This general issue of Mosaic includes eight unique essays that explore various interplays between literature and other forms art, including music and images. These essays focus on the word of William Blake, Anthony Burgess, and Shakespeare. These and other essays also engage with the theories and philosophies of disability studies, fairy tales and folklore, and feminism, as well as the writings of Maurice Blanchot, Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida.