Cosmin Borza
Biographic Data
| ID | 838687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cosmin Borza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cosmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Borza |
| SIGNATURE | BORZA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sextil Pușcariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6100-2507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Peripheral Nationalism, Inter-imperial Comparatism
Therapy for the shock
From Ostalgie To Ostodium . The Anti-Communist Novel in Post-1989 East-Central Europe 1
This study seeks to theorize the post-communist anti-communist novel as a distinct and productive genre in East-Central European literatures, which we describe - in polemic with the better-known ostalgie - as a narrative of ostodium. We argue that anti-communist fiction became a cohesive genre in post-communism owing to its rigid view of the past, which was kept alive and significant, while simultaneously being antagonized, even after communism h…
Westalgia as the infantilization of the East
Tragicomedia Occidentului
Our article examines the narrative registers and forms adopted in the 1990s by the Romanian novelists, screenwriters and film directors in order to portray the phenomenon of economic migration to the West. Our focus is on the intriguing and paradoxical employment of tragicomic, melodramatic, burlesque-grotesque and sensational narrative techniques as the Romanian collective imaginary during the 1990s witnessed the peak idealization of emigration …
Romanele memoriei
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on its forms and dynamics in post-communist Romania. Drawing on a corpus of over 200 novels published in …
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova
The peasant and the nation plot
Our article conducts a critical reassessment of one of the most influential cultural myths in Eastern Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the nationalist definition of peasantry as embodying the quintessence of the nation. In order to evaluate the imagological scope and ideological implications engendered by this so-called ‘people-nation myth’, we focus on the Romanian culture, whom we consider fully representative for the E…
Genurile romanului românesc (1933-1947). O analiză cantitativă
This article puts forward a quantitative account of the subgenres of the Romanian novel during the 1933-1947 period. It shows the massive domination of the social novel and the Bildungsroman and analyzes the dynamics of genre and popular literature – adventure novels, detective fiction, SF, etc. – within the first period of massive literary production in Romanian literature. The article is the result of the MDRR (Muzeul Digital al Romanului Român…
Educație și școală în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
The article sets out to establish the ways in which the Romanian novelistic production between 1845 and 1947 reflects the challenges and accomplishments of successive efforts at modernising the educational system. Therefore, the case-studies we discuss are focused on some of the major implications of Romanian education: the shifts in the literal spaces in which the educational process is being conducted, the access to books and the social prestig…
Canonul occidental din Istoria literaturii române contemporane
This paper focuses on the strategies enacted by Mihai Iovănelʼs History in order to map the transnational interactions of contemporary Romanian literature. Since Iovănel emphasizes that, starting with the 2000s, the Romanian writers define themselves mainly through the global networks in which they try to integrate, this article aims to analyse: a) the canonical function acquired by the local references to World Literature; b) their explanatory r…
Genurile romanului românesc (1901-1932). O analiză cantitativă
Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusion…
The Sickle and the Piano. A Distant Reading of Work in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel
This article conducts a semantic search of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century (MDRR), through which the authors attempt to identify the occurrences of several key concepts for class and labour imagery in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel, such as “muncă” [labour/work], “muncitor” [labourer/worker], “țăran” [peasant], “funcționar” [civil servant], alongside two main words that strikingly point out to a dissemblance of r…
Poli de producție ai romanului românesc (1901-1932)
The following study employs a quantitative analysis of the Romanian novelistic production from the period 1901-1932. By using the literary corpus developed by the research project ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932, implemented by ASTRA National Museum Complex, this paper focuses on the secondary canonical writers (with their “b-sides and rarities”), the novelists’ origins, the abundance and the geographical nod…
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1844-1932)
This study explores, using intersectionality and quantitative analysis, several axes that help shape the identity of the characters in the fictional worlds from a corpus of approximately 500 Romanian novels published between 1844 and 1932. They are gender, ethnicity/nationality, and class/work. It also briefly analyzes the gender gap in the production of the novel and examines the dynamics between the gender of the authors and the gender of the m…
The Heroines. Re-mythicization of the First World War in the Romanian Literature
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1844-1932)
This study explores, using intersectionality and quantitative analysis, several axes that help shape the identity of the characters in the fictional worlds from a corpus of approximately 500 Romanian novels published between 1844 and 1932. They are gender, ethnicity/nationality, and class/work. It also briefly analyzes the gender gap in the production of the novel and examines the dynamics between the gender of the authors and the gender of the m…
Poli de producție ai romanului românesc (1901-1932)
The following study employs a quantitative analysis of the Romanian novelistic production from the period 1901-1932. By using the literary corpus developed by the research project ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932, implemented by ASTRA National Museum Complex, this paper focuses on the secondary canonical writers (with their “b-sides and rarities”), the novelists’ origins, the abundance and the geographical nod…
Canonul occidental din Istoria literaturii române contemporane
This paper focuses on the strategies enacted by Mihai Iovănelʼs History in order to map the transnational interactions of contemporary Romanian literature. Since Iovănel emphasizes that, starting with the 2000s, the Romanian writers define themselves mainly through the global networks in which they try to integrate, this article aims to analyse: a) the canonical function acquired by the local references to World Literature; b) their explanatory r…
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova
