Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Faculty of Letters

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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Faculty of Letters

Study Guide

2014-2015

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CONTENTS Part 1

Faculty Mission and History 3

Management & Structure 4

Part 2

Specialisations 5

Postgraduate (MA) Studies: Course Descriptions 6

General and Romanian Linguistics 6

Romanian Literature and Literary Hermeneutics 15

World and Comparative Literature 21

American Studies 30

Applied Linguistics – Teaching EFL 40

Francophone Studies 47

German Culture in the European Context 56

Italian Language, Literature and Civilisation 64

Spanish Language, Literature and Civilisation 71

Classical languages, Literatures and Civilisations 76

Russian and Polish Languages, Literatures and Civilisations 81

Translation and Terminology 88

Techniques of Editorial Production 95

The Doctoral School 100

Part 3 104

Romanian Language Courses for Foreign Students 104

Part 4

Erasmus Information 107

Other Useful Information 108

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Part 1

Faculty Mission and History

Our Aim:

To repare students for future careers such as: teachers, researchers in the fields of literary studies, linguistics and cultural studies, as well as specialists in translation and interpreting or journalism and communication science.

Historical References

1860 (26 Oct) Inauguration of the University of Iasi – the Faculty of Letters is the first Faculty of the University with just one department, Classical (Latin) and Romanian Literature 1864 The university is reorganised: Faculty of Letters and Philosophy

1867 Department of Romanian Literature and History

1897 Inauguration of the New University Palace (present location) Department of History of Greek Literature

Department of Romanian Philology

Department of History of French Literature 1905 Department of Slavonic Languages

1907 Department of German Studies 1918 (1 Dec.) The Great Union of Romania

1925 Department of English Language and Literature 1926 Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Department of Literary Criticism and Aesthetics 1960 Foreign languages lectureships are introduced 1964 Department of World Literature

1974 Department of Romanian Language for Foreign Students 1989 Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences

Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Anthropology

Number of students enrolled:

2.128

Number of teaching staff: 119 (full-time); 72 (part-time)

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Management & Structure

Dean: Codrin Liviu Cuțitaru, Professor PhD Vice-Dean: Magda Jeanrenaud, Professor PhD Vice-Dean: Antonio Mihai Patraș, Professor PhD

Vice-Dean: Ioan Constantin Lihaciu, Associate Professor PhD Administrative Director: Bogdan Constantinovici, Economist Head Secretary: Doina Popescu

Contact

Phone: +40 232 201052, +40 232 201053 Fax: +40 232 201152

E-mail:[email protected]

Departments

1. Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Comparative Literature (Director: Ioan Milică, Lecturer PhD):

 Romanian Language and General Linguistics (Head: Alexandru Gafton, Professor PhD)

 Romanian Literature (Head: Lăcrămioara Petrescu, Professor PhD)

 Romanian Language for Foreign Students (Head: Ludmila Braniște, Associate Professor PhD)

 Comparative Literature (Head: Ana Maria Constantinovici, Associate Professor PhD)

2. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Director: Dragoș Cojocaru, Associate Professor PhD):

 English Language and Literature (Head: Rodica Dimitriu, Professor PhD)

 French Language and Literature (Head: Simona-Mihaela Modreanu, Professor PhD)

 German Language and Literature (Head: Andrei Hoișie, Professor PhD)

 Slavic Language and Literature (Head: Leonte Ivanov, Professor PhD)

 Classical languages, Italian and Spanish (Head: : Dragoș Cojocaru, Associate Professor PhD) 3. Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences (Director: Alexandru Lăzescu, Lecturer)

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Part 2

Programmes & Course Descriptions

Postgraduate (MA) programmes:

I. Language and Literature:

 Romanian General Linguistics

 Romanian Literature and Literary Hermeneutics

 World and Comparative Literature

 American Studies

 Applied Linguistics – Teaching EFL

 Francophone Studies

 Teaching French as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Education^*

 German Culture in a European Context

 Foreign Languages, Literatures and Civilisations (Italian, Spanish, Classical languages and Russian and Polish)

 Translation and Terminology II. Communication Sciences

 Techniques of Editorial Production in the Printed, Audiovisual and Multimedia Press

* Only if the necessary number of applicants is met.

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POSTGRADUATE (MA) STUDIES: COURSE DESCRIPTIONS GENERAL AND ROMANIAN LINGUISTICS

1^ST YEAR OF STUDY Course title: General and Applied Linguistics

Course code: MLB0811 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Year of study: 1^st Semester: 1^st

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Mircea Ciubotaru

Course objective: Enrich and strengthen students' knowledge and terminology on general linguistics; apply the acquired knowledge to text analysis.

Course contents: Language – the main semiotic system. Language units. Structure and function. Contents and expression, substance and form of language. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations within the language structures. Levels and hyerarchies: type, system, norm, speech. Language architecture. Language functioning.

Text and context. Historical vs. functional language. Language functional varieties. The nature and types of language changes. Creativeness in language.

Recommended reading: Coşeriu, Eugen, Sincronie, diacronie şi istorie. Problema schimbării lingvistice, Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 1997; Coşeriu, Eugen, Lecţii de lingvistică generală, Editura Arc, 2000;

Martinet, André, Elemente de lingvistică generală, Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1970; Moeschler, Jacques şi Auchlin, Antoine, Introducere în lingvistica contemporană, Cluj, Editura Echinox, 2005; Saussure, Ferdinand de, Curs de lingvistică generală, Iaşi, Polirom, 1998

Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis, seminar project work Assessment methods: examination

Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: The Technique of Editing Old Texts Course code: MLB0812

Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Gafton

Course objective: Theoretical approach of the knowledge previously acquired during the following courses:

Introduction to Philology, Romanian Cyrillic Paleography and History of the Romanian Language. Practical approach to learning techniques of editing texts in order to acquire abilities to provide text editions. Beside a good command of language and theoretical knowledge necessary to a text editor, students will finally be familiar to the philological labour of editing texts, having already acquired the practical skills and knowledge necessary to a good text editor. The main objective focuses on practice, i.e. the capacity and quality level of producing texts.

Course contents: Lectures and mainly interactive discussions on theoretical themes leading to the clarification of practical issues raised by students. The main plan is to provide a micro edition of texts, all efforts making their way to acquiring skills necessary to a first class edition.

Recommended reading: Gheţie I., Mareş Al., Originile scrisului în limba română, Bucureşti, 1985; Keraval P., Le langage écrit, ses origines, son développement et son mécanisme intellectuel, Paris, 1897; Oprea Ioan, Introducere în filologie, Suceava, 2000; Philippide A., Opere alese, Bucureşti, 1984; Russo D.D., Critica textelor şi tehnica ediţiilor, Bucureşti, 1912

Teaching methods: lecture, presentations, discussions and work on text editions, seminar project paper, reviews on text editions

Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation, project work, seminar participation) Language of instruction: Romanian

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Course title: The Dynamycs of Morphosyntax Course code: MLB0813

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Luminiţa Cărăuşu

Course objective: Provide students with the relevant features of the lexico-grammatical classes; grammatical categories specific to each part of speech.

Course contents: Morphosyntax of the noun, adjective, pronoun, numeral, verb, adverb and interjection.

Recommended reading: Gramatica limbii române, vol 1, Cuvântul, vol al 2-lea, Enunţul, Editura Academiei, Bucureşti, 2005; Guţu-Romalo, Valeria, Sintaxa limbii române. Probleme şi interpretări, Editura didactică şi pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1973; Hoarţă Lăzărescu, Luminiţa, Probleme de sintaxă a limbii române, Editura Cermi, Iaşi, 1999; Hoarţă Lăzărescu, Luminiţa, Sinonimia şi omonimia gramaticală în limba română, Editura Cermi, Iaşi, 1999; Hoarţă Cărăuşu, Luminiţa, Dinamica morfosintaxei şi pragmaticii limbii române actuale, Editura Cermi, 2007

Teaching methods: lecture

Assessment methods: examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Principles and Techniques of Linguistic Analysis Course code: MLB0814

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Eugen Munteanu

Course objective: Thorough study of the main concepts and distinctions of the text linguistics; acquire and practice the skills to interprete and analyze biblical texts from a historical, philological, linguistic perspective.

Course contents: 1. The theory of texts of Coseriu. Inter- and intratextual comparison 2. The biblical text, ideal for the diachronic and comparative study of language evolution. 3. Central moments of the Romanian biblical tradition. 4. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the phonetic level. 5 The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the morphological level. 6. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the semantic and lexical levels. 7. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the phraseological level. 8 The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the syntactic level.

Recommended reading: Eugenio Coseriu, Textlinguistik. Eine Einführung, Franke, Tübingen/ Basel, 1994; Eugen Coşeriu, Lingvistică din perspectivă spaţială şi antropologică. Trei studii, “Ştiinţa”, Chişinău, 1994; Eugen Coşeriu, Sincronie, diacronie şi istorie. Problema schimbării lingvistice, Editura Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1997;

Eugen Munteanu, Lexicologie biblică românească, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2006; *** Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum — Biblia 1688, vol. I, Iaşi, 1988

Teaching methods: lecture, exercise, debate

Assessment methods: seminar participation, final written examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Lexical Dynamics Course code: MLB0815

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Ana Maria Minuţ

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Course objective: Analyze the dynamics of the Romanian vocabulary, as shown by the latest dictionaries, in the written and audio-visual press, in the spoken language

Course contents: Productivity of the internal devices to improve the vocabulary; new and old techniques in suffix and prefix derivation; thematic (scientific) composition; abbreviations (acronyms) in present-day Romanian; conversion in present-day Romanian; recent borrowings; the dynamics of meaning; types of semantic changes, normative aspects.

Recommended reading: Angela Bidu-Vrănceanu, Narcisa Forăscu, Limba română contemporană. Lexicul, Bucureşti, 2005; Adriana Stoichiţoiu-Ichim, Vocabularul limbii române actuale. Dinamică, influenţe, creativitate, Bucureşti, 2001; Vasile Şerban, Ivan Evseev, Vocabularul românesc contemporan. Schiţă de sistem, Timişoara, 1978; Petru Zugun, Ana-Maria Minuţ, Formarea cuvintelor. Teorie şi practică, Iaşi, 2005

Teaching methods: interactive lecture; practical exercises during seminars

Assessment methods: Mixed (term examination: 50%; final examination: 50% / term written examination 70%, ongoing evaluation 30% / final written examination 30%, oral examination 30%, ongoing evaluation 10%, term project work 30%)

Course title: Linguistic Policies in the Evolution of the Literary Romanian Language Course code: MLB0821

Year of study: 1^st Semester: 2^nd

Course objective: The study of the historical dynamics of the literary Romanian language, in relation to the dominant mentalities of the time, theoretical orientation and strategic decisions of the cultural agents involved in the process of self-defining the elevated variety of the Romanian language.

Course contents: 1. The beginnings of a written tradition. Searching for a national identity. 2. Delineating the Latin-Romance and pro-western identity. The Transylvanian School. 3. The militant romanticism. Ion Eliade Rădulescu’s reform. The writers’ role. The way to modernism and Occidentalism. 4. Building an institutional framework by the foundation of the Romanian Academy. Confrontation between the Latinizing purism and the national-popular trend. Maiorescu’s critics. 5. The new priorities of the linguistic policy induced by the foundation of Greater Romania. Political orientation of the genesis of the Romanian language. 6. Language problems between proletarian internationalism and the national-communist ideology. 7. Post-communist period.

Weakening of the institutional authority in language cultivation and norming. The challenges of globalization and postmodernism.

Recommended reading: Gh. Bulgăr, Problemele limbii literare în concepţia scriitorilor români. Antologie, studiu introductiv, comentarii, glosar, Bucureşti, 1966; Mariana Costinescu, Normele limbii literare în gramaticile româneşti, Bucureşti, 1979; Helmuth Frisch, Relaţiile dintre lingvistica română şi cea europeană. O istorie a lingvisticii româneşti din secolul al XIX-lea, Bucureşti, 1995; Iorgu Iordan (ed.), Istoria lingvisticii româneşti, Bucureşti, 1978; Eugen Munteanu, Dinamica istorică a cultivării instituţionalizate a limbii române, în

“Revista română”, Iaşi, anul IV, nr. 4 (34), decembrie 2003, p. 6 (I), nr. 1 (35), martie 2004, p. 7 (II); nr. 2, iunie 2004, p. 6 (III); nr. 3, octombrie 2004, p. 6 (IV); nr. 4 (38), decembrie 2004, p. 6 (V)

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, exercise

Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final written examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Semiotics and Communication Course code: MLB0822

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Secrieru

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Course objective: Provide students with knowledge to understand the foundation of the semiotic research on language; rouse students’ interest in different issues approached from semiotic perspectives; develop students’

skills to hold a discourse on a certain topic, by writing individual project papers; develop students’ skills to present briefly and argue on a certain topic.

