Published: April 1989
See the issue summary and contents below.
9 essays, totalling 136 pages
$15.00 CAD
Opening with an examination of Annie Dillard’s fascination with modern scientific theories and closing with an exploration of the hygienic ethos within Tobias Smollett’s early work, this general issue of Mosaic contains essays on the relationship between art and science, early versions of the Faustus myth, Ezra Pound’s Cantos, and William Faulkner’s debt to James Joyce.
Annie Dillard: Modern Physics in a Contemporary MysticSusan M. Felch | |
The Misrepresentation of Self: Werther versus GoetheAlice A. Kuzinar | |
The Social Other: Don Juan and the Genesis of the SelfKim Ian Michasiw | |
The "uneven mirrors" of Art and Science: Kunert and EscherValerie D. Greenberg | |
Versions of the "Primal Scene": Faulkner and UlyssesMichael Zeitlin | |
Right Eye and Left Heel: Ideological Origins of the Legend of FaustusMichael H. Keefer | |
The Dialogic Nature of Collage in Pound's CantosJacob Korg | |
The Search for Social Reality in Recent Literary TheoryCharles Molesworth | |
Smollett's Use of Medical Theory: Roderick Random and Peregrine PickleJohn McAllister |