The peasant and the nation plot
Our article conducts a critical reassessment of one of the most influential cultural myths in Eastern Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the nationalist definition of peasantry as embodying the quintessence of the nation. In order to evaluate the imagological scope and ideological implications engendered by this so-called ‘people-nation myth’, we focus on the Romanian culture, whom we consider fully representative for the E…
Therapy for the shock
Tragicomedia Occidentului
Our article examines the narrative registers and forms adopted in the 1990s by the Romanian novelists, screenwriters and film directors in order to portray the phenomenon of economic migration to the West. Our focus is on the intriguing and paradoxical employment of tragicomic, melodramatic, burlesque-grotesque and sensational narrative techniques as the Romanian collective imaginary during the 1990s witnessed the peak idealization of emigration …
Romanele memoriei
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on its forms and dynamics in post-communist Romania. Drawing on a corpus of over 200 novels published in …
Educație și școală în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
The article sets out to establish the ways in which the Romanian novelistic production between 1845 and 1947 reflects the challenges and accomplishments of successive efforts at modernising the educational system. Therefore, the case-studies we discuss are focused on some of the major implications of Romanian education: the shifts in the literal spaces in which the educational process is being conducted, the access to books and the social prestig…
The Heroines. Re-mythicization of the First World War in the Romanian Literature
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
Genurile romanului românesc (1901-1932). O analiză cantitativă
Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusion…
The Sickle and the Piano. A Distant Reading of Work in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel
This article conducts a semantic search of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century (MDRR), through which the authors attempt to identify the occurrences of several key concepts for class and labour imagery in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel, such as “muncă” [labour/work], “muncitor” [labourer/worker], “țăran” [peasant], “funcționar” [civil servant], alongside two main words that strikingly point out to a dissemblance of r…
Poli de producție ai romanului românesc (1901-1932)
The following study employs a quantitative analysis of the Romanian novelistic production from the period 1901-1932. By using the literary corpus developed by the research project ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932, implemented by ASTRA National Museum Complex, this paper focuses on the secondary canonical writers (with their “b-sides and rarities”), the novelists’ origins, the abundance and the geographical nod…
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1844-1932)
This study explores, using intersectionality and quantitative analysis, several axes that help shape the identity of the characters in the fictional worlds from a corpus of approximately 500 Romanian novels published between 1844 and 1932. They are gender, ethnicity/nationality, and class/work. It also briefly analyzes the gender gap in the production of the novel and examines the dynamics between the gender of the authors and the gender of the m…
Genurile romanului românesc (1933-1947). O analiză cantitativă
This article puts forward a quantitative account of the subgenres of the Romanian novel during the 1933-1947 period. It shows the massive domination of the social novel and the Bildungsroman and analyzes the dynamics of genre and popular literature – adventure novels, detective fiction, SF, etc. – within the first period of massive literary production in Romanian literature. The article is the result of the MDRR (Muzeul Digital al Romanului Român…
Educație și școală în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
The article sets out to establish the ways in which the Romanian novelistic production between 1845 and 1947 reflects the challenges and accomplishments of successive efforts at modernising the educational system. Therefore, the case-studies we discuss are focused on some of the major implications of Romanian education: the shifts in the literal spaces in which the educational process is being conducted, the access to books and the social prestig…
Canonul occidental din Istoria literaturii române contemporane
This paper focuses on the strategies enacted by Mihai Iovănelʼs History in order to map the transnational interactions of contemporary Romanian literature. Since Iovănel emphasizes that, starting with the 2000s, the Romanian writers define themselves mainly through the global networks in which they try to integrate, this article aims to analyse: a) the canonical function acquired by the local references to World Literature; b) their explanatory r…
The peasant and the nation plot
Our article conducts a critical reassessment of one of the most influential cultural myths in Eastern Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the nationalist definition of peasantry as embodying the quintessence of the nation. In order to evaluate the imagological scope and ideological implications engendered by this so-called ‘people-nation myth’, we focus on the Romanian culture, whom we consider fully representative for the E…
From Ostalgie To Ostodium . The Anti-Communist Novel in Post-1989 East-Central Europe 1
This study seeks to theorize the post-communist anti-communist novel as a distinct and productive genre in East-Central European literatures, which we describe - in polemic with the better-known ostalgie - as a narrative of ostodium. We argue that anti-communist fiction became a cohesive genre in post-communism owing to its rigid view of the past, which was kept alive and significant, while simultaneously being antagonized, even after communism h…
Westalgia as the infantilization of the East
Tragicomedia Occidentului
Our article examines the narrative registers and forms adopted in the 1990s by the Romanian novelists, screenwriters and film directors in order to portray the phenomenon of economic migration to the West. Our focus is on the intriguing and paradoxical employment of tragicomic, melodramatic, burlesque-grotesque and sensational narrative techniques as the Romanian collective imaginary during the 1990s witnessed the peak idealization of emigration …
Romanele memoriei
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on its forms and dynamics in post-communist Romania. Drawing on a corpus of over 200 novels published in …
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova
Peripheral Nationalism, Inter-imperial Comparatism
Therapy for the shock
Art (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Comparative and World Literature (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Romanian (9 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (7 works)