UNIVERSITATEA VASILE ALECSANDRI DIN BACU

ROMNIA

MINISTERUL EDUCAIEI, CERCETRII, TINERETULUI I SPORTULUI

UNIVERSITATEA VASILE ALECSANDRI DIN BACU

FACULTATEA DE LITERE

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CULTURES AND GENRES

students circle

Nr. crt.ActivityDateParticipantsTitle of presentation

Coordinator

Andreia-Irina Suciu

Mihaela Culea

culea.mihaela@ub.roIoana Boghian

1.Warriors across ages31st Oct. 2012

2.Ghosts, wizards, witches and spritesNov. 2012

3.Pilgrims, travelers, adventurers, immigrants and missionairesDec. 2012*Any pilgrim in Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

* Lord Jim in Conrads Lord Jim

*Orlando in Virginia Woolfs Orlando

*Lucky Jim in Kingsley Amiss Lucky Jim

*The female narrator-character from Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior

*Stevens the butler in Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

*Johnny Walker from Malcolm Bradburys Stepping Westward

*The nameless character from Malcolm Bradburys Dr Criminale

*Mother Theresa

* Pope John Paul IIRichard I the Lionhearted (1157 1199)

The Pilgrim Fathers in British historyThe pilgrim in The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan Yorick in Laurence Sternes A Sentimental Journey

The traveller in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S.T. Coleridge

Obi Okonkwo in Chinua Achebes No Longer at Ease

The British Missionary in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart

Lady Diana

4.Fools, tricksters, jesters, buffoons, clowns, to harlequins from from being laughed at to laughing about; the holder and speaker of truth

Jan. 2013*Feste, Sir Toby Belch and Malvolio in Shakespeares Twelfth Night

*Vladimir and Estragon in Becketts Waiting for Godot

*Rozencrants and Guildestern in Rozencrants and Guildestern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

5.Civilizers and colonizers from history through politics and cultureFeb. 2013

6.The orphan (and their literary fathers/ mothers)Mar. 2013*Jimmy Porter in John Osbornes Look Back in Anger

*John Self in Martin Amiss MoneyTom in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

7.Snobs, ladies and gentlemen vs. servantsApr. 2013Lady Bellaston in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Mrs. Honour, the female servant in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Squire Thornhill in Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield

Fitzwilliam Darcy and Charles Bingley in Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice

8.Teachers, tutors and educators

May 2013* James (Jim) Dixon in Kingsley Amiss Lucky Jim*Johnny Walker from Malcolm Bradburys Stepping WestwardThwackum and Square in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

9.Scientists, experimenters and the self-taught

Jun. 2013* Henry Perowne, the neurosurgeon in Ian McEwans Saturday* Michael Beard, the physicist in Ian McEwans Solar

* Tod Friendly/ John Young/ Odilo Unverdorben in Martin Amiss Times ArrowThe scientist of the Royal Society within an allegorical frame in Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels

William Adamson in A.S. Byatts Angels and Insects

Ms Crompton in A.S. Byatts Angels and Insects

10.The fallen woman/ prostitute/ whoreJul. 2013* Selena Street in Martin Amiss MoneyMoll Flanders in Daniel Defoes homonymous novel

Coordonatori: Lect. univ. dr. Andreia-Irina Suciu

Lect. univ. dr. Mihaela Culea

As. univ. dr. Ioana Boghian