Issue 5.3

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Special Issue: New Views on the European Novel

Published: April 1972


See the issue summary and contents below.

 21 essays, totalling 240 pages

 $15.00 CAD


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Issue Summary

This issue of Mosaic consists of ten essays about French literature, including examinations of the high Romanticism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the “post-classism” of Gustave Flaubert, the stylized art of Émile Zola, the homely craft of Jules Vallès, and the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. Also included are eight articles on German literature, including a survey of the novels of the divided Germanies and examinations of Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, Goethe and Pär Lagerkvist.

Contents

Growing Pains in the Contemporary German Novel - East and West

Jack D. Zipes

Uwe Johnson's Anti-Liberalism

W.G. Cunliffe

Friedriech Dürrenmatt, Escape Artist

Renate Usmiani

The Death of Language in Death in Venice

Graham Good

Technique and Function of Time in Hesse's Morgenlandfahrt: A Culmination

Karen Crenshaw and Richard H. Lawson

Goethe's Wanderjahreas as an Experimental Novel

Ehrhard Bahr

Werther Revisited: Two Hundred Years of a Masterpiece

Menno Spann

The Infernal Fairy Tale: Inversion of Archetypal Motifs in Modern European Literature

Horst S. Daemmrich

Pär Lagerkvist: The Dwarf and Dogma

Roger Ramsey

Vittorini's Multiple Resources of Style: Conversazione in Sicilia

Bruce Merry

The Primitive World of Giovanni Verga

S. B. Chandler

Les Paliers de Décompression (1922-1972)

Claude Mauriac

"Quelqu'un" in Robert Pinget's Fiction

Steven G. Kellman

Bernanos - un "Dostoïevsky Français?"

William Bush

La Nausée and the Avators of Being

Eugene N. Zimmerman

Cocteau's Les Enfants terribles As a Blind Text

Leon S. Roudiez

Delinquent Parents; Jules Vallès and L'Enfant

W.D. Redfern

L'Evangile Social de Travail: un anti-Geminal

Henri Mitterand

Zola's Thérèse Raquin: A Re-Evaluation

Lilian R. Furst

A Triad of Images: Nature in Madame Bovary

Margaret Church

The Rhythm of Memory: Mood and Imagination in The Confessions of Rousseau

Stanley Corngold