Published: April 1974
See the issue summary and contents below.
15 essays, totalling 182 pages
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This general issue of Mosaic centres on the theme of crisis: emotional crisis, spiritual crisis, sexual crisis, and a crisis of form. Each of these essays examine crises within the vast scope of continental and English writing, specifically the writing of Goethe, Stendhal, William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Jan Van Eyck, Shakespeare, John Dryden, Thomas Malory, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf.
Enclosure, The Adversary Culture, and the Nature of the NovelFrederick R. Karl | |
Goethe's Tragedy: A View of Elective AffinitiesIrvin Stock | |
Abelard's Fate: Sexual Politics in Stendhal, Faulkner and CamusWilliam J. Palmer | |
Camus' The Fall and Van Eyck's The Adoration of the LambJeffrey Meyers | |
Twelfth Night: Folly's Talents and the Ethics of Shakespearean ComedyF. B. Tromly | |
The Importance of Right Reason in Dryden's ConversionRobert McHenry, Jr. | |
From Malory to Tennyson: Spiritual Triumph to Spiritual DefeatCelia Morris | |
Early Experience and Scientific Determinism in Twain and HardyHoward O. Brogan | |
The Rescue: Conrad and the Rhetoric of DiplomacyGary Geddes | |
The Shattered Moment: Form and Crisis in Mrs. Dalloway and Between the ActsJonathan R. Quick | |
Romanticism TodayJohn E. Clubbe | |
Rossetti as PainterRalph Berry | |
Putting Freud in his PlaceRobert Keefe | |
The Poetry of James WrightCor van den Heuvel | |
Poem: Beatrice to Dante: by another handElizabeth Sewell |