Course contents: Semiotics and communication are interrelated subjects. Semiotics is a general theory of signs.

Communication is a general theory of sign production. They both explore the theoretical and practical possibilities and social functions of all the sign phenomena.

Recommended reading: Jean-Marie Klikenberg, Iniţiere în semiotica generală, Institutul European, 2004, cap. I, IV, VII; Umberto Eco, Tratat de semiotică generală, Editura ştiinţifică şi enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1982; Winfried Noth, Handbuch der Semiotik, J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1985; Paul Cobley, Litza Jansz, Cîte ceva despre semiotică, Editura Curtea veche, 2004

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, Power Point presentation Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation, term examination) Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Romanian Language and Literature Teacher Training Course code: MLB0823

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Secrieru

Course objective: Familiarize students with the research objective and methods of the subject and the related metalanguage, help them plan a university curriculum of either Romanian Language or Romanian Literature, using different strategies, and other documents, such as evaluation and support documents, apply and evaluate, from different perspectives, various strategies as well as teaching-learning / assessment methods specific to linguistic subjects.

Course contents: Theoretical and methodological grounds of the science of Romanian Language and Literature Teacher Training. Present-day orientations to the European higher education field of Language Teaching.

University curriculum of the subject didactics. Planning the university course and seminar activities. European higher education standards. University Didactics of Romanian as a mother language vs. university didactics of the Romanian as a foreign language. Similarities and differences.

Recommended reading: Mihaela Secrieru, Prolegomene la o ştiinţă a didacticii limbii române, Revista Iniţieri didactice, nr. 1/2005, Iaşi, p. 7-11; Mihaela Secrieru, Posibilităţi de modelizare a pregătirii iniţiale a studenţilor prin didactica limbii române, Revista Iniţieri didactice, nr. 1/2005, Iaşi, p. 21-29; Mihaela Secrieru, Studiu privind rolul primelor lucrări de Didactica limbii şi literaturii române în statuarea metaştiinţei, Analele Universităţii Ştefan cel Mare, Suceava, 2006; Crişan, Alexandru, Curriculum-ul de limba maternă în Europa;

tendinţe actuale şi perspective, revista Limbă şi Literatură, 40, nr. 2, 1995, p. 118-129; Creţu Carmen, Teoria curriculum-ului şi conţinuturile educaţiei, Editura Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi, 2000

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, Power-Point presentation

Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation and project work 50 %, term examination 50%) Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Communication Theories and Practices Course code: MLB0824

Course objective: Students’ knowledge of the meaning of discourse and talk-in-interaction notions; various trends in talk-in-interaction analysis; the main concepts lying at the bottom of the ethnomethodological model in the conversation analysis: adjacency pairs, repairs, pre-sequences etc.

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Course contents: Definition of conversation; the conversation rules; trends in talk-in-interaction analysis;

discourse analysis vs conversation analysis; conversation analysis; ethnomethodological model; conversation organization; adjacency pairs; repairs; pre- sequences; pragmatic markers; classification of pragmatic markers;

discourse markers; classification of discourse markers.

Recommended reading: Moeschler, J., Reboul, Anne, Dicţionar enciclopedic de pragmatică, Editura Echinox, Cluj, 1999; Hoarţă Cărăuşu, Luminiţa, Elemente de analiză a structurii conversaţiei , Editura Cermi, Iaşi, 2003;

Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, Liliana, Conversaţia. Structuri şi strategii, Editura All Educational, Bucureşti, 1999; Ionescu- Ruxăndoiu, Liliana, Limbaj şi comunicare. Elemente de pragmatică lingvistică, Editura All Educational, 2003;

Hoarţă Cărăuşu, Luminiţa, Teorii şi practici ale comunicării, Editura Cermi, Iaşi, 2008 Teaching methods: lecture

Assessment methods: examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Diachronic Linguistics Course code: MLB0825

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Gafton

Course objective: Thorough study of the language evolution. Develop ways of thinking and evaluating from the diachronic evolutive perspective.

Course contents: a) Diachronic linguistics. A study subject, the necessity of its study, related fields, the main Schools. b) Research methods in diachronic linguistics. Principles of historical phonetics and linguistic geography; phonetical evolution; the concept of phonetic law. Problems raised by the dynamics of the norms.

Recommended reading: Gafton Al., Hipercorectitudinea, Iaşi, 2000; Grammont M., Traité de phonétique, Paris, 1933 ; Meillet A., Linguistique historique et linguistique générale, Paris, 1926 ; Philippide A., Opere alese, Bucureşti, 1984; specialized journals (AA, ALIL, AUB, AUI, AUT, BIFR, DR, GS, LR, SCL)

Teaching methods: interactive lecture, text analysis, problem-solving, debate on various topics, discussions Assessment methods: mixed (seminar participations, term project work, written examination)

2^ND YEAR OF STUDY Course title: General and Applied Linguistics

Course code: MLB0931 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Year of study: 2^nd Semester: 3^rd

Course objective: Thorough study of the concepts and methods of the contemporary, structural, generative and functional linguistics. Apply the acquired knowledge to text analysis.

Course contents: Traditional linguistics and modernist approaches. Specific differences in grammar and semantics. Generativism. Structural semantics. Lexematic, paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures. Lexical fields, classes and solidarities. Diachronic structural semantics. Cognitive semantics. Other orientations in the present-day linguistics: pragmatics.

Recommended reading: Chomsky, Noam, Cunoaşterea limbii, Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică,1996; Coseriu, Eugenio, L’homme et son language, Louvain-Paris, Édition Peeters, 2001; Coseriu, Eugenio, Teoria limbajului şi lingvistica generală. Cinci studii, Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2004; Lyons, John, Introducere în lingvistica teoretică, Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1995; Moeschler, Jacques şi Auchlin, Antoine, Introducere în lingvistica contemporană, Cluj, Editura Echinox, 2005

Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis, seminar project work Assessment methods: examination

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Course title: Linguistic Interferences and Contacts Course code: MLB0932

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Ioan Lobiuc

Course objective: Initiate and familiarize students with one of the most important existing fertile fields of research in today’s world linguistics.

