2nd year - Modules 2012-2013

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Term I

(12 hours / 14 weeks)

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PERSPECTIVES ON MODERNITY (I):

MODELS OF CULTURAL HISTORY
Mihaela Irimia
2 C (5 credits)

PERSPECTIVES ON MODERNITY (II):

TRANSACTIONS OF
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Sorana Corneanu
2 S (4 credits)
RELIGIOUS VALUES AND INSTITUTIONS
IN BRITISH CULTURE
Ioana Gogeanu
2 S (4 credits)
DISCOURSE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE:
PLACE AND TIME IN CULTURAL TEXTS
Irina Pan
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2 C (5 credits)
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (I):
Daria Protopopescu
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2 S (4 credits)
MEDIA COMMUNICATION:
ADVERTISING
Mihaela Precup
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2 S (3 credits)

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Term II

(12 hours / 10 weeks)

TRANSLATION- TRANSNATIONALISMGLOBALIZATION
Mdlina Nicolaescu
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2 C (5 credits)
BRITISHNESS IN THE ARTS (II):
BRITISHNESS AND MUSIC
Alina Bottez
2 S (4 credits)
GROUPS AND PERSONS:
SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE
Radu Surdulescu
2 C (5 credits)
AREA STUDIES:
IMAGOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY
Monica Bottez
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2 C (5 credits)
(POST)COLONIALISM
AND (POST)COMMUNISM
Bogdan tefnescu
2 C (5 credits)
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (II):
LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL
COMMUNICATION
Mariana Nicolae
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2 C (5 credits)

1. Perspectives on Modernity:
Models of Cultural History
Module Supervisor: Prof. Mihaela Irimia

The recent discipline called Cultural History is a fascinating field of

interdisciplinary and interface nature whose main focus is analyzing
culture as a socio-historical conglomerate manifest and at work in
specific activities, rituals, protocols, in specialized institutions, for
specific aims and involving members of given human communities.
This module aims to look into a selection of such symbolic gestures
and institutions whose role in asserting and validating a given cultural
identity is undeniable. In so doing, it will focus on a number of British
cultural institutions accounting for what in the literature passes as
Britishness.
Various approaches to the matter will be informed by reputed scholars
work (e.g. Arthur Jakob Burckhardt, O. Lovejoy, Peter Burke, Andy
Warburg, Ernst Robert Curtius, Basil Willey, E.M.W. Tillyard, Carlo
Ginzburg, Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton et al. based on this a model
of cultural identity will be derived in the individual slots taught and the
presentations appended to them. Added to these visual illustrations,
conceptual debates, and angles of perception will be assembled into
the current module format.
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Title

1 - 2 Introduction:
What
Cultural History?

3-4

Towards
discipline

Description & Bibliography

Is A survey of the birth, development

andi developments of history as a
comprehensive discipline; the rise,
assertion and growth into prominence
of Cultural History.
Burke, Peter, What Is Cultural
History?, 2004, 1-30.
Kelley, Donald R., The Old
Cultural History, History of
the Human Sciences, 1996,
Vol. 9, No. 3, 101-126.
the
new Cultural History rises from the
of
Cultural traditional Culture et civilisation

History

perspective
in
French
culture,
Kultugeschichte in German Culture,
storia delle umane idee in Italian
culture all briefly presented here.
Burckhardt, Jakob, Introduction
to The Civilization of the
Renaissance in Italy (1990), 1922.
E.M.W. Tillyard, The Chain of
Being, in The Elizabethan World
Picture: A Study of the Idea of
Order in the age of
Shakespeare, Donne & Milton
(1942)

Elias, Norbert, On the

Sociogenesis of the Concepts of
Civilization and Culture, in
Elias, N., The Civilizaing Process,
2000, 3-40.
Intellectual
History
& As branches of history, Intellectual
and Cultural History have developed
Cultural History
their own specialized vocabulary and
practices each. While the former looks
at the worth and relevance of ideas in
given cultural contexts and within
systems of ideas in their internal
development, the latter dwells preeminently on contextualized activities.
Levine, Joseph M., Intellectual
History
as History, Journal of the
History of
Ideas, 66.2, 2005, 189-200.
Boutcher, Warren, The Analysis
of
Culture Revisited: Pure Texts,
Applied
Texts, Literary Historicisms,
Cultural
Histories, Journal of the History
of
Ideas, 64.3, 2003, 489-510.
Lovejoys History of Ideas Unit ideas questions and the later
and its consequences
critique of the Lovejoyan method from

a contextualist perspective.
Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Study of
the
History of Ideas, in Preston King
(ed.),
The History of Ideas: An
Introduction to
Method, 1983, 179-197.
Gunnell, John G. The Myth of the
Tradition, in The History of
Ideas: An
Introduction to Method, 1983,
233-255.
Cultural History and in Culture studied in conjunction with
Anthropo-Cultural(ist)
anthropological
operation:
the
Perspective
historical
anthropology
or
anthropological history move.
Burke, Peter, The Moment of
Historical
Anthropology in Burke, P., What
Is
Cultural History?, 2004, 30-48.
Lucas, John, Englishmen and
Citizens of
the World, in Lucas, J. England
and
Englishness (1991), 11-31.
Material History: Images
Material History, with which Cultural
History shares a special interest in
symbolic forms, deals with images and
their role in historical reconstruction.
Burke, Peter, Material Culture
through
Images in Eyewitnessing. The
Uses of
Images as Historical Evidence,
London:
Reaktion Books, 2001, 81-102.
Ginzburg, Carlo, Titian, Ovid,
and the
Sixteenth-Century Code for
Erotic
Illustration in Clues, Myths and
the
Historical Method, Baltimore:

Mentalities: Hell

The Johns Hopkins University

Press, 1992 (1989), 77-95.
Pointon, Marcia, Dangerous
Excrescences: Wigs, Hair and
Masculinity in Hanging the
Head: Portraiture and Social
Formation in Eighteenth-Century
England,
New
Have:
Yale
University Press, 1998, 107-140.
From visual representations we turn to
the mental cartographies investigated
by the Mentalities and New Historicist
schools, here instantiated by the
triptych of spiritual places: hell,
purgatory and paradise.
First: Hell. The cultural institution of
fear, its cathartic function, society
and the catalyst of collective and/or
individual apprehensions.

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Mentalities: Purgatory

Minois, Georges, Histoire des

Enfers,
1991; Istoria infernurilor,
Bucureti:
Humanitas, 1998, 11-32, 5470, 71-87,
245-249, 250-273.
Delumeau, Jean, La peur en
Occident
(XIVe XVIIIe sicles): Une cit
assige, 1978; Frica n
Occident
(secolele XIV-XVIII) O cetate
asediat, Bucureti:
Meridiane, 1986,
18-39.
Second: Purgatory. Cleansing as
redemption, the role of attained
punishment,
furbishing
the
inbetweenness of happiness and misery.

Le Goff, Jacques. La Naissance

du
Purgatoire, 1981, Naterea

Purgatoriului, Bucureti
Meridiane
1995,: Vol. 2, cap. 9, 191-257.
Greenblatt, Stephen, The Rights
of Memory in
Hamlet in
Purgatory, Princeton University
Press, 2002, 102-150.
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Mentalities: Paradise

Third: Paradise. The promise attained,

teleological dreams, happiness as
individual and/or collective spiritual
fulfillment; the artificial paradise
syndrome; the welfare state as
paradisiacal surrogate.

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The New paradigm

Material Culture

of

Delumeau,
Jean,
Grdina
desftrilor - O istorie a
Paradisului,
Bucureti:
Humanitas, 1997, 24-36, 37-65,
86-102,103-120, 135-151,184198.
Weber,
Max,
Die
protestantische Ethik und der
Geist des Kapitalismus, 1934,
Etica protestant i spiritul
capitalismului, Bucureti:
Humanitas, 1993, 158-182.
Material Culture in everyday objects,
habitat, clothes, food, drink. The
culture of le quotidien and its
values.

Elias, Norbert, Towards a

Theory
of
the
Civilizing
Process, in Elias, N., The
Civilizaing Process, 2000, 365380, 414-448.
Strong, Roy, Dinner Is Served,
in Strong, R., Feast: A History of
Grand Eating, 2003, 274-208.

2. PERSPECTIVES ON
MODERNITY:
TRANSACTIONS OF
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Sorana Corneanu
Description
The emotions have become a topic of intense research in a number of
fields, including, besides brain science or experimental psychology,
such humanistic domains as cultural anthropology, cultural and literary
history, or moral philosophy. Why we have come to pay attention to
this topic is a question which forms part of the intellectual history of
our own times. An inquiry into the ways we ask questions about our
emotional lives even as we live them is thus part of a history in the
making, which may help with our awareness of the intellectual life that
shapes our (late) modern culture.

