Issue 19.3-4
Overview
Special Issue: Literature and Altered States of Consciousness
Published: June 1986
See the issue summary and contents below.
15 essays, totalling 218 pages
$15.00 CAD
Featuring an essay on Herman Hesse and artificial intelligence by Timothy Leary, this double special issue of Mosaic explores the dreaming, paranormal, and parapsychological intersections of consciousness, culture, and literature. Available in two volumes, this special issue also includes essays that explore how theatre alters the mind, six essays on intoxication (and literature, and an essay exploring spirit possession in The Tale of Genji.
"Neutral" Consciousness in the Experience of TheaterRalph Yarrow | |
Yugao: A Case of Spirit Possession in The Tale of GenjiDoris G. Bargen | |
"The Wild Anarchie of Drinke": Ben Jonson and AlcoholPeter Hyland | |
The Seer Stone Controversy: Writing the Book of MormonPeter Hyland | |
God's Wine and Devil's Wine: The Idea of Intoxication in EmersonNicholas O. Warner | |
Poe's "The Black Cat" as a Critique of Temperance LiteratureT.J. Matheson | |
Cognitive Psychology and Whitman's "Song of Myself"Chanita Goodblatt and Joseph Glicksohn | |
Alcoholism and Family Abuse in Maggie and The Bluest EyeRosalie Murphy Baum | |
Ernst J?nger: Literature, Warfare and the Intoxication of PhilosophyMarcus Bullock | |
Robert Lowell and Free AssociationKatherine Wallingford | |
The Drug Experience in Jos? Agust?n's FictionSusan C. Schaffer | |
La Pens?e fusionelle et la pens?e s?paratrice chez Jeanne HyvrardJennifer Waelti-Waters | |
Merill and Freud: The Psychopathology of Eternal LifeD.L. Macdonald | |
Blindness and Self-Perception: The Autobiographies of Ved MehtaJohn M. Slatin | |
Artificial Intelligence: Hesse's Prophetic "Glass Bead Game"Timothy Leary |