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TINERETULUI I SPORTULUI
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CULTURES AND GENRES

students circle

Nr.
crt.

1.
2.
3.

Activity

Date

Participants

Title of presentation
Coordinator

across 31st
Oct.
2012
Ghosts, wizards, Nov.
witches and sprites 2012
Pilgrims, travelers, Dec.
adventurers,
2012
immigrants
and
missionaires

Andreia-Irina Suciu

Mihaela Culea
culea.mihaela@ub.ro

*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

Richard I the Lionhearted (1157

1199)
The Pilgrim Fathers in British
history
The 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

Warriors
ages

Ioana
Boghian

*Johnny Walker from Malcolm The British Missionary in Chinua

Bradburys Stepping Westward
Achebes Things Fall Apart
*The nameless character from
Malcolm Bradburys Dr Criminale
Lady Diana

4.

Fools, tricksters,
Jan.
jesters, buffoons,
2013
clowns, to
harlequins from
from being
laughed at to
laughing about; the
holder and speaker
of truth

5.

Civilizers
and
colonizers from
history
through
politics and culture
The orphan (and
their
literary
fathers/ mothers)

6.

*Mother Theresa
* Pope John Paul II
*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

Feb.
2013
Mar.
2013

*Jimmy Porter in John Osbornes Tom in Tom Jones by Henry

Look Back in Anger
Fielding
*John Self in Martin Amiss Money

7.

Snobs, ladies and Apr.

gentlemen
vs. 2013
servants

8.

Teachers,
tutors May
and educators
2013

Lady 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
* James (Jim) Dixon in Kingsley Thwackum and Square in Tom
Amiss Lucky Jim
Jones by Henry Fielding
*Johnny Walker from Malcolm
Bradburys Stepping Westward

9.

Scientists,
Jun.
experimenters and 2013
the self-taught

* 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 Arrow

10.

The fallen woman/

prostitute/ whore

* Selena Street in Martin Amiss Moll Flanders in Daniel Defoes

Money
homonymous novel

Jul.
2013

The 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

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

Lect. univ. dr. Mihaela Culea
As. univ. dr. Ioana Boghian