This course aims to broach one recent line of investigation into the
topic of the human emotions which has several features: it is
anthropological without focusing on ethnic or social groups; it tries to
account for features of human nature while at the same time
acknowledging cultural and historical diversity; it is concerned with the
pathology of emotions but not in the sense of clinical psychology or
psychoanalysis; and it tries to account for the way in which emotions
may be subject not only to analysis, but also to cultivation and
evaluation. It has come to be called the philosophy of emotions, but
this is a philosophy which is deeply concerned with the ways we live
our lives, and takes cultural practices, media products or literature as
its object of analysis.
The first half of the course (units 3-7) will be mainly devoted to the
extended study of two recent contributions to this field (Roberts 2003
and Pugmire 2005). We will look at both their approach and at the
content of their analyses. In discussing particular emotions and the
various modern emotional pathologies, we will take our cue from these
works, but we will also enlarge the stock of case studies with examples
of our own. The second half of the course (units 8-12) will consist in
close analyses of several recent British novels, with an eye to the
question of the emotions as it is played out at all the textual and
contextual levels: the fictional world, authorial perspective, readerly
response, communal cultural values. The list is tentative, and students
proposals for alternative titles are welcome.

Title

Description & Bibliography

The question of the

emotions

Recent emergence of the emotions as

a topic of research in various fields of
the humanities. Why this new
development: a tentative intellectual
history of our times.
Barbara H. Rosenwein, Worrying
about Emotions in History, The
American Historical Review 107.3
(2002)
Andy Mousley, Re-Humanising
Shakespeare: Literary Humanism,
Wisdom and Modernity, Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2007,
Introduction

Approaches to the

Relevance of the topic to intellectual

emotions

history, literary history, cultural

anthropology, moral philosophy. The
question of cultural and historical
diversity vs. a stock of basic
emotions liable to conceptual
analysis.
Robert C. Roberts, Emotions: An Essay
in Aid of Moral Psychology, CUP,
2003, 180-192
David Pugmire, Sound Sentiments:
Integrity in the Emotions OUP,
2005, 1-29

Basic emotions (1)

Fear, anger, remorse, shame, sadness,

boredom, hatred, envy.
Roberts, Emotions, 193-263
[The reading load will be divided
into several manageable slots, to be
presented and discussed by
students. In addition to the case
studies analyzed in the text,
students are encouraged to think of
other examples which may reinforce
or challenge the authors
conclusions.]

Basic emotions (2)

Admiration, awe, pride, joy, hope,

love, surprise, vanity.
[The reading load will be divided
into several manageable slots, to be
presented and discussed by
students. In addition to the case
studies analyzed in the text,
students are encouraged to think of
other examples which may reinforce
or challenge the authors
conclusions.]
Roberts, Emotions, 264-313

The moral question

The relation between emotion and

moral character. Are emotions liable to
praise and blame? What do we praise
or blame when assessing emotional

responses? Can emotions be

educated? The Nietzchean alternative.
Roberts, Emotions, 314-352
Pugmire, Sound Sentiments, 30-64
Robert C. Solomon, The Joy of
Philosophy: Thinking Thin versus
the Passionate Life, OUP, 1999, 1737
6

Emotional vices (1)

Narcissism and sentimentality.

Pugmire, Sound Sentiments, 99-144
[The reading load will be divided
into several manageable slots, to be
presented and discussed by
students. In addition to the case
studies analyzed in the text,
students are encouraged to think of
other examples which may reinforce
or challenge the authors
conclusions.]

Emotional vices (2)

Cynicism and sophistication.

Pugmire, Sound Sentiments, 145-210
[The reading load will be divided
into several manageable slots, to be
presented and discussed by
students. In addition to the case
studies analyzed in the text,
students are encouraged to think of
other examples which may reinforce
or challenge the authors
conclusions.]

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9
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Love, friendship and

possession
Love, jealousy and
accident

Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (1978)

Emotional dissociation
and why it is sad

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of

the
Dog in the Night-time (2003)

Toby Litt, Corpsing (2000)

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12

Anguish and why it can be Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (2005)
so fun
Failure, sex and the
Tom Sharpe, Wilt (1976) and The Wilt
Alternative (1979)
academe

Further reading
Dixon, Thomas, From Passions to Emotions. The Creation of a Secular
Psychological Category, CUP, 2003
Gaukroger, Stephen (ed.), The Soft Underbelly of Reason. The Passions
in the Seventeenth Century, London and New York: Routledge, 1998
James, Susan, Action and Passion: The Emotions in SeventeenthCentury Philosophy, OUP, 1997
Kahn, Victoria et al. (eds.), Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850,
Princeton UP, 2006
Knuuttila, Simo, Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2004
Nussbaum, Martha C., The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in
Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, CUP, 2001
Nussbaum, Martha C., Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of
Emotions, CUP, 2001
Reddy, William B., The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the
History of Emotions, CUP, 2001
Shuger, Debora K., Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the
English Renaissance, Princeton UP, 1988
Sorabji, Richard (2000), Emotions and Peace of Mind: From Stoic
Agitation to Christian Temptation, OUP, 2000

3. Religious Values and

Institutions in British Culture
Dr. Ioana Gogeanu
The question of British identity has always been defined in relation
to that of European identity. During the early Middle Ages, a socially
and politically fragmented Europe was held together by the emerging

Christianity. This workshop will try to examine to what extent the

medieval inhabitants of the British Isles elaborated their own version of
Christianity and how this came to be in consonance with their identity.
Out investigation will take as an example the British contribution to the
cult of the Cross, which was one of the major cultic experiences that
came appeared during the Late Antiquity and continued to develop
steradily throughout the Middle Ages. The aim of the seminar is to
provide an interdisciplinary background consisting of elements of
history, theology, liturgy and iconography all of which will eventually
lead to a better understanding of the British, as well as European,
dimension of this practice. The workshop takes its departure from the
singularly arresting examples of the cult of the Holy Cross in medieval
British literature, that is, The Dream of the Rood or The Legends of the
Holy Cross and situates them at the crossroads of a multitude of
significant discourses, ranging from ecclesiastical histories to liturgies
and Latin hymnody.
The students will be expected to gain some considerable insight of
British as well as continental history, religious practices and literature
of this age. They will also have the opportunity to explore the link
between continental and British Christianity and to see how and why
Christian practices informed British mentality.
In this respect, the interdisciplinary frame, which encompasses
elements of history, theology, liturgy, and iconography, is devised to
provide several angles of discussion and addresses various students
holding BAs in different fields, including philology, of the humanities
interested in extending their previous knowledge.

Class Title
I

Content and bibliography

British identity at the The question of identity is approached in general

rise of the Middle
terms of British history in order to establish
Ages. Preliminary
some
guidelines.
The
nature
of
the
Discussion
contribution of Christianity in relation to the
constitution of Anglo-Saxon England is also
discussed.
Workshop structure, strategies and requirements
are worked out as well as the contents of the

workshop
portfolio.
Preliminary
written
analysis of The Dream of the Rood (modern
Emglish version)
Bibliography
Primary sources:
1. Anonymous, The Dream of the Rood in
Anthology of Old English Poetry, Ed. C.W.
Kennedy (1960)
Secondary sources:
1. MLA Handbook. Ed.J. Gibaldi (New York: MLA ,
1999)
2. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the
Middle Ages (Cambridge, CUP, 1998);
3. Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York:
Scribner, 1983), 13 vols.
4. Campbell,
J.
Ed.,
The
Anglo-Saxons,
(London:Penguin, 1991);
5. Wrenn, C. L, A Study of Old English Literature
(London, 1967)
II-III

The
coming
Christianity
Anglo-Saxon
England

of The question of the English medieval identity is

to
discussed against the background of the major
events that led to the disappearance of the
Roman empire and in relation to the Political
and religious legacy left by the empire. Then
an early constitution of Englishness is traced
back to the early records of the Anglo-Saxon
and Scandinavian invasions and to the
complex process of their conversion to
Christianity.
a. The emergence and rise of Christianity is
prepared by a brief overview of the major
problems with which the Roman Empire was
confronted during its last centuries. Special
emphasis is laid on reports and legends
connected to the personality of Constantine
the Great, as well as to the emergence of early
Christianity during the first four centuries
(hand-outs).
Teacher presentations: England and the Roman
world

Constantine the Great

Christian Roman testimonials in England

Student presentations: Constantine and the sign

of the Cross
- Eusebius, The Life of the Blessed
Constantine the Great
- Lactantius, Of the Manner in which
Persecutors Died
- Socrates
Scholasticus,
Ecclesisatical
History
b. The building up of Anglo-Saxon England and
the conversion of the first kings are studied on
the basis of historical records.
Student presentation: The Anglo-Saxons
- The Anglo Saxon invasions in Venerable
Bede
c. Christianity and England
- Christianity under the Romans; the
conversion of the Anglo-Saxons: Celtic
missionarism and the Roman mission of
St. Augustine of Canterbury;
- Main monastic personalities and monastic
centres;
- The contribution of Theodore of Tarsus
Student presentations: Anglo-Saxon Christianity
- The Roman mission of St. Augustine in
Venerable Bede
- Major scriptoria and their contribution:
Lindisfarne,
Iona
(student
individual
research)
Bibliography:
Primary sources:
1. Bede (Venerable), The Ecclesiastical History of
the English People Trans. Leo Sherley-Price
(London: Penguin, 1990);
2. Eusebius, Church History from A.D.1-324; The
Life of Constantine the Great in Nicene and
Post Nicene Fathers II, vol.1. Ed. P. Schaff
3. Socrates Scholasticus, Church History from
A.D.305-438 in Nicene and Post Nicene

Fathers II, vol.ii;

Secondary sources:
1. Brown, P., The World of Late Antiquity A.D.
150-750 (New York: Norton,1989)
2. Mayr-Harting, H., The Coming of Christianity to
AngloSaxon
3. England (London, 1991);
4. Blair, P., Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
(Cambridge: CUP, 1991)
5. Campbell, J., ed. The Anglo-Saxons (London:
Penguin, 1991)
IV-VI

