Transition: An International Review 

About: Transition: An International Review is an academic journal published by Indiana University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & White (horse). It has an ISSN identifier of 1527-8042. Over the lifetime, 911 publications have been published receiving 10457 citations. The journal is also known as: Transition :.

Questions of Travel@@@Collected Travel Writings. 2 Volumes: Great Britain and America, The Continent.@@@The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration.@@@The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to "Culture," 1800-1918.

Abstract: Tourist and traveller in the network of 19th-century travel tourism and anti-tourism - conventions and strategies a scripted continent - British and American travel-writers in Europe, c. 1825-1875 ambivalent appropriations - culture and the tourist in James Forster's trespasses - tourism and cultural politics epilogue.

The Ordeal of Middlebrow Culture@@@The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.

Abstract: Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon \"the autonomy of the aesthetic, \" Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether playwrights poets or storytellers. In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after him untouched. Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Ibsen, Joyce, and Beckett were all indebted to him; Tolstoy and Freud rebelled against him; and Dante, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Dickinson, Proust, the modern Hispanic and Portuguese writers Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa are exquisite examples of how canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. Bloom concludes this provocative, trenchant work with a complete list of essential writers and books - his vision of the Canon.