Mosaic Journal

Issue 20.3

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Published: July 1987

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9 essays, totalling 136 pages

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Issue Summary

This truly eclectic grouping of essays discusses topics ranging from food and power to Deliverance and Georges Bataille. The nine essays in this general issue of Mosaic connect in unique ways, generally focusing on various artistic responses to paintings, Transcendentalism, or the individual and death. Specific topics include Denis Diderot and René Magritte, Loren Eiseley and Transcendentalism, and Octavio Paz’s mythic structure.

	"Ceci n'est pas..." Negative Framing in Diderot and Magritte Suzanne Rodin Pucci
	Loren Eiseley and the Transcendentalist Tradition Robert G. Franke
	Speculations: Contemporary Poetry and Painting Fred Moramarco
	Food and Power: Homer, Carroll, Atwood and Others Mervyn Nicholson
	In Search of the Tubercle Bacillus: The Death of Thomas Wolfe Frank C. Wilson
	Facing the Masks: Persona and Self in Nietzshe, Rilke and Mishima Graham Parkes
	"Un principe d'insuffisance": Dickey's Dialogue with Bataille Heinz Tschachler
	Undoing the Mona Lisa: Henry James's Quarrel with da Vinci and Pater Lynda S. Boren
	Mythic Transcendence: Octavio Paz, Mallarm? and Marcel Duchamp Claudia Rousseau

Issue 20.3

Overview

General Issue

Issue Summary

Contents

"Ceci n'est pas..." Negative Framing in Diderot and Magritte

Loren Eiseley and the Transcendentalist Tradition

Speculations: Contemporary Poetry and Painting

Food and Power: Homer, Carroll, Atwood and Others

In Search of the Tubercle Bacillus: The Death of Thomas Wolfe

Facing the Masks: Persona and Self in Nietzshe, Rilke and Mishima

"Un principe d'insuffisance": Dickey's Dialogue with Bataille

Undoing the Mona Lisa: Henry James's Quarrel with da Vinci and Pater

Mythic Transcendence: Octavio Paz, Mallarm? and Marcel Duchamp