The
early The discussion will follow and establish the major
understanding
of
occurrences of the cross in the vetero- and
the Cross :
novo-testamentary sources ; it will examine
(i) The Cross in the
the dissimulated symbolism of the cross
Bible
during the early stages of the underground
(ii) The Cross in the
church and later, in the early middle ages
apocryphal
The
(Teacher hand-outs)
Gospel
of
Nicodemus
(Acta Theological and iconographic particularities of
Pilati)
and
The
the early representations the Cross during the
Gospel of Peter
first centuries in Europe and in England
(iii) Early symbolism Teacher presentations: The early typology of the
of the Cross in the
Cross
Mediterranean and
- Crux realis and crux exemplata
in the British Isles
- Indirect representations of the Cross
- Early representations of Christ
(iv) Symbolism of the
- Early representations of the Crucifixion
Cross in relation to
Christ
and
the Student Presentations : Examples of early
Crucifixion
representations of the Cross
- J. Danielou, Primitive Christian Symbols
Bibliography
Primary sources:
1. The Bible
Secondary Sources:
1. Danielou, J., Primitive Christian
(Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1964)

Symbols

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The beginning and In addition to the theological interpretations of

spreading of the
the Cross, its importance of during the 4th c.,
cult of the Cross.
after what was mentioned as the discovery of
Early and
late
the Holy Cross (inventio sanctae crucis) by
medieval legends
Empress Helena. The controversial views are
of the Holy Cross.
also examined and mention is also made of a
complex version of the discovery that
circulated later in the Middle Ages in Jacobus
da Voragines Legenda aurea. A new impetus
was given to the cult under Emperor Heraclius,
in the 7th c.
The institution of the main
celebrations: of the Holy Cross
Teacher presentation: Early testimonials about
the Cross
- The inventio and the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem
Student presentations: The Holy Cross in
literature
- Eusebius, The discovery of the Holy Cross
- Venerable Bede, The Holy Sepulchre at
Jerusalem, EHBP
- J. Voragine, The Legend of the Holy Cross
in The Golden Legend.
Bibliography:
Primary sources:
1. Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of
the English People Trans. Leo Sherley-Price
(London:Penguin, 1990)
2. Eusebius, Church History from A.D.1-324; The
Life of Constantine the Great in Nicene and
Post Nicene Fathers II, vol.1. Ed. P. Schaff
3. Jacobus
de
Voragine,
Legenda
aurea.
Englished by W.Caxton (1483)
Secondary sources:
1. Drijijvers, J.W., Helena Augusta (Leiden: Brill,
1992)

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Theological
interpretations

of

During the early centuries the early Church

Fathers came to assign to the Holy Cross a

the
Meanings
Cross in
sources.

Cross.
of the
patristic

series of theological, cosmological, and

anthropological
significances, as a link
between heaven and earth, as permeating the
whole creation, as an sign of belonging to God
(hand-outs)

Theological
interpretations
of The significance of the Cross was indirectly
the Cross and the
affected by the theological controversies of
impact of heresies
the early ages, which also reflected in British
in the configuring
Christianity (hand-outs).
of the
Bibliography
The Holy Cross and Primary sources:
the heresies
1. Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of
the English People Trans. Leo Sherley-Price
(London: Penguin, 1990)
2. Basil the Great, The Great Catechism in
Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers II, vol. viii . Ed
P. Schaff
3. Justin Martyr, First Apology in Nicene and Post
Nicene Fathers I, vol.1.Ed.P.Schaff;
Secondary sources:
1. Pelikan, J., The Christian Tradition: A History of
the Development of Doctrine, 5 vols. (1973
1990). Vol. 1: The Emergence of the Catholic
Tradition 100600 (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1973).
X-XI The Cross in Liturgy
The sign of the Cross played an important part in
Baptismal liturgy and
the early liturgies as they came into being and
practices
were gradually articulated in the course of the
Easter
liturgy
and
first nine centuries in Europe. English liturgies
practices
and St. Augustines predicament as to ritual
practices are examined in the wider context of
the complex and different types of continental
liturgies (hand-outs).
.
An overview of the specific aspects of the Holy
Cross in baptismal liturgies. The baptism of
the adults. The importance of the practice in
Anglo-Saxon England as recorded in Bede
(hand-outs)
Teacher Presentations: Liturgical practices in the

early church
- Early baptismal rituals
- Specific aspects of Easter liturgies. The
improperia
Bibliography
Primary texts:
1. The Apostolic Constitutions
2. Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of
the English People Trans. Leo Sherley-Price
(London:Penguin, 1990)
Secondary texts:
1. Danielou, J., Biblie et liturgie (Paris: Les
Editions du Cerf, 1958)
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The Holy Cross in Special attention is required by the development

medieval
Latin
of Latin hyms dedicated to the Holy Cross
hymnody
during the Middle Ages. Of these the most
significant early ones are those written by
Venantius
Fortunatus,
which
were
subsequently included in the ritual of liturgy
(hand-outs).
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis prodeunt
Secondary Sources:
1. Walpole,
A.S.,
Early
(Hildesheim:Olms,1966)

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Latin

Hymns

Analysis of The Dream The study of the specific phenomenon of the

of the Rood and of
British stone crosses and of the particular form
the Ruthwell Cross
of the cult of the Cross practised in preNorman England can constitute a preamble to
the study of the Dreamof the Rood and of the
Legend of the Holy Cross. Several surviving
stone crosses, of like the Ruthwell Cross, the
Bewcastle Cross, and the Brussels Cross testify
of a strange link between Eastern and Western
Christianity. It is against this background that
the Vercelli text of The Dream of the Rood is
analysed from a variety of linguistic, historical,

authorial and especially generic perspectives

(hand-outs).
Teacher presentations
- Pre-Norman Stone Crosses
- The Vercelli book and the DoR ms.
General discussion and text analysis (student
roundtable)
Bibliography:
Primary Texts:
1. Anonymous, The Dream of the Rood. Ed. M.
Swanton (University of Exeter Press,1996);
2. Kennedy, C.W., Anthology of Old English
Poetry (1960).
Secondary Texts:
Galloway, A., Dream Theory in The Dream of the
Rood and The Wanderer, RES, 4:180 (1994;
Nov,) pp. 475-485
Hill, T. D., The Cross as Symbolic Body: An AngloLatin Analogue to The Dream of the Rood,
Neophilologus, 77:2 (1993, Apr.), pp. 297-301

4. Discourse in the Public

Sphere: Place and Time in
Cultural Texts
Module Supervisor: Prof. Irina Pan

The course discusses modes in which various subjects of dislocation

configured by a multitude of relationships to space and time relate to
the core landmarks of modern limit experiences as well as to instances
of liminality and to the centrality-marginality conflict. The discussion,
based on various contemporary interpretative approaches, also
considers ways in which the subject of the cultural text interrelates to
place and time in relation to the experience of memory, mortality,
landscape, art, eroticism and conflict from the direction of Old/New
World refigurations of personal, social and cultural events. References
are made to a limited corpus of key texts emblematic for the
discussion of individual problematic identity and for cultural
significances of temporal and spatial frameworks. The texts are chosen
from British, American, Canadian, Australian culture, with a focus on
the contemporary significance of place and time in (post)colonial
cultural contexts.
Assessment: Oral presentation; exercise (700 words); essay (1500);
exam
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Title

Places of memory

Themes for Presentation &

Discussion
Bibliography *
The space of old/new worlds. Time of
memory. Geographies of the mind.
Bibliography
Eliade, Mircea. The Quest:
History and Meaning in Religion.
Chicago & London: the U. of
Chicago Press, 1969.
Baudrillard, Jean. America.
London: Verso, 1989.

The place of home

The space of simulacrum. The quest

for selfhood. The poetics of symbolic
objects.
Bibliography
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics
of Space. Boston: Beacon Press,
1989.

The place of exile

Gallop, Jane. Reading Lacan.

Ithaca & London: Cornell U. P.,
1985.

Margins and marginality. The (m)other

tongue. Mental itineraries.
Bibliography
Seidel, Michael. Exile and the
Narrative Imagination. New
Haven, Conn: Yale U. P., 1986.
Mihaila, Rodica and Irina
Grigorescu-Pana (eds.). Our
America. People, Places, Times.
Bucuresti: Univers Enciclopedic,
2005.

The time of limit

experiences

The purloined letter and the individual

trauma. Body Works. Living for the
plot.
Bibliography
Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits. A
Selection. New York: Norton,
1982.
Brooks, Peter. Body Work.
Objects of Desire in Modern
Narrative. Cambridge: Harvard
U. P., 1993.
---. Reading for the Plot.Design
and Intention in Narrative.
Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1984.

H
5

The place of war

Conflictual situations. Reading the

other. Mimetic desire.
Bibliography
Girard, Rene. Deceit, Desire and
the Novel. Self and Other in
Literary Structure. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1976.

The place of
mortality

Goldsworthy, Vesna. Inventing

Ruritania The Imperialism of the
Imagination. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press,
1998.

The subject of pathos. Configurations

of death. Memory monuments.
Bibliography
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror.
An Essay on Abjection. New York:
Columbia U. P., 1981.
Ricoeur, Paul. The Symbolism of
Evil. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

The time of love

Modes of erotic relatedness. Roles of

femininity. The family romance.
Bibliography
Kristeva, Julia. Tales of Love. New York:
Columbia U. P., 1987.

