Dimitriu - When we are the other
Murphy and Hoffman. The reasons for their option are both personal and historic.
On a personal level, in Murphy's vision, Transylvania is intertextually associated with
a childhood reading, Walter Starkie's Raggle-Taggle (1933), hence the pre-voyage
connotations attributed to this place as `romantic', `mysterious', etc. This positive
stereotyping is reinforced by the phonological magic of the place name that to
Murphy suggests `a one-word poem' (1992, p. xiii).
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