Course contents: History of the subject; description of the fundamental concepts and types of linguistic contacts; linguistic interferences; contacts of the Romanian language with other idioms.

Recommended reading: Coşeriu, E., Lingvistica din perspectivă spaţială şi antropologică, Chişinău, 1994;

Lobiuc, I., Contactele dintre limbi, I, Iaşi, 1998, Casa Editorială Demiurg, Iaşi, 2004; Mackey, W. Fr., Bilinguisme et contact des langues, Éd. Klincksieck, Paris, 1976; Sala, Marius, Limbi în contact, Bucureşti, 1997; Weinreich, U., Languages in contact, Haga-Paris, 1953, 1963

Teaching methods: lecture, euristic conversation

Assessment methods: mixed (written and oral examination, seminar project work, ongoing evaluation) Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Persuasive Strategies in the Political and Journalistic Discourse Course code: MLB0933

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Ioan Milică

Course objective: Help students acquire and apply theoretical and methodological elements of pragmatics and text linguistics.

Course contents: Central themes in the research of the political and journalistic discourse: the linguistic act, between objectivity and subjectivity; the linguistic imaginary; the repeated discourse and the wooden language;

clichés and discourse innovations in publicity; the strategies of the sensational; the strategies of the manipulation; types of pragmatic-stylistic markers recurring in the two types of discourse.

Recommended reading: Cesereanu, Ruxandra, 2003, Imaginarul violent al românilor, Editura Humanitas, Bucureşti; Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, Liliana, 2003, Limbaj şi comunicare. Elemente de pragmatică lingvistică, Editura All Educational, Bucureşti; Rad, Ilie (coord.), 2007, Stil şi limbaj în mass-media din România, Editura Polirom, Iaşi; Zafiu, Rodica, 2004, Diversitate stilistică în româna actuală, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti; Zafiu, Rodica, 2007, Limbaj şi politică, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti

Teaching methods: problem-solving, debate, text analysis, team work Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation 50% + term paper 50%) Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Sociolinguistics Course code: MLB0934 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Iulia Nica

Course objective: familiarize students with the diastratic variations of the language; the social, practical, educational consequences; the norms of the spoken and literary language.

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Course contents: 1. The objective and field of sociolinguistics (SL). Definitions. Considering sociolinguistics an autonomous science. 2. The relationships of sociolinguistics with dialectology and the linguistic geography. 3–4.

Sociolinguistic perspective on language. 5–7. Themes of sociolinguistics. Principles, concepts, terminalogy. 8.

The argot, jargon and professional language from the sociolinguistic perspective. 9. The Romanian salutations from the sociolinguistic perspective. 10. The linguistic circumstances in Romania. 11. SL, linguistic planning and policy. The Romanian language in the neighbouring countries. 12–13. Applied sociolinguistics. School sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistic survey methods. 14. Aspects of sociolinguistics in antroponimy and toponymy.

Recommended reading: Marina Ciolac, Sociolingvisticǎ româneascǎ, Bucureşti, 1999; Eugen Coşeriu, Socio- şi etnolingvistica. Bazele şi sarcinile lor, în Lingvistica din perspectivă spaţială şi antropologică, Chişinău,

„Ştiinţa”; Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, Dumitru Chiţoran, Sociolingvistica. Orientări actuale, Bucureşti, EDP, 1975; Marica Pietreanu, Salutul în limba română. Studiu sociolingvistic, Bucureşti, EŞE, 1984; Françoise Thom, Limba de lemn, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 1993

Teaching methods: interactive lecture; seminar project work

Assessment methods: mixed (examination 50% + term project work 50%) Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Onomastics and Toponymy Course code: MLB0935

Course objective: familiarize students with the concepts and research methods of the field of proper names in the language system; develop students’ techniques to do research and lexicographic presentation of the Romanian toponyms and antroponyms.

Course contents: Theoretical elements of the proper names. The stage of the research on antroponymy and toponymy in Romania. Works and working instruments (syntheses, onomastic dictionaries). Stages in setting up the Romanian antroponymy. The antroponymic survey. Onomastic influences and trends. The popular and official antroponymic systems. Genetic stratification of the Romanian toponymy. Popular and official toponymy. Urban toponymy. The toponymic survey. The concept of toponymic field and the processes of structuring the toponymic fields. Types of toponymic dictionaries.

Recommended reading: Constantinescu, N. A., Dicţionar onomastic românesc, Bucureşti, 1963; Drăganu, Nicolae, Românii în veacurile IX–XIV pe baza toponimiei şi a onomasticei, Bucureşti, 1933; Iordan, Iorgu, Dicţionar al numelor de familie româneşti, Bucureşti, 1983; Iordan, Iorgu, Toponimia românească, Bucureşti, 1963; Tomescu, Domniţa, Numele de persoană la români. Perspectivă istorică, Bucureşti, 2001

Teaching methods: lecture, analysis of onomastic corpus Assessment methods: examination

Course title: Morphosyntax of Old Romanian Language Course code: MLB0941

Year of study: 2^nd Semester: 4^th

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6

Name of the lecturer: Constantin Frâncu, Ana Maria Minuţ

Course objective: The study of the morphologic and syntactic levels in the hierarchy of the old Romanian language system

Course contents: Successive development stages of the morphologic and syntactic norms between 1532 - 1780;

the classification of morphological and syntactic aspects in two tendencies: the tendency of simplification, reduction of contrasts, which is economically motivated, and the tendency to extension, clarification of

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expression; the analysis of the syntactic phenomena according to internal or external factors; the emergence and definition of over-dialectal literary norms.

Recommended reading: Constantin Frâncu, Conjunctivul românesc şi raporturile lui cu alte moduri, Casa Editorială Demiurg, Iaşi, 2000; Alexandru Gafton, Evoluţia limbii române prin traduceri biblice din secolul al XVI-lea, Editura Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi, 2001; Ion Gheţie (coordonator), Istoria limbii române literare. Epoca veche (1532-1780), Editura academiei Române, Bucureşti, 1997; Ana-Maria Minuţ, Morfosintaxa verbului în limba română veche, Editura Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi, 2002; Ştefan Munteanu, Vasile Ţâra, Istoria limbii române literare. Privire generală, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1983

Teaching methods: interactive lecture, text analysis, debate

Assessment methods: mixed (written examination 50% + term project work 50%) Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Lexical Semantics Course code: MLB0942

Course objective: Provide students with the main concepts and distinctions in the lexical semantics. Develop and train students’ skills and techniques of correctly analyzing the semantic level of languages.