The time of art

Visual intertext. Representations of

place.
Bibliography
Brooks, Peter. Body Work.
Objects of Desire in Modern
Narrative. Cambridge: Harvard
U. P., 1993.
Mihaila, Rodica and Irina
Grigorescu-Pana (eds.) New/Old
Worlds. Spaces of Transition.
Bucuresti: Univers Enciclopedic,
2007.

The place of
nature

Approaches to landscape. City myths.

Fictions of nature.
Bibliography

Culler, Jonathan. Framing the Sign.

Criticsm and Its Institutions. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1988.
10

The sense of Refigurations of (post)colonial

America and the experiences. The place and time of
theme of Europe
contemporary hybridity. Hyphenated
identities.
Bibliography

1114

Case studies

Bhabha, Homi (ed.). Nation and

Narration. London: Routledge,
1995.
Said, Edward W. Culture and
Imperialism. New York: Vintage
Books, 1994.
---. Orientalism. London:
Routledge, 1978.

5. Business Communication (I)

Dr. Daria Protopopescu
Rezumatul coninutului cursului: Cursul se va desfura pe baza unor
analize de texte de specialitate urmnd temele principale enunate mai jos. Pe
baza acestor texte se vor aprofunda concepte i termeni specifici domeniului
financiar - bancar i al celui de contabilitate, cu exerciii aplicate pe
vocabularul discutat i fragmente de texte ce au legtura cu tema propus i
care vor fi sugerate ca teme de traducere.
Obiectivele nvrii: Cursul se adreseaz studenilor care doresc s
aprofundeze noiunile de economie (finane/contabilitate) dobndite pe
parcursul celor trei ani de studiu n cadrul seciei LMA cu aplicaie pe
terminologia englez a acestui domeniu. Se vor urmri urmtoarele obiective:
aprofundarea limbajului englez de finane i contabilitate precum i
aprofundarea conceptelor de alctuire a unor glosare de termeni specializai,
pe baza unui corpus de texte selectat.
Metoda de evaluare: Studenii vor fi evaluai pe baza alctuirii unor portofolii
ce vor conine mini-glosare de termeni de specialitate i traduceri de texte de
specialitate
Programa analitic a cursului
Temele principale:
1. Metode i instrumente de plat folosite n finanarea tranzaciilor
comerciale internaionale

Nr.
ore:
2

2. Taxe, tarife i impozite

3. Produse i servicii bancare: tipuri de conturi bancare, obligaiuni

4. Inflaia

5. Fondul monetar international

6. Piee financiare

7. Piaa forei de munc

8. Globalizarea

Nr.cr
t.

Bibliografie minimal

Costinett L., The Language of Accounting in English, Prentice Hall Inc.,

1977
Hollinger A., Barghiel V., Ghiga G., The Language of Financial, Banking
and Insurance in English, Cavallioti, 2002
Pohl A., Test Your Business English Accounting, Penguin Books, 1997
Sweeney S., Test Your Business English Finance, Penguin Books, 1997
***, The Economist

2
3
4
5

6. Reconfigurations of the Body

in Contemporary American
Advertising
Assistant Professor/Lecturer Mihaela Precup
Second Year American and British Studies MA
mihaela.precup@americanstudies.ro

Class Description
The purpose of this class is to provide students with a framework for
generating a critique of contemporary advertising in the US, with a focus on
the politics of consumption and reconfigurations of the body it generates.
This class is not a history of contemporary advertising; in that respect, it does
not mean to be exhaustive. A selection of both print and TV adverts will be
made, and students are encouraged to bring their own examples to class for
discussion.
Class Requirements
-

Every student must take part in one round-table discussion on one of

the texts in the bibliography, and hand in one paper. The round-table
discussion will involve 5-6 participants/class. Each participant will read
at least one of the texts assigned for that particular class and will bring
one question/one conversation topic to class, and the topic will be
discussed mainly by the students responsible for that particular text
(however, participation from the rest of the class is encouraged).
Please feel free to bring images/videos etc. to class to support your

ideas, but also bear in mind that we only have a limited amount of
time. The paper should be 5-7 pages long and contain at least 4 critical
sources. All essays must be written in accordance with the MLA
quotation style. The topic of the essay can be freely chosen from any
of those discussed during class.
-

Attendance is 50% mandatory and it must be accompanied by

significant class participation. Anyone who misses more than 50% of all
classes will be unable to hand in the final paper.

You can find all the reading materials in a course package that will
be available in the American Studies Library (Room 4) for American
Studies MA students and in the Britisch Cultural Studies Centre for
BCSC MA students.

Any form of plagiarism (=presenting somebody elses ideas as your

own) is severely sanctioned (i.e. students who plagiarize will fail the
class).

Grading:
- Class participation: 30%. Extra points will be awarded for excellent class
contributions.
- Final paper: 70%
Class Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. Advertising inside and out
Ogilvy, David. How to Produce Advertising That Sells from Ogilvy on
Advertising. London: Prion Books, 1983 9-30
---. Whats Wrong with Advertising? 206-216
Hegarty, John. Introduction & Brands and Ideas from Hegarty on
Advertising. Turning Intelligence into Magic. London: Thames&Hudson,
2011 13-22 & 39-56
Klein, Naomi. Culture Jamming. Ads under Attack. from No Logo. 279309

3. Ways of Looking (1)

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Subject of Visual Culture from Mirzoeff, Nicholas
(ed.). Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002 3-23
Berger, John. from Ways of Seeing 129-155
4. Ways of Looking (2)
Barthes, Roland. Rhetoric of the Image. In Mirzoeff, Nicholas (ed.).
Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002 135-138
Berger, John. The Suit and the Photograph. In Mukerji, Chandra and
Michael Schudson (eds.). Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary
Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991 424-431
5. The Politics of Consumption (1)
Schor, Juleit. The New Politics of Consumption. Why Americans Want So
Much More Than They Need. 205-2011 in Gender, Race, and Class in
Media. A Critical Reader. Eds. Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011 205-211
Steinem, Gloria. Sex, Lies, and Advertising. GRCM, 235-241
Williams, Rosalind. The Dream World of Mass Consumption. Mukerji,
Chandra and Michael Schudson (eds.). Rethinking Popular Culture:
Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1991 198-235
6. No Class.
7. The Politics of Consumption (2)
Mort, Frank. Paths to Mass Consumption. Britain and the USA since 1945
from Nava, Mica, Andrew Blake, Iain MacRury and Barry Richards. Buy This
Book. Studies in Advertising and Consumption. London and New York:
Routledge, 1997 15-33
Kroes, Rob. Advertising. The World of Disjointed Attributes from Kroes,
Rob. If Youve Seen One, Youve Seen the Mall. Europeans and the
American Mass Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996 93-107

Himmelstein, Hal. Kodaks America. Images from the American Eden.

in Himmelstein, Hal. Television Myth and the American Mind. ABC-Clio,
1994 183-206
8.The Feminine/Masculine Body
Ouellette, Laurie. Inventing the Cosmo Girl. Class Identity and Girl-Style
American Dreams. GRCM, 201-233
Katz, Jackson. Advertising and the Construction of Violent White
Masculinity. From BMWs to Bud Light. 261-269
9. The Aesthetics of the Clean Body.
Cokall, Susann. Clean Porn: The Visual Aesthetics of Hygiene, Hot Sex,
and Hair Removal. Hall, Ann C. And Mardia J. Bishop. Pop-Porn.
Pornography in American Culture. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2007
137-154
McClintock, Anne. Soft-Soaping Empire. Commodity Racism and Imperial
Advertising. GCCR 129-152
10. The Sexualized Body
Gill, Rosalind. Supersexualize Me! Advertising and the Midriffs GRCM,
255-260
Jobling, Paul. Keeping Mrs Dawson Busy. Safe Sex, gender and pleasure in
condom advertising since 1970. In Buy This Book 157-177 Br.
11. The Flexible/Docile Body
Ferris Motz, Marilyn. Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses. The Barbie Doll
in American Society. 210-232
Tinkler, Penny and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh. Feminine Modernity in Interwar
Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes. Journal of
Womens History, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 2008, 113-143
Curry, Malcolm, Pamela and Robert M. Yiobu. Big Mac and Caneton A
LOrange: Eating, Icons, and Rituals. Browne, Ray B. Rituals and
Ceremonies in Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green
University Press, 1980 248-257

12.

The Straight/Deviant Body

Engstrom, Erika. Unraveling the Knot. Political Economy and Cultural

Hegemony in Wedding Media. GRCM 243-253
Lewis, Reina and Katrina Rolley. Ad(dressing) the dyke. Lesbian Looks and
lesbian looking. Buy This Book 178-190
Gever, Martha. Visibility Now! The Sexual Politics of Seeing. 11-44

13. The Healthy Body and the Infectious Mind.

Lasn, Kalle. The Ecology of Mind. Culture Jam. How to Reverse Americas
Suicidal Consumer Binge and Why We Must. NY: Harper Collins, 1989 929
Herzberg, David. Introduction. Medicine, Commerce, and Culture &
Blockbuster Drugs in an Age of Anxiety from Happy Pills in America:
from Miltown to Prozac. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010 1-14 & 15-45

7. Translation and Globalization

Module Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mdlina Nicolaescu

#
1

Title
Introduction into
translation studies (1)

Themes for Presentation & Discussion; Bibliography

Translation canonical texts:
Friedrich Schleiermacher : On the Different Mehotds
of Translating in Translation , Theory and Practice
a Historical Reader, ed. D. Weissbort and
Astradur Eissenston, OUP 2006
Walter Benjamin : The Task of a Translator in
Weissbort
Further Reading:
Sandra Berman, Introduction In Nation, Language
and the Ethics of Translation, eds s. Berman and
Michael Wood, Princeton Univ. Press 2005
Sameule Weber. a touch of Tranlsation : On W.
Benjamins The task of a Translator, in Berman.

