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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2016  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW - COSMIN BORZA, MARIN SORESCU. THE LONELINESS OF A CANONICAL POET, ART PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2014, 348 P.

Authors:  ANDREI DOBOŞ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Cosmic Bursa’s debut in literary criticism, originally a doctoral thesis, might mislead readers accustomed with the monographic tradition of Romanian criticism, for its object is not exhaustively studied (Marin Sorescu’s dramaturgy and prose are eluded), but used as a pretext for dislodging numerous internal inconsist-encies of the Romanian literary histo-riography. One of these inconsistencies makes a good starting point for Borza’s versatile and flexible analytical skills: an incongruence between the pedagogical cannon (Marin Sorescu is one of the 17 poets studied in Romanian schools) and the cannon conceived in terms of literary evolution and influence (in this aspect Borza is an orthodox bloomian, not al-ways explicitly so). Although Borza’s methods and sources may seem hybrid and eclectic, the common denominator of its criticism is found in the theoretical rhetoric tradition exemplary practiced by Paul de Man and Harold Bloom.  
         
     
         
         
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