Course contents: 1. General semantics. 2. Theoretical orientations in the lexical semantics. 3. Fundamental concepts and distinctions; sense, reference, designation. 4. The structure of a language vocabulary. 4. The semantic definition of the word. 5. The syntagmatic analysis of lexemes. 6. The paradigmatic analysis of lexemes. 7. The analysis of the components. 8. The principles of Coseriu’s functional semantics: the functionalist principle, the principle of opposition, the systematicity principle, the principle of neutralization. 8.

The semantic changes. Coseriu’s diachronic semantics. Ethymology. 9. Phenomena of semantic interlinguistic transfer: lexical borrowing, semantic borrowing or lexical calque of the signified. 10. Perspectives. The cognitive semantics. Semantics and informatics, possible interferences.

Recommended reading: Bidu-Vrănceanu, Angela/ Forăscu, Narcisa, Modele de structurare semantică. Cu aplicaţii la limba română, Timişoara, 1984; Bucă, Marin/ Evseev, Ivan, Probleme de semasiologie, Timişoara, 1976; Coseriu, Eugenio, Einführung in die strukturelle Betractung des Wortschatzes, Tübingen, 1970; Coşeriu, Eugen, Simbol, semn, cuvînt, tom. XXXIX (1993), secţ. 3-lingvistică, p. 5-22; Coşeriu, Eugen, Semantica cognitivă şi semantica structurală, în vol. Eugen Coşeriu, Prelegeri şi conferinţe (1992—1993), Iaşi, 1994, p. 83—99;

Şăineanu, L., Încercare asupra semasiologiei române. Studii istorice despre tranziţiunea sensurilor, Bucureşti, 1887

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, exercise

Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final written examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Pragmatics Course code: MLB0943 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Course objective: Provide students with the main concepts of pragmalinguistics.

Course contents: The field of linguistic pragmatics; deixis; conversation implicatures; presuppositions; the theory of the acts of language.

Recommended reading: Levinson, St.C., Pragmatik, Tübingen, 1994; Schlieben-Lange, Brigitte, Linguistische pragmatik, Stuttgart, 1979; Searle, J.R., Speech acts, Cambridge, 1969.

Strawson, P.F., Philosophical logic, Oxford, 1971; Hoarţă Cărăuşu, Luminiţa, Pragmalingvistică. Concepte şi taxinomii, Editura Cermi, Iaşi, 2004

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Teaching methods: lecture, discussion Assessment methods: examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Ethnolinguistics Course code: MLB0944 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Course objective: Integrate students’ knowledge on the history of language, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics and stylistics into a diachronic and comparative approach of the Romanian language in relation with the culture and civilisation of the Romanian people.

Course contents: 1. The field of ethnolinguistics. Its relationships with ethnology, sociolinguistics and dialectology. The Dacian civilisation, the Romanization, ruralization and christianization of Dacia. Linguistic evidence. 2-3. Onomasiologic fields, terminology and idioms in ethnolinguistics. The Middle Ages and the Modern Ages. 4-5. Social and administrative structures and rapports. 6. Family and kinship. 7-8. Time. Calendar customs.

9. Medicina Popular medicine. Culinary practice. 10. The folk costume, styles and garments. The daily life. 11- 12. Ethnical identity and alterity. Perception of foreigners. Comparative linguistic perspectives.

Recommended reading: Eugen Coşeriu, Socio- şi etnolingvistica. Bazele şi sarcinile lor, în vol. Lingvistică din perspectivă spaţială şi antropologică, Chişinău, 1994; Stelian Dumistrăcel, Până-n pînzele albe. Expresii româneşti, Iaşi, 2001; Lazăr Şăineanu, Încercare asupra semasiologiei limbei române, Bucureşti, 1887; Zamfira Mihail, Etimologia în perspectivă etnolingvistică, Bucureşti, 2000; * * * Instituţii feudale din ţările române.

Dicţionar, Bucureşti, 1988

Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis

Assessment methods: seminar paper, examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Present-day Psycholinguistics Course code: MLB0945

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Ioan Milică

Course objective: Provide students with recent theoretical and methodological elements of psycholinguistics.

Course contents: The presentation of the dominant tendencies in the today’s research: the theory of prototypes, the theory of the conceptual metaphor, the theory of the mental spaces, the cognitive stylistics and poetics. An increased focus on the theoretical concepts interested in the relation language – affectivity – thinking, emphasizing the linguistic creativity.

Recommended reading: Croft, William, D. Alan Cruise, 2005, Cognitive linguistics, Cambridge University Press, London; Evans, Vyvyan, Melanie Green, 2006, Cognitive linguistics: An introduction, Edinburgh University Press;

Pinker, Steven, 2007, The stuff of thought, Penguin Books; Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, 1999, Psiholingvistica. O ştiinţă a comunicării, Editura All, Bucureşti; Stockwell, Peter, 2002, Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, Routledge, London

Teaching methods: problem-solving and debate, team work

Assessment methods: mixed (written examination 60% + term project work 40%) Language of instruction: Romanian

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ROMANIAN LITERATURE AND LITERARY HERMENEUTICS 1^ST YEAR OF STUDY

Course title: Literary Poetics and Hermeneutics Course code: MLT0811

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Nicolae Cretu

Course objective: Familiarize students with various critical approaches to the literary work.

Course contents: The objective of literary studies: an interpretation of the text. Important moments in the history of text interpretation. Significant trends in the literary research during the last decades. Contemporary criticism. New ways of understanding the literary work. Trends in criticism during the last decades. Poetics, semiotics and semiology in the literary research. Opportunities offered by the new methods. Textual analysis and cultural analysis. Literary hermeneutics vs. semiotics and semiology. The current standing of hermeneutics as a subject of interpretation. Literary hermeneutics, a permanently replenishing subject.

Recommended reading: René Wellek, Istoria criticii literare moderne, vol. 1-4, Ed. Univers, Bucureşti, 1974- 1979; Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adevăr şi metodă, E. Teora, Bucureşti, 2001; Constantin Pricop, Marginea şi centrul, Ed. Cartea românească, Bucureşti, 1990; M. Bahtin, Probleme de literatură şi estetică, Ed. Univers, Bucureşti, 1982; M. Bahtin, Metoda formală în ştiinţa literaturii, Ed. Univers, Bucureşti, 1992

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: written examination

Course title: Modernist and Postmodernist Romanian Fiction Course code: MLT0812

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Antonio Patraş

Course objective: Provide students with notions of aesthetics, history and literary critics for an adequate comprehension of the analyzed works.