2-34

Introduction into
translation studies (2)

Norms and Principles of Translation

A.
Gideon Toury : The Nature and role of Norms
in Translation: in L. Venuti (ed.) The
Translators Studies Reader, routledge , 2002
Andre
Lefere,
The
Trouble
with
Interpretation and the role of Rewriting in an

alternative Paradigm in Weissbort

Susan Bassnett , Culture and Translation in
Piotr Kuhiwczak and Karin Littau A
Companion to Translation, , Cromwell Press,
2007
Theo Hermans, Literary Translation in Piotr
Kuhiwczak
Christina Schaffner. Politics and Translation
in Piotr Kuhiwczak

B.
Lawrence Venuti, Translation as Cultural
Politics: Reimes of Domestication in English
in Weissbort.
Lawrence Venuti : Nation in L.Venuti , The
Translators Invisibility, Routledge 1995
Lawrence Venuti, Local Contingencies:
Translation and National Identities in Sandra
Berman
LAwrence Venuti : Translation, Community,
Utopia in Venuti , Translation Reader
Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi: Introduction: of
colonies, Cannibals and Vernaculars in Trivedi and
Bassnett, Post-Colonial Translation : Theory and
Practice, routledge, 1999
Maria Tymoczko, Postcolonial Writing and Literary
Translation in Trivedi and Bassnett,
Else Riberiro Liberating Calibans... in Trivedi and
Bassnett

Post- Colonial
Translation

6-7

Cultural TRanslation

8
9

Europeanization ,
Idenity and Tranlsation
Reading

10

Movies

Talal Asad The Concept of Cultural Translation

in Weissbort
Abraham Rossman and Paula Ruben .
Introduction :Translation and Anthropology in
rossman and rubel ,Translating cultures :
Perspectives on TraNSLATION AND
Anthropology, Berg, 2003
Eva Richter, Translating the concept of Identity
in Eva Hung, Translation and Cultural Change,
John Bejamins, 2005
Eva Hoffman: Lost in Translation
Michael Cronin : Translation and Identity,
Routledge, 2005
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Amy Tan The Joy Fun Club
Juma Lahiri The Interpreter of Maladies
The Joy Fun Club
Lost in Translation

8. Imagological Typologies
Module Supervisor: Prof. Monica Bottez

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12

Title
Imagology definition and
concepts

Themes for Presentation & Discussion

Bibliography *
Imagology or image studies as a branch of
comparative literature which deals with the study
of the representation of national or racial Others
in literature, viewed not as essences but as
relations(attitudes and perceptions) between two
cultural spaces.
-auto-, hetero-, and meta images
-stereotypes and imagotypes in literary texts
-boundaries between Self and Other based on
language
blood, ethnicity , race
religion
territory
political orientation
social organization
Bibliography
Anderson,
Benedict.
Imagined
Communities: Reflections on the Origin and
Spread of Nationalism, Patriotism and
Racism, New York: Verso, 1991, pp. 141154,
Romanian
trans.
Comunitati

imaginate, Bucuresti: Integral, 2000, ch.8.

Baudrilard, Jean & Marc Guillaume. Figuri
ale alteritatii. Bucuresti: Paralela 45,2002.
Davey, Frank, Post-National Arguments:
The Politics of the Anglophone - Canadian
Novel since 1967, Toronto, Buffolo, London:
1993, pp. 252-266.
Durand,
Gilbert.
Aventurile
imaginii,
imaginatia simbolica, imaginarul.Bucuresti:
Nemira,1999 .
Dyserinck, Huho. Imagologie comparata.
Dimensiunea umana a istoriei. Ed. Al. Dutu,
Bucuresti: Meridiane, 1986, pp. 197-209.

Bibliography
3-4

British autoimages and metaimages

along
political, social and
cultural axes

Byatt, Antonia. Possession. London: Vintage,

1991.
Brooke, Frances. The History of Emily
Montegue. Toronto:
M McClelland &
Stewart, 1995.
Lodge, David. Changing Places. New York ,
London: Penguin, 1992.
Moodie, Susana. Roughing it in the Bush.
McClelland & Stewart, 1989.

Further Reading
Leerssen,
Joep.Echoes
and
Images:
Reflections upon Foreign Spaces. Alterity,
Identity, Image- Selves and Others in
Society
and
Scholarship.Amsterdam:
Rodopi,1991, pp.123-138.
Pageaux, Daniel Henri. De limagologie a
la theorie en littrature compar, elements
de reflection". Europa provincial mundi.
Essays in Comparative Literature and
European Studies. Eds. Joep Leerssen & M.
Soringh.
Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
1991,
pp.297-306.
White, Hayden. Figural Realism. Studies in
the Mimesis Effect. Baltimore: John Hopkins
University Press, 1999.
E

Bibliography
5-6

Canadian autoimages and heteroimages

of
the
United States and
Britain

Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland&

Steward Inc, 1972.
Duncan, Sara Jeanette, The Imperialist.
Toronto: McClelland&Steward Inc., 1990.
Haliburton,
Thomas
Chandler.
The
Clockmaker. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart,
1958.
Richardson,
John.
Wacousta.
Toronto:
McClelland& Steward Inc., 1991.
Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners. Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart, 1974.
OHagan, Howard, Tay John, Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
Wiebe Rudy. A Discovery of Strangers.
Toronto: Vintage Books, 1995.

Further Reading

7-8

Regional autoimages

Frye, Northrop, Culture as Interpretation,

National
Consciousness
in
Canadian
Culture,Divisions on a Ground, Toronto:
Anansi, 1982, pp. 15-25, pp. 41-56.
Earle, Robert. "The Question of the Other:
Reflections on American Identities", in
Easingwood, Peter, Konrad Gross and
Hartmut Lutz( eds). Informal Empire?
Cultural relations between Canada, The
United States and Europe. Kiel: I& F Verlag,
1998.
Ricoeur, Paul. Soi-Meme comme un autre.
Paris: Seuil, 1986.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Noi si Celalalti. Iasi:
Institutul European, 1999.

Ontario: Atwood, Margaret. Cats Eye. Toronto,

New York: Random House, Anchor Books, 1998/
Engel, Marian. Bear. McClelland and Stewart,
1976.
Montreal: Richler, Mordecai. The Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz. Toronto: McClelland and
Stewart, 1989/ Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute.

McClelland and Stewart,1970/ Cohen, Leonard.

Beautiful Losers. Toronto: McClelland &Stewart
Inc., 1996.
The prairie: one novel from Mitchell, William
Ormond. Who Has Seen the Wind? Toronto:
Stoddart, 1973/ Grove, Frederick Philip. Settlers
of the Marsh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
1966/ Ostenso, Martha. Wild Geese. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1971/ Watson, Sheila.
The Double Hook. Toronto: McClelland and
Stewart, 1969.
The mountain: OHagan, Howard. Tay John,
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
The arctic region: Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery of
Strangers. Toronto: Vintage Books 1995.
Faulkner, William. The Bear.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York, London:
Penguin Books, 1999.

At Further Reading

Atwood, Margaret. Survival. A Thematic

Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto:
Anansi, 1972.
Frye, Northrop, Conclusion to a Literary
History of Canada, The Bush Garden.
Essays on the Canadian Imagination.
Toronto: Anansi, 1971, pp. 213-252.
Moran, Joe, Interdisciplinarity. London and
New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 114-122,
137-141.

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910

Hetero and Autoimages

of
the
French

Brooke, Frances. The History of Emily

Montegue.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
MacLennan, Hugh. Two Solitudes. Toronto:
Stoddart, Macmillan of Canada, 1991.
--------------The Return of the Sphinx.
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1971.
Hebert, Anne. Kamouraska. Don Mills,
Ontario: General Publishing Co, 1974.

Further Reading
Frye, Northrop. National Consciousness in

Canadian Culture. Mythologizing CanadaEssays on the Canadian Imagination, Toronto:

Legas, 1997, pp 147-160.
Guimont, Alain (ed), ICCS, Language, Culture
and Values in Canada at the Dawn of the 21 st
Century, pp. 15-30, Ottawa: Carlton University
Press.
Fee, Margery, Who Can Write as Other in
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, pp. 242-248.
Mulhren, Francis. Culture/Metaculture.
London and New York: Routledge, 2000. pp.
93-106.
Saywell, John, Canada: Pathways to the
Present, Toronto: Stoddart, 1994.
1112

Hetero- and
Auto-Images of the
Amerindian;
stereotypes;
deconstructing
stereotypes.

Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed. Lincoln and

London:
University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Cooper, John Fenimore. The Last of the
Mohicans. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale
Group, 1998.
Duncan, Sara Jeanette, The Imperialist,
Toronto: McClelland&Steward Inc., 1990
Kroetsch, Robert. Gone Indian. Nanaimo,
B.C.: Theytus Books, 1981
---------------------Badlands.
Don
Mills,
Ontario: General Publishing Co, 1975.
King, Thomas. Medicine River. Toronto:
Penguin Books Canada, 1995.
------------------------ Green Grass, Running
Water. Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers,
1993.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York, London:
Penguin Group, 1998.
Moodie, Susana. Roughing it in the Bush.
McClelland & Stewart, 1989
OHagan, Howard. Tay John, Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
Richardson, John. Wacousta. Toronto:
McClelland & Steward Inc., 1991

Further Reading
Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian. The

1314

Auto-images of
Japanese
Canadians,
Romanian
Canadians
and
Canadian Gypsies

Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture.

Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1992.
Goldie, Terry, The Representation of the
Indigene in The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader, pp. 232-236.
Hutcheon,
Linda,
The
Politics
of
Postmodernism, London & New York:
Routledge, 1995, Romanian transl. Politica
Postmodernismului, Bucuresti: Univers,
1998
Hutcheon, Linda, The Canadian
Postmodern. A Study of Contemporary
English-Canadian
Fiction,
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Incercare de a-l gndi
pe cellalt. Bucuresti: All, 2000.

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan, Harmondsworth:

Penguin, 1983.
Radu
Kenneth.
Baba.A
Private
Performance. Montreal: Vhicule Press,
1990.
------------------- The Devil Is Clever. A
Memoir of My Romanian Mother, Toronto:
Harper Flamingo Canada, 2004.
Sapergia, Barbara. Foreigners. Regina,
Saskatchewan: Cocteau Books, 1989.
Lee, Ronald. Goddam Gypsy. Toronto:
Collins,1973

Further Reading
Rocio, Davis & Baena, Rosalia (eds), Tricks
with a Glass. Writing Ethnicity in Canada,
Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000, pp. 19-35.
Leerssen, Joep. Image and Reality and
Belgium. Europa provincial mundi. Essays in
Comparative Literature and European Studies,.
Eds. Joep Leerssen M.Soringh. Amsterdam:
Rodopi,1991, pp 280-290.
Pageaux, Daniel Henri. Limagerie culturelle,
Syntheses, Bucarest,
VIII (1981), 169185.

9. Identity Issues in
Postcolonialism and
Postcommunism
Tutor: Dr. Bogdan
tefnescu
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course offers a comparative perspective on postcolonialism and
postcommunism against the epistemic background of late
modernity/postmodernity, an age when the old political and economic
scaffolding of both capitalist and communist empires collapses only to
give way to new forms of domination. Hence, the course treats former

colonies and former satellite communist states as siblings of

subalter(n)ity. The aim is to highlight generic and structural similarities
between traumatized post-imperialist cultures, on the one hand, and
historical and ideological differences, on the other. Also, I am expecting
that, by the end of the course, students will be able to import some
methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism into the study of
postcommunism, as well as to use postcommunist scholarship as an
ideological moderator for the hegemonic first/third-world-oriented
discourses in postcolonialism.
While theoretical and methodological reflexivity is thoroughly pursued
in the various sessions, efforts are made to offer a lively picture of
postcommunist discourse in Romania by means of memorable and
stylistically consummate texts by foremost Romanian authors. They
are always to be approached contrastively, with a view to the aims
outlined above.
The agenda of this course is to rekindle the militant relevance and
political involvement of cultural studies in the new context of
postcommunist Romania. Postcolonial criticism has always been an
effort on behalf of minor/marginal cultures not only to expose and
understand the way in which a hegemonic center subdued and
manipulated the development of their identity, but also to resist that
pressure and rectify their situation. By turning the critical lens of
cultural studies on Romanias own recent history as a marginalized and
abused culture, the course is prompting students to engage their own
colonized identities and to take a stance in terms of cultural politics.
DISCUSSION THEMES + BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.
INTRODUCING THE COURSE AND THE CULTURAL
STUDIES CONTEXT 11 Oct.
Presentation of the aims and prerequisites of the course.
A short introduction to the methodology and agenda of cultural
studies. Positioning the study of postcommunism and postcolonialism
in the context of cultural studies.
2.
THE POSTMODERN AGE 18 Oct.
Modern vs. postmodern; postmodernity vs. postmodernism.
Political ideologies and critical strategies of the postmodern age.
Mandatory reading:
Modernism and modernity entries in Ashcroft, B. et alia, Key
Concepts in Post-colonial Studies. London & New York, Routledge, 1999
(1998). (pp. 143-7)
and either

Ch. Jencks. The Post-modern Reader. London: Academy Editions/New

York: St. Martins Press, 1992. (pp. 196-207; 250-66)
or
M. Waters. Modernity: Critical Concepts. London & New York:
Routledge, 1999. (vol.4, pp. 5-16)
and either
Th. Docherty, Postmodernism. A Reader, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Lond
on, 1993, pp. 120-140, 323-363;
or
R. Boyne, & A. Rattansi, Postmodernism and Society, Basingstoke,
Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1990, pp. 1-70, 97-117;
Further reading:
L. Hutcheon. The Politics of Postmodernism. London & New York:
Routledge, 1995. (pp. 23-9) (L. Hutcheon. Politica postmodernismului.
Bucuresti: Univers, 1997.)
A. Toffler. The Third Wave. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. (Ch. 4, pp.
46-60; Ch. 21, 289-310) (A. Toffler. Al treilea val. Bucuresti: Editura
Politica, 1983.)
W. Gabardi, Negotiating Postmodernism. Minneapolis & London:
University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
A. Toffler. The Third Wave. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. (Ch. 28, pp.
416-43) (A. Toffler. Al treilea val. Bucuresti: Editura Politica, 1983.)
3.
IMPERIALISM 25 OCT.
Capitalism vs. communism and their versions of imperialism; late
capitalism and post-/neo-colonialism; post- and neo-imperialism
Mandatory reading:
Imperialism and neo-colonialism entries in Ashcroft, B. et alia, Key
Concepts in Post-colonial Studies. London & New York, Routledge, 1999
(1998). (pp. 122-7; 162-3)
and either
C. Venn. Occidentalism. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2000. (pp. 51-67) http://books.google.com/books?
id=jrk7wmLY7YkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=occidentalism&hl=ro#PPA
51,M1 (fragmentar)
or
C.A.Bayly. The Birth of the Modern World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. (pp.
219-34) http://books.google.com/books?
id=yd5esDIwVJAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+birth+of+the+moder
n+world&hl=ro#PPA219,M1
Further reading:

Rudyard Kipling, The White Mans Burden (1899).

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
M. Waters. Modernity: Critical Concepts. London & New York:
Routledge, 1999. (vol.1, pp. 224-33; 290-308)
A. Toffler. The Third Wave. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. (Ch. 8, pp.
84-97) (A. Toffler. Al treilea val. Bucuresti: Editura Politica, 1983.)
4.
Postcommunist societies 1 nov.
Late communism: 1989 and the demise of communist regimes;
belated/residual communism; postcommunism; self-/ double
colonization.
Mandatory reading:
Z. Bauman. Intimations of Postmodernity. London & New York:
Routledge, 1997. (pp. 156-86) http://books.google.com/books?
id=ZnhLZpByzXAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intimations+of+postmod
ernity&hl=ro#PPA156,M1 (fragmentar)
and either
Boris Groys. Situatia postcomunista. Idea nr. 21/2005.
http://www.idea.ro/revista/index.php?
nv=1&go=2&mg=52&ch=146&ar=557
or
M. Mandelbaum. Postcommunism: four perspectives. New York: A
Council on Foreign Relations Book, 1996. (pp. 102-67)
http://books.google.com/books?
id=oYk37r7SPZgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mandelbaum+postcomm
unism+four+perspectives&hl=ro#PPP1,M1
and either
Alexander Kiossev. Notes on Self-colonising Cultures. Pejic, B. & D.
Elliott (eds.). Art and Culture in Post-communist Europe. Stockholm:
Moderna Museet, 1999. (pp. 114-8)
(http://www.kultura.bg/media/my_html/biblioteka/bgvntgrd/e_ak.htm )
or
Sorin Alexandrescu. Identitate in ruptura. Bucuresti: Univers, 2000. (pp.
27-42)
Further reading:
S. Mestrovic. The Balkanization of the West: The Confluence of
Postmodernism and Postcommunism. London & NY: Routledge, 1994.
Boris Buden. Ce este post-comunismul si cum sa-l gandim?
(conferinta sustinuta la Universitatea Nationala de Arte, Bucuresti, 15
mai 2004) http://www.e-cart.ro/4/boris/ro/gri/boris_g.html

