Issue 3.1

Overview

Special Issue: Politics and Literature

Published: October 1969


See the issue summary and contents below.

 11 essays, totalling 126 pages

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Issue Summary

Focusing on the relationship between literature and politics, the essays and poems in this issue of Mosaic examine what is political about literature and what is literary about politics. The essays speak directly to questions regarding conservativism and the family novel, colonization in historical Canadian fiction, Georg Lukács, and Chinese literature.

Contents

Surrealism, Politics and Poetry

J.H. Matthews

Georges Lukacs et la Littérature

Henri Arvon

Chinese Literature Today

Rewi Alley

In the Centre of the Maelstrom

A Czech Correspondent

Some Recent Peoms

Miroslav Holub

Herbert and Yevtushenko: On Whose Side is History?

George Gömöri

La Guerre Civile Espagnole et la Littérature

Maryse Bertand de Muñoz

Six Theses on Literature and Politics

Reinhard Baumgart

The Politics of the Family Novel: Is Conservatism Inevitable?

Philip Thody

The Poor Man and the Dynasts

Herbert Howarth

The Politics of Conquest in Canadian Historical Fiction

Elizabeth Waterston