Course contents: Description of the ideological context which incurs the emergence of literary-aesthetic doctrines and trends specific to modernism / postmodernism; analysis of the representative works of Camil Petrescu, Blecher, Mateiu Caragiale, Urmuz, Ştefan Agopian, Mircea Nedelciu, Mircea Cărtărescu, Radu Aldulescu and others.

Recommended reading: Nicolae Manolescu, Arca lui Noe, Ed. Gramar, 1999; Radu G. Ţeposu, Viaţa şi opiniile personajelor, Ed. Cartea Românească, 1983; Nicolae Balotă, Romanul românesc în secolul XX, Ed. Viitorul Românesc, 1997; Liviu Petrescu, Poetica postmodernismului, Ed. Paralela 45, 1997; Mircea Cărtărescu, Postmodernismul românesc, Humanitas, 1999

Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate, text analysis Assessment methods: written and oral examination

Course title: Modernist and Avant-garde Romanian poetry Course code: MLT0813

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Name of the lecturer: Emanuela Ilie

Course objective: Thorough study of the modernist, avant-garde and postmodernist Romanian poetry;

strengthen students’ skills to analyze, interprete, evaluate and rank the works of the prominent writers in the field.

Course contents: Key-concepts: modernism, avant-garde, postmodernism and their distinct implications in poetry. Representative authors in the period between the two World Wars: Bacovia, Blaga, Arghezi, Ion Barbu and others. The historical avant-garde and its extensions: Vinea, Tzara, Voronca, Fundoianu, Gellu Naum, Virgil Mazilescu and others. Resurrection of the ballad: Doinaş, R. Stanca. A recluse: E. Botta. Modernist and postmodernist authors after the two World Wars: Stănescu, Sorescu, I. Mălăncioiu, C. Ivănescu, M. Dinescu, M.

Ursachi, E. Brumaru, I. Mureşan, M. Cărtărescu, Ş. Foarţă, Ioan Es. Pop and others. Analyses and evaluations in the European and world contexts.

Recommended reading: Hugo Friedrich, Structura liricii moderne; Adrian Marino, Modern, modernitate, modernism; Matei Călinescu, Conceptul modern de poezie; Nicolae Manolescu, Despre poezie; Dan C. Mihăilescu, Întrebările poeziei

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, exercises, problem-solving

Assessment methods: seminar participation, term project work, written and oral examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: The Hermeneutics of Modernist Poetry Course code: MLT0814

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Lăcrămioara Petrescu

Course objective: Study of the nature of the hermeneutic interpretative act in poetry; relate the modernist paradigm to the traditional models.

Course contents: The history of the literary hermeneutics, important moments. Theories on the specificity of works, the primacy of the text in the literary discovery/interpretation, reading the hermeneutic circle. The immanent analysis, the study of the objective structures of the text. Approaching the text, redefining its significations, the hermeneutic language. The relationship between work and its interpretation. “The Horizon of expectation” (Hans-Robert Jauss). The detachment, difference, alterity of the object in relation to its interpreter (Jean Starobinski). The historicity of the reading (“the fusion of the horizons”: Hans-Georg Gadamer) Recommended reading: Edgar Allan Poe, Principiul poetic, Editura Litera Internaţional, 2003; Paul Ricoeur, Eseuri de hermeneutică, Editura Humanitas, Bucureşti; Paul Ricoeur, Metafora vie, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1984; Jean Starobinski, Textul şi interpretul, Editura Univers, 1985; Paul Valéry, Théorie poétique et esthétique, trad. în Poezii. Dialoguri. Poetică şi estetică, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1989; Nicolae Manolescu, Despre poezie, Editura Cartea Românească, Bucureşti, 1987

Teaching methods: lecture, debate

Assessment methods: term project work, written and oral examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Literature and (Self)-Mirroring Course code: MLT0815

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Antonio Patraş

Course objective: Develop students’ skills to use notions of aesthetics, history and literary criticism for a proper understanding of the works they study.

Course contents: Ideological contexts producing the emergence of works which have a strong introspective tendency or convey a certain message. The novel of ideas and the essay. The literature of the critics, from Ibrăileanu and Lovinescu to G. Călinescu, Virgil Nemoianu, Matei Călinescu or Eugen Simion.

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Recommended reading: Genette, Palimpsestes, Seuil, 1982; Matei Călinescu, Cinci feţe ale modernităţii, Editura Univers, 1995; Virgil Nemoianu, O teorie a secundarului, Editura Univers, 1997; William Marx, Rămas bun literaturii, Editura România Press, 2008; Alex Matei, Ultimele zile din viaţa literaturii, Editura Cartea Românească, 2008

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: written and oral examination

Course title: The Poetics and Hermeneutics of the Novel Course code: MLT0821

Course objective: Familiarize students with the typology of the poetics of the modernist and postmodernist Romanian novel; the different types of the Romanian discourse. Strengthen students’ general vision on the evolution of the novel.

Course contents: The novel of introspection. The concept of objectivity and the subjective form of the narrative. The poetics of the character and the evolution of the Romanian genre. Theories of the characters:

Philippe Hamon, Vincent Jouve. The character of the novel and the descriptive device. The discourse strategies in creating the introspective character (Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu).

Recommended reading: Nicolae Manolescu, Arca lui Noe. Eseu despre romanul românesc, vol. I-III, Minerva, Bucureşti, 1981; Lăcrămioara Petrescu, Scena romanului, Editura Junimea, Iaşi, 2005; Liviu Petrescu, Poetica postmodernismului, Editura Paralela 45, 1998; Jean-Yves Tadié, Le roman au XXe siècle, Pierre Belfond, Paris, 1990; Mihai Zamfir, Cealaltă faţă a prozei, Editura Eminescu, Bucureşti, 1988

Course title: Romanian and Universal Folklore Motifs Course code: MLT0822

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Mircea Paduraru

Course objective: Familiarize students with the main coordinates of the Romanian folklore, ethnography and popular arts, with the various archaic meanings of each component analyzed and illustrate the relationships between the repertoire of the immaterial inheritance and written literature.

