICENŢĂ IUNIE 2018

LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ - O LIMBĂ ŞI LITERATURĂ

MODERNĂ

 Modul 2 

LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ

    1. Victorian poetry (Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson)

    2. The Modernist novel (James Joyce, Virginia Woolf)

    3. The novel in the fifties (William Golding)

    4. The postmodern novel and drama (John Fowles, Tom Stoppard)

    5. Irishness and Englishness (W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney)

    6. Robinson Crusoe and Prospero: Two civilized male Europeans? (Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; William Shakespeare, The Tempest).

    7. Female characters in eighteenth-century English novels (Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders/ Henry Fielding: Tom Jones/ Samuel Richardson: Pamela).

    8. Real and Imaginary Locations in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction: Gulliver’s Travels and Tom Jones 

    9. The problematic relationship between past and present (Graham Swift, Peter Ackroyd)

    10. Dialogism and metafiction (David Lodge, Ian McEwan)

    11. Gender relations in fiction (Fay Weldon, Angela Carter)

    12. Magical realism in British Fiction (Angela Carter, Graham Swift)

 

LIMBA ENGLEZĂ CONTEMPORANĂ

    1. The values/uses of the simple present tense

    2. The values/uses of the simple past tense 

    3. Pluralia tantum nouns: nouns with mass noun properties

    4. Classes of sortals

    5. The morpho-syntactic properties of sortals (i.e. countable nouns)

    6. Recategorization of mass nouns as countable nouns

    7. Syntactic properties of auxiliary verbs.  (have, be, NICE properties of do)

    8. Passivisation. (definition, be-passive vs. get-passive, passivizable verbs, by-phrase deletion).

    9. Interrogative sentences (a. wh-questions: wh-phrase, questioning the IO, PO; multiple wh-questions; b. derivation of yes/no questions, tag questions)

    10. Relative clauses (definition, classification: restrictive/ non-restrictive, dependent/ free, finite/ non-finite)

    11. Gerundial clauses (types, syntactic functions, verbs with infinitive/ gerund, gerund vs. participle) 

    12. Explain the constative – performative distinction 

    13. Explain and illustrate the distinction between semantic and pragmatic presuppositions

    14. Discuss and illustrate the Gricean maxims of conversation 

    15. Types of presuppositions

    16. Types of deixis 

Bibliografie

 

LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ

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Ciugureanu, Adina. Victorian Selves (A Study in the Literature of the Victorian Age). Constanta: Ovidius University Press, 2004.

Ciugureanu, Adina. Modernism and the Idea of Modernity. Constanta: Ex Ponto, 2004.

Ciugureanu, Adina. Post-War Anxieties. British Literature in the 1950s and the 1960s. Constanta: Ex Ponto, 2006.

Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. From Dickens to Hardy. vol. 6. London: Penguin, 1982.

Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica. A Course in Elizabethan Literature: William Shakespeare. Constanta: Ovidius University Press, 1997.

Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica. A Survey Course in English Literature: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Bucuresti: Credis, 2001. 

Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica. Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Stanca, Nicoleta. Duality of Vision in Seamus Heaney’s Writings. Constanta: Ex Ponto, 2009. 

Stanca, Nicoleta. The Harp and the Pen: Tradition and Novelty in Modern Irish Writing. Bucuresti: Editura Universitara, 2013.  

Vlad, Eduard. A Course in British Romanticism. Bucuresti: Credis, 2001.

Vlad, Eduard. Romantic Myths: Alternative Stories. Constanta: Ex Ponto, 2004.

Vlad, Eduard. Larkin: The Glory and the Gloom. Constanta: Mondograf, 1997.

Vlad, Eduard. Authorship and Identity in Contemporary Fiction. Constanta: Ovidius University Press, 2005.

 

LIMBA ENGLEZĂ CONTEMPORANĂ

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BACIU, I. 2004, Functional Categories in English. Vol. I. Nominal Categories. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti. 

CORNILESCU, A. 1986. English Syntax, vol. 2, Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti. 

CRAINICEANU, I. 2007 Elements of English Morphology, București, Editura Fundației România de Mâine.

HORNOIU, D. Nominal Categories in English. Theory and Practice, Ovidius University Press, Constanta, 2016.

HORNOIU, D. Elements of English Morphology: Verbal Categories, Ovidius University Press, Constanta, 2016.

HORNOIU, D. An Introduction to Pragmatics, Ovidius University Press, Constanta, 2016.

HORNOIU, D.,2009, An Introduction to English Morphology: Nominal Categories, Constanța: Ovidius University Press. 

GREENBAUM, S. 1996. The Oxford English Grammar. Oxford University Press.

GREENBAUM, S. & R. QUIRK. 1990.  A Student’s Grammar of the English Language. Longman.

QUIRK, R., S. GREENBAUM, G. LEECH, J. SVARTVIK. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman.

SERBAN, D., 1982 English Syntax, vol. I, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press.