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Romanian Literature as World Literature, edited by Mircea Martin, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian aims to fill a major gap in local literary research and, most importantly, to offer a more exhaustive and diversified view on Romanian literature in relation to the international stage of canonized authors from different cultures. While the virtually disregarded position that Romania takes on this 'stage' could be reckoned as shortcoming, this contribution provides a significant plethora of different views and insights on Romanian literature, as well as its impact in relation to Europe's undying figures of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is widely observed that planning education in Europe is affected increasingly by various forces of Europeanisation and internationalization. While these trends are not regarded uncritically, very often commentators treat them as inexorable, or it is assumed that individual universities have considerable agency in how they respond. However, closer attention to the literature on Europeanisation shows that nation-states significantly mediate these processes. This is the focus of this paper, which draws on a case study of the creation of an integrated multi-country Masters programme in spatial planning. The analysis shows that national institutions still exert significant force, at least on the structure of the degree programmes that can be created, which universities seeking to Europeanize have to negotiate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Through this study we will try to highlight some literary references to space and exile seen from the perspective of identity and the dynamics of this phenomenon. In this matter, we will consider three novels (the former, a very well known novel, the latter two, not very popular), from the European Francophone area, written by Romanian authors who had to deal - in different periods of time and places - with exile: Vintilă Horia (Dieu est né en exil ['God Was Born in Exile']), Eugene (Mon Nom ['My name']) and Marius Daniel Popescu (La Symphonie du loup ['Symphony of the Wolf']). A search of one's self catalyzed by the distance from their motherland (alienation), by the new way of seeing their mother tongue and their roots, the exile will develop significantly the study of literature whatever may be the ages or the historic circumstances that determined this "identity mutation". We will highlight the value of spatial exile as a part of one's identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]