Recommended Citation : Cistelecan, Alex. “Novel and Anti-Novel. Moretti Before Distant Reading”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 6.2 (2020): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.01.

Abstract: The paper discusses an intermediary phase in Franco Moretti’s intellectual journey, namely the 1990s. This is a period of transition in Moretti’s thinking, in which he is working simultaneously on two fronts: on the one hand, he is refining and bringing to completion the...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation : Pojoga, Vlad et al. “The Character Network in Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion: A Quantitative Analysis of Dialogue”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 6.2, 2020: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.02

Abstract: This study revisits what is widely considered “the first modern novel” in Romanian literature, Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion, from a network theory perspective. Isolating the dialogue and quantitatively analysing the interventions of every...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended citation : Modoc, Emanuel, and Daiana Gârdan. “Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 6.2 (2020): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.03.

Abstract: The present study proposes an experimental exploration of the Romanian novel written between 1920 and 1940 through the use of stylometry, a method of distant reading employed for the statistical...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Martin, Anca-Simina. “A Quantitative Analysis of the Romanian Translations of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Puns”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 6.2 (2020): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.04.

Abstract: This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the Romanian translations of 325 ribald Shakespearean puns, which originate in 20 plays and 71 renditions, with special focus on assessing the impact of translator-subjective and objective...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Baghiu, Ștefan. “Translations of Novels in the Romanian Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century (1794-1914): A Quantitative Perspective”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 6.2 (2020): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.05.

Abstract: This article uses quantitative methods to provide a macro perspective on translations of novels in Romanian culture during the long nineteenth century, by modifying Eric Hobsbawm’s 1789-1914 period, and...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Baghiu, Ștefan and Cosmin Borza. “The Sickle and the Piano. A Distant Reading of Work in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 6.2 (2020): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.06

Abstract: 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...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Morariu, David. “The Affective Geography of Paris in the 19th Century Romanian Novel: Between Admiration and Aversion”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 6.2, 2020: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.07

Abstract: Based on “The Emotions of London”, a research project initiated at the Stanford Literary Lab, my article focuses on two relevant issues. First of all, I aim to demonstrate, as the “geography of emotions” experiment has...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Olaru, Ovio. “Producing social mobility. Class and Travel in the Romanian Novel 1901-1932”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 6.2: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.08.

Abstract: The present article addresses the Romanian novelistic production between 1901 and 1932 in the attempt of identifying a series of patterns regarding the protagonists’ social mobility. Starting with the most mentioned destinations throughout the novels, I...   ⇨ Read more

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Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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