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10. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), The New Atlantis (1627, in Sylva Sylvarum, or A
Natural Historie)
11. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe; A Vision of the Angelick World
12. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gulliver’s Travels
13. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761): Clarissa (letters 1-10; letter 246 = Lovelace as a
“machine”; letter 507 = containing Clarissa Harlowe’s Will; letter 518 = Clarissa’s
last, posthumous, letter; letters 531-537 = last letters)
14. Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Jones (Book I); Tom Thumb; Journey from this
world to the next (Book I, chap. I-XII)
15. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768): Tristram Shandy
16. Mary Shelley (1797-1851): Frankenstein
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Notare:
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Lista de subiecte de examen:
Ficțiune 22. Thomas Chatterton and the
1. The image of man in Pope’s An Gothic Revival
Essay on Man 23. Chatterton versus Blake versus
2. The fundamental tenets embraced Coleridge: the power of words
by Pope as a representative of 24. Blake’s symbolism in his poetry /
Enlightenment thought paintings; address the question of
3. The function of ambiguity in the the power of myth
English novel 25. The vocabulary used by Blake in
4. The main features of the gothic Songs of Innocence compared
novel: function and scenic effects with that in Songs of Experience
5. The problem of good and evil in 26. The function of the Heaven-Hell
Defoe Archetype / The power of myth
6. The power of myth in Defoe in Kubla Khan / The rime of the
7. The problem of good and evil in Ancient Mariner
Swift 27. Imagination versus fancy in
8. The power of myth in Swift Coleridge’s system
9. The nature and function of 28. The significance and function of
perspective / contrast in Swift’s memory / the past in Tintern
Gulliver’s Travels Abbey (Wordsworth) and/or other
10. The image of man in Swift’s romantic poems
Gulliver’s Travels. Refer at least 29. P. B. Shelley’s typical symbolism
to one of the four books 30. The power of myth in PB Shelley
11. Fielding and the architectonic 31. The image of the rebel in
novel (Tom Jones) Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound /
12. The problem of good and evil in The image of Egypt in Shelley’s
Fielding Ozymandias
13. The power of myth in Fielding 32. The power of myth / authority in
14. The problem of good and evil in Byon
Sterne 33. The image of the rebel in Byron’s
15. The power of myth in Sterne Manfred/Prometheus
16. The nature of perspective in 34. John Keats and the romantic
Tristram Shandy imagination/negative capability
17. The function of temporal pattern 35. The power of myth in Keats
in Tristram Shandy 36. Truth and beauty in Keats
18. The power of myth in Mary 37. John Keats and the power of
Shelley’s Frankenstein words
19. The image of the scientist in 38. The image of romantic love in the
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein work of a romantic author
20. Reason versus imagination in 39. The image of woman in Keats’s
Enlightenment/romanticism La Belle Dame Sans Merci
21. The story of Thomas Chatterton, 40. John Clare: the Wordsworthian
the boy-poet Shadow
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Critică 10. The Founding Fathers of
1. The rise of the British novel: the Romanticism: Addison,
social and philosophical context Rousseau, Edward Young
(Watt) 11. The Founding Fathers of
2. The rise of the British novel: Romanticism: Edward Young
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (Watt) 12. The Founding Fathers of
3. The rise of the British novel: Romanticism: Burton (Anatomy
Richardson’s Clarissa (Watt) of Melancholy); Schiller (The
4. The rise of the British novel: Ghost-Seer)
Fielding’s Tom Jones (Watt) 13. William Blake: man without a
5. The Founding Fathers of the mask (Bronowski)
Enlightenment: Voltaire (Letters 14. S. T. Coleridge’s opium dreams –
concerning the English Nation Kubla Khan (Abrams)
and Candide), Leibniz 15. S. T. Coleridge’s opium
(Monadology) nightmares – The Rime of the
6. The Founding Fathers of the Ancient Mariner (Abrams)
Enlightenment: Descartes, Fr. 16. Defending poetry: Wordsworth,
Bacon, Hobbes Coleridge, Shelley (Bronowski)
7. The Founding Fathers of the 17. Romanticism and the (French,
Enlightenment: Locke, Newton, American, Scientific, Industrial)
Spinoza Revolutions (Stroe)
8. The Founding Fathers of the 18. Definitions of romanticism
Enlightenment: Locke versus (Stroe)
Leibniz (on human 19. Chatterton’s magical universe
understanding) (Stroe)
9. The Founding Fathers of 20. Clare’s metaphysics of nature
Romanticism: Chatterton, (Stroe)
Rousseau