Course contents: Rites: variants, functions, meanings. The spirit of the field: zoomorphic and anthropomorphic representations. Ritual staging: the dead’s wedding; from rite to alegory. The ritual union. Archaic meanings and recoveries. The horse and the rider. Mythical-symbolic stages. The glass of life, the glass of death. From the goblet to the Holy Grail. The shelter between the two lands. Defining marks of the fairy tale. Vartici or K-2111.

Native versions of Putiphar’s woman.

Recommended reading: Petru Caraman, Excursul caduceului; Înfrăţirea rituală la popoarele sud-estului european şi originea ei traco-ilirică, în vol. Studii de folclor, III. Bucureşti, Minerva, 1995; Adrian Fochi, Femeia lui Putiphar (K-2111). Cercetare comparată de folclor şi literatură, Bucureşti, Univers, 1982; J.G. Frazer, Creanga de aur, Bucureşti, Minerva, vol.III, 1980 ; Gail Kligman, Nunta mortului. Ritual, poetică şi cultură populară în Transilvania, Iaşi, Polirom, 1998; V.I. Propp, Rădăcinile istorice ale basmului fantastic, Bucureşti, Univers, 1973

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: seminar participation, written examination Language of instruction: Romanian

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Course title: Drama Interpretation Course code: MLT0823

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Noemi Bomher

Course objective: Identify the characteristic elements of the modernist theatre and analyze the representative works for the metamorphosis of the dramatic language.

Course contents: The text loses its essential place. The scenic language and the metamorphosis of the dramatic language (after 1860: the disappearance of the romantic tirades; the appearance of the plays no longer written in verse). The exclusion of the declamation (the importance of the didascalies, the non-verbal and para-verbal cues). The space and object turned into scenic subjects, often combined with the criticism of the present times (e.g. suggestion to contemplate addressed to the audience, insertion of the ghost character etc). The fan effect of the theatrical performance. Developing another type of stage (architecture) and another type of spectator (the naive spectator and simultaneously initiated spectator). The resemblance to the ancient mysteries.

Recommended reading: Aristotel, Poetica, (cap.4; 1499 a, 10-11), Editura Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1957; plays written by Henrich von Kleist, A. Strindberg, Frank Wedekind, A. P. Cehov, Leonid Andreev, B. Shaw, B. Brecht, J. Genet, Pirandello, Giraudoux, E. Ionescu, M. Vişniec

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: project work

2^ND YEAR OF STUDY Course title: A Synthesis of Eminescu’s Work

Course code: MLT0931/MLT0941 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Year of study: 2^nd Semester: 3^rd, 4^th

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Doris Mironescu

Course objective: Comprehensive study of Eminescu’s work within the national and European context; exercise students’ skills to analyze the poetic language.

Course contents: Eminescu between ordinary and extraordinary. Eminescu and Junimea. His published works.

The romantic style of Eminescu's writing. His great poems published during his lifetime. His great poems published posthumously. Fiction. Dramas. The cultural horizon. Eminescu and religion. Politics and (publicistic) literature. Eminescu and his descendants.

Recommended reading: G. Călinescu, Opera lui Mihai Eminescu, vol. I-IV, Editura Minerva, 1985; Rosa Del Conte, Eminescu sau despre Absolut, Editura Dacia, Cluj, 1990; I. Negoiţescu, Poezia lui Eminescu, Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1995; Ioana Em. Petrescu, Eminescu – poet tragic, Editura Junimea, Iaşi, 2001; Iulian Costache, Eminescu. Negocierea unei idei, Editura Cartea Românească, Bucureşti, 2008

Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate, text analysis Assessment methods: seminar participation, written examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Literary Trends and Theories Course code: MLT0932

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Name of the lecturer: Ilie Moisuc

Course objective: Strengthen students’ knowledge on the main literary trends, laying emphasis on the aesthetic doctrines.

Course contents: Preliminary notions. Classicism: literary doctrine, literary art. Baroque in literature.

Romanticism: its dominants; universes and lyrical structures. Realism and naturalism. Symbolism; symbolist poetry. Avant-garde trends: Dadaism, surrealism. Postmodernism: doctrine elements; the Romanian postmodernism.

Recommended reading: Aristotel, Poetica, Editura Academiei, Bucureşti, 1965; Arte poetice. Romantismul., Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1982; René Wellek, Conceptele criticii, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1970; Ph. von Tieghem, Marile doctrine literare în Franţa, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1972; Mario de Micheli, Avangarda artistică a secolului XX, Editura Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1968

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: seminar participation, written examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: The Art of Criticism Course code: MLT0933

Course objective: the analysis of the critical discourse

Course contents: Literary criticism: institutionalized form of reception. Defining relations among the literary work and the critical text. Schools of criticism. Trends in interpretation. Hypostases and methodological options of the critical act. The structuralism and poststructuralism (a short history, its development).

Recommended reading: G. Călinescu, Tehnica criticii şi a istoriei literare, în Principii de estetică, EPL, 1968;

Albert Thibaudet, Fiziologia criticii. Pagini de critică şi de istorie literară, EPLU, Bucureşti, 1966; Romul Munteanu, Metamorfozele criticii europene, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1988; Jean-Yves Tadié, La Critique littéraire au XXe siècle, Pierre Belfond, 1987

Course title: The Poetics and Hermeneutics of the Short Story Course code: MLT0934

Course objective: The analysis of the short narrative forms in the Romanian literature of the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Course contents: The Romanian fiction in the 19^th century and the first half of the 20^th century. The characteristics of the short genre. Fiction forms: the literary physiology, the sketch story, the short story, the novella. Stylistic-thematic registers: romanticism, realism, fantastic. The poetics of the novella and its relation to the other short narrative forms. Novella vs. novel. Time and space in the novella fiction. Characters. Authors to be studied: C. Negruzzi, Ion Ghica, I. Heliade-Rădulescu, M. Eminescu, I. L. Caragiale, I. Creangă, I. Slavici, Gala Galaction, V. Voiculescu.

Recommended reading: Al. Călinescu, Caragiale sau vîrsta modernă a literaturii, Editura Albatros, Bucureşti, 1976; Paul Cornea, Originile romantismului românesc, Editura Minerva, Bucureşti, 1972; Sergiu Pavel Dan, Proza fantastică românească, Minerva, Bucureşti, 1975; Vasile Popovici, Eu, personajul, Editura Cartea Românească, Bucureşti, 1988; Eugen Simion, Proza lui Eminescu, Editura pentru Literatură, Bucureşti, 1964

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Course title: National, European, Universal Course code: MLT0942

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Bogdan Creţu

Course objective: Underline the distinctive accents of the Romanian literature in the European and world context shaping the image of the Romanian ethnocultural identity.