5.
Postcommunism vs. postcolonialism 8 nov.
Contrasting postcommunism and postcolonialism: generic and
typological similarities vs. historical and ideological differences
Mandatory reading:
David ChioniMoore, Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?
Towards a Global Postcolonial Critique in Baltic Postcolonialism, ed. by
Violeta Kelertas, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2006. (pp. 11-44)
and either
Adrian Otoiu. An Exercise in Fictional Liminality: the Postcolonial, the
Postcommunist, and Romanias Threshold Generation. Comparative
Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 23:1&2 (2003) (pp.
87-95) http://www.cssaame.com/issues/23/15.pdf
or
Boris Buden. Ce este postcolonial in postcomunism?. Suplimentul de
cultura nr. 144, 8 14 septembrie 2007
www.suplimentuldecultura.ro/numarpdf/144_Special.pdf
Further reading:
Lefter, I.B. Poate fi considerat postcomunismul un post-colonialism?.
Caietele Echinox, vol. 1, (Postcolonialism & Postcomunism), Cluj:
Dacia, 2001. (pp. 117-119)
http://www.phantasma.ro/caiete/caiete/caiete1/13.html
M. Todorova. Imagining the Balkans. Oxford University Press, 1997. (pp.
7-20) (Balcanii i balcanismul, Bucureti: Humanitas, 2000, pp. 35-41)
http://books.google.com/books?id=EuFwLQhvYMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=imagining+the+balkans&hl=
ro#PPP15,M1
6.
Identity Challenges for Postcommunism 15 nov.
Market Economy, Euro-Atlantic Integration, Globalisation,
Multiculturalism, (Im-/E-)Migration, Social division
Mandatory reading:
C.A. Bayly. The Birth of the Modern World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. (pp.
234-44) http://books.google.com/books?
id=yd5esDIwVJAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+birth+of+the+moder
n+world&hl=ro#PPA234,M1
G. Andreescu. Nationalist, antinationalisti. Iasi: Polirom, 1996. (pp.
13-24)
Virgil Nemoianu. Europe. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Caietele
Echinox, vol. 1, (Postcolonialism & Postcomunism), Cluj: Dacia, 2001.
H.-R. Patapievici. Cerul vazut prin lentila. Bucuresti: Nemira, 1995. (pp.
83-6; 124-9)

7.
Identity Challenges for Postcolonialism 22 nov.
Globalisation, Multiculturalism, (Im-/E-)Migration, Social division
Mandatory reading:
Globalization entry in Ashcroft, B. et alia, Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies. London & New York, Routledge, 1999 (1998). (pp. 1105)
Amia Loomba. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge, 1998.
(pp. 245-54)
8.
Main Concepts of Postcommunist Criticism 29 nov.
Transition, local autonomy, lustration, privatization, devolution,
freedom of expression (vs. verbal abuse), memory, the experience of
incarceration.
Mandatory reading:
Venelin I. Ganev. Postcommunism As a Historical Episode of StateBuilding: A Reversed Tillyan Perspective
http://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/289.pdf
Lustratia in sistemul juridic romanesc apud. SoJust (Societatea pentru
Justitie) www.sojust.ro/uploaded/sojust%20lustratie.doc
Daniel Barbu. Republica absenta. Bucuresti: Nemira, 1999. (pp. 255-8)
9.
Main Concepts of Postcolonial Criticism 6 dec.
Agency, alienation, authenticity, cartography, center/margin,
comprador, creolization, counter-discourse, cultural
diversity/difference, dependency theory, essentialism, Eurocentrism,
exotic(ism), hybridity, liminality, negritude, Orientalism, subaltern,
world systems theory.
Mandatory reading:
Ashcroft, B. et alia, Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies. London &
New York, Routledge, 1999 (1998);
Bart Moore-Gilbert, Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics,
London & New York: Verso, 2000 (1997).
10. Voices of Romanian Postcommunism (I) 13 dec.
The quarrel between ethnic and liberal-institutionalist nationalism. (G.
Andreescu vs. O. Paler & Al. Paleologu).
Mandatory reading:

G. Andreescu. Nationalist, antinationalisti. Iasi: Polirom, 1996. (pp.

90-104)
http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Romania-si-Occidentul.-Dialog-cuAdrian-Marino*articleID_12839-articles_details.html
http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Intelectualii-si-politica-despre-altreilea-discurs*articleID_7516-articles_details.html
11. Voices of Romanian Postcommunism (II) 10 jan.
Eminescu and the anti-canonical debate
Mandatory reading:
Dilema nr. 265, 27 febr-5 martie 1998.
M. Martin. Harold Bloom Canonizatorul si canonadele sale.
Caietele Echinox, vol. 1, (Postcolonialism & Postcomunism), Cluj:
Dacia, 2001.
Further reading:
Cezar-Paul Badescu. Cazul Eminescu. Bucuresti: Paralela 45, 1999.
Iulian Costache. Eminescu. Negocierea unei imagini. Bucuresti: Cartea
romaneasca, 2008.
12. Voices of Romanian Postcommunism (III) 17 ian.
Coming to terms with the Securitate and the communist past
Mandatory reading:
Daniel Barbu. Republica absenta. Bucuresti: Nemira, 1999. (pp. 49-59;
93-106)
Ruxandra Cesereanu. Naravuri romanesti. Iasi: Polirom, 2007. (pp. 3741, 70-119)
G. Liiceanu. Apel catre lichele
http://www.constantacofc.net/constantachurch/2008/05/gabriel-liice1.html or http://agonia.ro/index.php/personals/74721/index.html
Lustratia in sistemul juridic romanesc apud. SoJust (Societatea pentru
Justitie) www.sojust.ro/uploaded/sojust%20lustratie.doc
13. extra meeting: Voices of Romanian Postcommunism
(IV) date tba
The Paltinis Group (feat. H.-R. Patapievici) vs. the young liberals
Mandatory reading:
Cristian Moraru. Modelul Cartarescu versus modelul Patapievici.
Observator cultural nr. 177, 15-21 iulie 2003.

Andrei Plesu. Vigilenta resentimentara. Dilema nr. 541, 15-21 august

2003.
and either
Katherine Verdery. National Ideology Under Socialism. Berkeley & Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1995 (1991). (pp. 278-301)
or
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. Politica dupa comunism. Bucuresti: Humanitas,
2002. (pp. 152-172)
Further reading:
G. Andreescu. Spre o filozofie a dizidentei. Bucuresti: Litera, 1992. (pp.
78-93)
Sorian Adam Matei. Boierii mintii: Intelectualii romani intre grupurile de
prestigiu. Bucuresti: Compania, 2004.
Gabriela Adamesteanu, Razboi cultural dur, Revista 22, 18 nov. 2003
(http://www.revista22.ro/a-href-razboi-cultural-dur-685html-titlerazboicultural-dur-a-685.html )
Cristian Moraru. Cultura, politica, resentiment. Observator cultural nr.
187, 23-29 septembrie 2003.

10. Britishness and Music

Junior Lecturer Alina Bottez, Doctoral Candidate

#
2-3

Title
The Battle

Themes for Presentation & Discussion

Bibliography
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Die lustigen

between Flesh

Weiber von Windsor (1796)

and Wit. Identity Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (1799)

and Alterity

Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von

between

Windsor (1849)

Shakespeares

Adolphe Adam: Falstaff (1856)

The Merry Wives

Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff (1893)

of Windsor

Edward Elgar, Sir: Falstaff (Symphonic

(1600-1) and the

Study op. 68), (1913)

Operas It

Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love (1929)

Inspired

Nicu Alifantis: Nevestele vesele din

Windsor (1978)

4-5

7-8

Black and White

Dichotomies:
Shakespeares
Othello (1604-5)
Seen by
Fair Is Foul and
Foul Is Fair:
Verdis Macbeth
(1605-6 / 1847)

Rossini (1816)

The Magic Spell

of Fairies, Elves
and Goblins: A
Midsummer
Nights Dream
(1595-6)
Yesterday and
Today

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (1692)

9-10 To Be or Not to
Be
Shakespeares
Hamlet (16001)?

Verdi (1887) and

Aram Khachaturian
Ion Dumitrescu incidental music; Aram
Khachaturian - incidental music 1933 AND
1955)

Felix Mendelssohn (Vocal-Symphony Music 1827)

Franz von Supp (1844)
Benjamin Britten (1960)
Saverio Mercadante (1822)
Ambroise Thomas (1868)
William Walton (Film Music, 1947 Sir
Laurence Olivier)
Pascal Bentoiu (1972)

1112

Never-Ending
Love Story:
Romeo and
Juliet (1594-5)

Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

(1830)
Hector Berlioz (1839)
Charles Gounod (1867)
Riccardo Zandonai: Giulietta e Romeo
(1922)
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (1957)
A mention of Prokofievs Ballet Suite and of
Tchaikovskys Overture

13

20th Century
Shrew: Cole
Porter - Kiss Me,
Kate (1948,
after The
Taming of the
Shrew 1593-4)

Recommended Bibliography:
Culianu, Ioan Petru. Eros i magie in Renatere 1484. Bucharest:
Nemira, 1994.
De Grazia, Margareta & Stanley Wells (Eds.) The Cambridge
Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001.
Hall, Jonathan. Shakespeare and Carnival After Bakhtin. Ed. Ronald
Knowles. Early Modern Literature in History Series. London: Macmillan
Press Ltd., 1998.
Hughes, Ted. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
Kern Paster, Gail. The Body Embarassed. Drama and the Disciplines of
Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University
Press, 1993.
Kermode, Frank. Shakespeares Language. London: Penguin Books,
2001.
Langer, Susanne K. Types of Drama. Eds. Sylvan Barnet, Morton
Berman & William Burto. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.

Schmidgall, Gary. Shakespeare and Opera. New York & Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1990.
Schwartz, Robert B. Shakespeares Parted Eye. Perception, Knowledge
and Meaning in the Sonnets and Plays. New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, Inc., 1990.
Shaw, Bernard. Louis Crompton (ed.) A Word More, Anglo-Saxon
Review, March 1901, in The Great Composers - Reviews and
Bombardments, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Traub, Valerie. Desire and Anxiety Circulations of Sexuality in
Shakespearean Drama. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.

