BA Exam, English, 2018

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Language

1. Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, A Grammar of

Contemporary English, London: Longman (orice ediţie).
2. Cook, Vivian and Mark Newson, Chomsky's Universal Grammar, Blackwell
Publishers, 1996.

B. Literature

(I) Reading List:

1. Beowulf (orice ediţie; ediţie preferată: Beowulf. A Verse Translation, ed. Daniel
Donoghue, tr. Seamus Heaney, Norton, 2002).
2. G. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Prologue and Tale, The Miller’s
Prologue and Tale, The Reeve’s Prologue and Tale (orice ediţie; ediţie preferată:
The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson, Oxford UP, 1987, 3rd edn 2008).
3. William Shakespeare, The Sonnets (orice ediţie; ediţie preferată: ed. Stephen Booth,
Yale UP, 1977, 2nd edn. 2000).
4. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (orice ediţie; ediţie preferată: The Arden
Shakespeare, 3rd series, ed. René Weis, 2012).
5. John Donne, ‘The Flea’
6. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
7. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
8. Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling
9. William Congreve, The Way of the World
10. Blake, William, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
9. Wordsworth, William, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (with “Preface”)
10. Shelley, „Ode to the West Wind”
11. Keats, „Ode to a Nightingale” (The recommended anthology is The Norton Anthology
to English Literature, vol. II, 2000)
12. W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
13. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
14. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
15. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
16. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (and the Preface to “The Nigger of the Narcissus”
at<http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/conrad/joseph/c75nn/preface.html>
18. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
19. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (ediţie preferată, with an
Introduction and Notes by Seamus Deane. London: Penguin, 2000)
20. Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
21. Ernest Hemingway, The sun also rises
22. William Faulkner, The bear

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23. Jack Kerouac, On the road
24. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

(II) Secondary sources:

1. Tolkien, J.R.R., Beowulf. The Monsters and the Critics, în Beowulf. A Verse
Translation, ed. Daniel Donoghue, tr. Seamus Heaney, Norton, 2002
2. Lewis, C.S., The Allegory of Love, Oxford UP, 1958
3. McKeon, Michael, The Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach, Johns Hopkins
U.P., 2000
4. Eliot, T.S., "The Metaphysical Poets" in Selected Essays
5. Fisk Payne, Deborah, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre,
Cambridge U. P., 2000
6. Abrams, M.H., The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism, 1984
7. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran, 1993
8. Brînzeu, Pia, The Protean Novelists : the British novel from Defoe to Scott. Timisoara:
Tipografia Universitatii de Vest din Timisoara, 1995 cota Engl. 19037
9. Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1987. Cota Engl. 17733
10. Galea, Ileana, Victorianism and Literature. Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 2000
11. Horsman, Alan, The Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990
12. Robert Caserio, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel,
Cambridge University Press, 2009
13. Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls, eds.,The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century
English Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2009
14. Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction in 20th Century English Critical Essays. Selected,
with an Introduction by Phyllis M. Jones. London: Oxford University Press, 1935
Online source: <http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/chapter13.html> )
15. Ruland, Richard, Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History
of American Literature, Penguin, 1991