Course contents: Identity and openness, national specificity, substantial modernism and open tradition.

Europeanism vs. Europocentrism. World literature (Weltliteratur), comparative literature and imagology, general literature. National cultures vs. globalization, regionalization. Necessary openings to small exotic cultures. Masterpieces of the Romanian novel in an open dialogue with key-works of the world literatures written by great authors: V. Woolf, E. M. Forster, Th. Mann, Lampedusa, Buzzatti, Faulkner, Camus, Broch, Kazantsakis, Marquez, Cortazar, Kundera, Hrabal, Kadare, Soljeniţîn, Aitmatov, Lobo Antunes, Yukio Mishima, Naghib Mahfouz and others.

Recommended reading: G. Luckacs, Teoria romanului; W. C. Booth, Retorica romanului;

Marian Popa, Homo fictus; N. Manolescu, Arca lui Noe; Al. Protopopescu, Romanul psihologic românesc Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate, text analysis

Assessment methods: written and oral examination Language of instruction: Romanian

Course title: Romanian Fantastic Prose Course code: MLT0943

Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA Year of study: 2^nd Semester: 4^th

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Emanuela Ilie

Course objective: Identify the distinctive features of the fantastic in the Romanian and world literature;

theories of the fantastic from the viewpoint of studies on the imaginary. Develop students’ skills to compare and analyze different types of narrative texts.

Course contents: The need of the fantastic from a metaphysical perspective. Generic contextual motivations to resort to the fantastic. Criticism of studies from the proposed bibliography. Sources of the fantastic:

imagination, dream, hallucination, madness. Function of the fantastic. The relations of the fantastic with: the magic, dream, grotesque, macabre, absurd and others. Forms of the fantastic discourse. The fantastic props.

Fantastic and outer alterity, fantastic and inner alterity. Fantastic representations in the world and Romanian literature. The dual as a fantastic alterity in the Romanian literature.

Recommended reading: Beşteliu, Marin, Realismul literaturii fantastice, Craiova, 1975; Biberi, Ion, Fantasticul, atitudine mentală, în Eseuri literare, filosofice şi artistice, Editura Cartea Românească, Bucureşti, 1982;

Caillois, Roger, De la feerie la science-fiction, în Eseuri despre imaginaţie, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1975;

Sergiu Pavel Dan, Proza fantastică românească, Bucureşti,1975; Todorov, Tzvetan, Introducere în literatura fantastică, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1973

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, discussions, case study, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: term project work, examination

Course title: Romanian Ideas and Attitudes in the History of Culture Course code: MLT0944

Type of course: compulsory

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Level of course: MA Year of study: 2^nd Semester: 4^th

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Nicolae Cretu

Course objective: Presentation of literary cultural ideas characteristic to the Romanian cultural space.

Course contents: The critical spirit (The evolution of the general critical spirit. The critical spirit in the Romanian culture: Ibrăileanu, Lovinescu. The evolution of the Romanian literary criticism. From general criticism and culture to the aesthetic criticism). Literary history and literary criticism in the Romanian cultural space. Criticism and value (Vianu’s contributions to the study of the value concept. The idea of value in the Romanian cultural context).

National specificity (The general evolution of the concept. Viewpoints on the specificity issue: the German model, the French model. The evolution of the specificity issue in the Romanian culture). Modernism vs. Postmodernism.

Recommended reading: Călinescu, G., Istoria literaturii române. De la origini până în prezent, Editura Minerva, Bucureşti, 1982; Călinescu, G., Principii de estetică, E.P.L., Bucureşti, 1968; Ibrăileanu, G., Spiritul critic în cultura românească, “Viaţa românească”, Iaşi, 1922; Lovinescu, E., Istoria literaturii române contemporane (1900 - 1937), în Scrieri 6, ediţie de Eugen Simion, Editura Minerva, 1975; Constantin Pricop, Seducţia ideologiilor şi luciditatea criticii. Privire asupra criticii literare româneşti din perioada interbelică, Editura Integral, Bucureşti, 1999

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis Assessment methods: written examination

WORLD AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1^ST YEAR OF STUDY

Course title: Comparative Literature (I) Course code: MLC0811, MLC0821 Type of course: compulsory Level of course: MA

Year of study: 1^st Semester: 1^st, 2^nd

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6 Name of the lecturer: Constantin Dram

Course objective: Students will comment on an imaginary type, decisive for the future evolution of the human culture, identifying images, symbols, narrative structures, types of mentality, as well as relations born among them and the new structures of the imaginary supplying the modern endowment of mankind, which has a great impact on art in general, literature in particular. Engage students’ interest in two priority relations: medieval imaginary – romanticism; medieval imaginary – postmodernism.

Course contents: 1. Person-personality-character. History and literary fiction. 2. Fantasy and reality, real worlds/possible worlds. 3. The conflict of images and universality of archetypes. 4 Models of narratives. The dialogue between the East and the West. 5. From the Indian castles to the European tripartite model. The models of social imaginary reflected in literature. 6. The medieval knight – a transcendent symbol. 7. The beginning of a strange ideology. Amour courtois and its literary implications. 8. Continuity in novels. Structures of the chivalric romance. 9. The king: myth and symbol. 10. Private life, mentalities and narrative. 11. The image of the town, embezzlement of the medieval universe. 12. Romanticism and re-discovery of a medieval imaginary. 12. The reception of the medieval imaginary, paradoxes of an ex controversial. 13. Renaissance and the Middle Ages. 14. Re-shaping some models. Postmodern chivalry.

Recommended reading: Georges Duby, Evul mediu masculin; Aaron Gurjewitsch, Individul în Evul mediu European; Johan Huizinga, Amurgul Evului Mediu; Erich Kohler, L’aventura cavalleresc; Jacques Le Goff, Omul medieval şi Imaginarul medieval; Jean Markale, L’amour courtois ou le couple infernal.

Teaching methods: lecture, debate, term project paper, seminar project work

Assessment methods: mixed (oral and written: active seminar participations 20%, seminar project work 40%, term project paper 40%)