11. Groups and persons:

Symbolic Violence
Module Supervisor: Prof. Radu Surdulescu

Title

Themes for Presentation & Discussion

Bibliography *

1-2

Subjects of
Violence

Michel Wieviorka. La violence. Paris: ditions

Balland, 2004, pp. 283-310.

2-3

Violence and
Modernity - An
Ethical Perspective

R. Surdulescu. The Raping of Identity. Iasi:

Institutul European, 2006, pp. 23-33.

3-4

State Power, State

Violence

Hannah Arendt. "Reflections on Violence", in The

New York Review of Books, February 27, 1969.
4. *Stefan Stanciugelu. Violena`, mit si revolutie
(Bucure]ti: Editura ALL, 1998), pp.
1-30; 65-79; 88-103.

The Revolutionary
Violence
Controversy

B. P. Singh. Problem of Violence. Indian Institute

of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla,
1999, pp. 35-64.

H
6

The Lures and the Karl Popper. "Utopia and Violence", in Conjectures
Threats
of and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific
Utopianism
Knowledge (London: Routlesdge & Kegan Paul,
1976).

The Sacrificial
Factor

War Violence

B. P. Singh. Problem of Violence. Indian Institute

of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla,
1999, pp. 93-119.

Weber, Samuel, Wartime, in De Vries, Hent and

Weber, Samuel eds, Violence, Identity and SelfDetermination (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press,
1997), pp. 80-105.
Feldman, Allen, Violence and Vision: The
Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror, in Das,

Veena et al. eds, Violence & Subjectivity (U. of

Calif. P., 2000 / 1996/), pp. 46-77.
8-9

Torture, Extreme
Violence

George Rousseau. "'The hate that is not in us':

British Literature and Acts of Extreme Violence",
in Christoph Houswitschka, e.a. (eds.)
Anglistentag 2005 Proceedings
-pp. 7-23. Radu Surdulescu. "A Few Notes on
the Margin of George Rousseau's Views on
Extreme Violence".
*Ruxandra Cesereanu. Panopticum - Tortura
politic` [n secolul XX (Ia]i: Institutul European,
2001), pp. 13-25.

9-10

Trauma, Memory, *Cathy Caruth. Introduction I; Introduction II, in

Story-Telling (I)
Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Ed. Cathy
Caruth). Baltimore and London: The Johns
Hopkins UP, 1995.

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Trauma, Memory, *Bessel van der Kolk & Onno van der Hart. "The
Story-Telling (II)
Intrusive Past: The Flexibility of Memory and the
Engraving of Trauma", in Cathy Caruth (ed.).
Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore and
London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.

1213

Everyday
Pressures and
Their Symbolic
Function

Pierre Bourdieu and Loc Wacquant. "Symbolic

Violence", in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe
Bourgois (eds.). Violence in War and Peace.
London: Blackwell Publishing, 2000.
*Pierre Bourdieu. "Gender and Symbolic
Violence", in Violence in War and Piece, pp. 339342.

13

Violence in Theatre

13. *Thomas Gould. "The Uses of Violence in

Drama", in James Redmond (ed.). Themes in
Drama, no. 13, pp. 1-12

12. Leadership & organisational

communication
Course leader: Professor Mariana NICOLAE, Ph.D.
1. Course objectives: Review of the most important theories of the
international literature on leadership & organisations; developing &
improving leadership abilities; self-development and inspirational

leadership; upgrading organisational communication abilities; the

importance of ethics for leadership; awareness raising to best practices
in managing/leading inter/national organisations; intercultural aspects
in todays organisations.
2. Course outline:
Dates
Mon., 14
Feb
Mon, 21
Feb
Mon, 28
Feb
Mon, 7
March
Mon, 14
March
Mon, 21
March
Mon, 28
March
Mon, 4
April
Mon,
April
Mon,
April
Mon,
May
Mon,
May
Mon,
May

Course content
1. Introductions.
2. Leadership terminology & approaches; field definition;
Leadership through history;
3. Organizational theory and its importance for an
integrated business environment. Power, influence and
group effectiveness;
4. -5 Theories on leadership: trait and styles theories;
contingency and best-fit theories;
6. Competences for leaders. Emotional intelligence.
7. Critical thinking a leaders fundamental competence;

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8. Organizational structures in the 21st c. Leadership in

organizations;
9 - 10 Communication systems in organisations how
leaders use them more effectively; Communication in a
crisis the role of the leader. Study Guide.
11. Leaders & Followers. Followership. Inspirational
leadership & self-development.
12. Leadership vs management. Organisation mission and
vision realities & philosophical principles.
13. Communicating change in organizations. Loyalty in
organizations. The ethical leader.
14. Leadership in a crisis? Issues of leadership

23

Course evaluation. Project submission

11
18
9

3. Course requirements and final grading:

final individual examination: 50%

course participation and activity: 50%

4. Bibliography:
A. Lecture notes.
B. Selective bibliography:

1. Bove C.L., Thill J.V., Schatzmann B.E., Business Communication

Today, Prentice Hall, 2003
2. Buchanan, D.A., Huczynski A.A., Organizational Behaviour: an
introductory text, Prentice-Hall International (UK) Ltd., 1985,
ISBN: 0-13-641069-3,
3. Callahan, D., The Cheating Culture, Why more Americans
are doing wrong to get ahead, A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc.,
2004, ISBN: 0-15-603005-5
4. Change Leadership in Romanias New Economy,
(http://www.ectap.ro/documente/suplimente/simpozion_REI_en.p
df),
5. Ciulla, B.J., The Working Life The Promise and Betrayal of
Modern Work, ISBN: 0609 807 374, Three Rivers Press, New
York, 2000
6. Crciun, D., Etica n afaceri, O scurt introducere, Editura
ASE, 2005, ISBN: 973-594-552-5
7. Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R., Mckee, A., The New Leaders,
Transforming the art of leadership into the science of
results, Time Warner Paperbacks, 2002, ISBN: 0-7515-3381-5
8. Goleman, D., Emotional Intelligence, Why it can matter
more than IQ, Bloomsbury, UK, 1996, ISBN: 0-7475-2830-6
9. Goleman, D., et al., The New Leaders, Time Warner, 2003;
10.
Goleman, D., Working with emotional intelligence,
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, UK, 1999
11.
Goleman, D., Working with emotional intelligence,
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, UK, 1999
12.
Handy, C., The Age of Unreason, Harvard Business
School Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-87584-301-8
13.
Handy, C., The Empty Raincoat, BCA, UK, CN 3201
14.
Handy, Ch.B., Understanding Organizations, Penguin
Books, 3rd edition, 1987
15.
Handy, Ch.B., Understanding Organizations, Penguin
Books, 3rd edition, 1987
16.
Haperberg, A., Rieple, A., The Strategic Management of
Organisations, Pearson Education Ltd, 2001.
17.
Haperberg, A., Rieple, A., The Strategic Management of
Organisations, Pearson Education Ltd, 2001.
18.
Hayek, F.A., Drumul ctre servitute (The Road to
Serfdom), Editura Humanitas, Bucureti, 1993.
19.
Hedberg, B., How organisations learn and unlearn in
Nystrom, P.C. & Starbuck,W.H., (editors) Handbook of
Organisational Design, vol I, OUP, (1981)
20.
Hedberg, B., How organisations learn and unlearn in
Nystrom, P.C. & Starbuck,W.H., (editors) Handbook of
Organisational Design, vol I, OUP, (1981)

21.
Hofstede, G., Cultures and Organizations, Software of
the Mind, Intercultural cooperation and its importance for
survival, HarperCollinsPublishers, UK 1991
22.
Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G.J., Cultures and
Organizations, Software of the Mind, McGraw-Hill, USA 2005
23.
Johnson, V., Emotional Intelligence: Are Successful
Leaders Born Or Made? The Business Review, Cambridge, US,
Vol.3, Num.2, Summer2005
24.
Kets de Vries, M.F.R., Leadership - Arta i miestria de
a conduce, Editura CODECS, Bucureti, 2003
25.
Kotler, P., Armstrong, G., Principles of Marketing, Prentice
Hall, 2001
26.
Luca, A., Employeescu, O scurt caracterizare a
angajatului romn, Editura Interact, 2005
27.
McCollum, J.K., Idei americane pentru manageri
romni, editura ASE, 2004
28.
Nicolae, M, (coord.), Leadership A global and cultural
approach, editura ASE, 2010
29.
Nicolae, M., Seitz, V., Cheia succesului, Imaginea
profesional, Humanitas 2008,
30.
Peters, T.J., Liberation Management, Necessary
Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties, BCA, London,
1992
31.
Peters, T.J., The Tom Peters Seminar - Crazy Times Call
for Crazy Organisations, Vintage Books, New York, 1995
32.
Peters, T.J., Waterman, R.H. Jr., In Search of Excellence,
Lessons from Americas Best-Run Companies, Warner
Books, 1982, ISBN: 0-446-37844-5
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on Wanted: Courage, Compassion and Character
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Capital - http://www.capital.ro/

The Economist - http://www.economist.com/

Financial Times - http://www.ft.com/home/uk