Issue 26.1

Overview

General Issue

Published: January 1993


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 7 essays, totalling 128 pages

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Issue Summary

Several essays in this general issue of Mosaic attempt to retrieve silenced or oppressed voices in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Herman Melville’s Redburn. Other essays make sense of troubling content and themes such as suicide, representations of war, and George Orwell’s 1984.

Contents

Legitimacy in Interpretation: The Bastard Voice in Troilus and Cressida.

Peter Hyland

The Werther Effect: The Esthetics of Suicide

Tobin Siebers

Le Retour au Pr?oedipien: Salammb? et Le Rejet du Patriarcat

Aouicha Elosmani Hilliard

Social History and the Politics of Manhood in Melville's Redburn

Joyce A. Rowe

Figuring the Absent Corpse: Strategies of Representation in World War I

Allyson Booth

"Hungry man is an angry man": A Marxist Reading of Consumption in Joyce's Ulysses

Trevor L. Williams

Chaos versus Contingency Theory: Epistemological Issues in Orwell's 1984

Alexander J. Argyros