This special issue of Mosaic offers a series of essays on the works of canonical high fantasy authors, such as J.R.R. Tolkien and T.H. White and critical explorations of fantasy elements in the work of W.B. Yeats, Edith… more...

This general issue includes essays in English and French on Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll House,” Jean Racine, Gustave Flaubert’s Félicité, Robinson Crusoe, and Absalom, Absalom!. more...

R.G. Collins opens this special issue of Mosaic with an essay titled “Nineteenth Century Literary Humor: The Wit and Warmth of Wiser Men?” in which the central question is: What is humour? In this issue we find essays… more...

Thematically linked by questions of escape, the spectral, symbolism, myth, and religiosity, and through a focus on poetics and language, this issue of Mosaic offers a variety of essays on writers both modern and classic, including Jules Vallès,… more...

This entirely Canadian-authored issue addresses Mosaic’s goal of helping to provide space for contributions by Canadian scholars.” With essays on Shakespeare, Réjean Ducharme, Thomas Malory, Elizabeth Gaskell, Daniel Defoe, Ezra Pound, and others, this issue showcases the wide… more...

With essays examining a variety of texts including Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Katherine Anne Porter’s “Noon Wine,” and Goethe’s Dir Leiden des jungen Werther, this issue of Mosaic has two thematic threads: exile and origins. more...

Combing matters of literature, history, and linguistics, this issue of Mosaic examines the rise (and sometimes the fall) of vernacular literatures in England, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, and Spain. Vernacular literatures are explored as both a break… more...

Beginning with a series of illustrations of Russian prison camps by Polish artist Adam Kossowski, this issue of Mosaic goes on to investigate themes of exile across a span of national literatures and literary genres. Included are essays… more...

Interrogating how we define, experience, and study literature, this issue of Mosaic explores a series of relationships: between literature and its readers, between students and teachers; between illustrators, authors, and texts; and between disparate texts. Included are essays… more...

Named after a conference held at Stanford University in November 1973, this issue of Mosaic addresses a series of questions with both creative and critical essays: In what ways does writing a novel resemble painting? What is it… more...

Eugene Paul Nassar writes that “criticism ought to be the art or act of responding with precision to the subtlest tonalities of a unique work of art.” The essays in this issue of Mosaic do just that, attending… more...

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… more...

This issue of Mosaic highlights the work of a number of lesser-known writers including Elias Canetti, Mihail Sadoveanu, Frederick Rolfe, and Hans Henny Jahnn. Further, it includes essays examining the “apocalyptic framework” of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, Rudyard… more...

This issue of Mosaic offers a contribution to the “critical interpretation of William Faulkner that proceeds by many paths; they not only complement each other but suggest additionally the richness of the territory traversed.” The paths taken here… more...

This issue of Mosaic explores Jean-Paul Sartre’s claim that the Eastern European writer has “something to write about,” in that he is compelled to work on a scale of public responsibility unavailable to his essentially more private Western… more...

This general issue of Mosaic covers a diverse range of subjects and topics, including Jessie Chambers’s comments on D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Friedrich Nietzsche and myth, Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s “revival,” John Skelton’s poetry,… more...

This issue of Mosaic considers Marcel Proust’s reception in the USSR, the multiple-narrative structure of The Alexandria Quartet, Thomas Mann’s view of Goethe and Schiller “as personalities,” the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy, Samuel Beckett, Leo Tolstoy’s War and… more...

Fifty years after the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Mosaic offers a variety of new critical perspectives on both texts. Authors herein discuss the influence of psychoanalysis on Ulysses and Joyce’s use… more...

This issue of Mosaic includes a wide ranging and dynamic group of essays. They include analyses of Chaucer (one on Numerology and one on analytical thought), emblematic literature, the sonata form in August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata, the… more...

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,… more...