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Article: Passage to Romania: American Literature in Romania. (Romanian).
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Thomas Amherst Perry. Passage to Romania: American Literature in Romania lasi/Oxford/Portland (Oregon). Center for Romanian Studies (ISBS, distr.). 2001 212 pages. ISBN 973-9432-19-0
DEVELOPED PATIENTLY over several decades, Thomas Perry's Passage to Romania offers more than a history of Romanian-American literary relations. Beyond the well-documented evolutionary narrative of literary exchanges that started in the late eighteenth century, when both cultures discovered the Enlightenment, the reader finds a study in comparative cultural anthropology that explores the contact between a new literature and myth (that of America) and another budding literature in a ...