This issue of Mosaic considers the many ways in which sociological theories illuminate literature and how the inverse might also be true. Ian Birchall asks whether social scientists have anything to learn from literature in addition to historical… more...

Nearly half of the essays in this general issue of Mosaic focus on the work of John Millington Synge, including analyses of his relationship to Western Ireland, his relationship to the dramatic medium, a short biographical sketch, and… more...

This general issue of Mosaic covers a wide range of topics including Old Icelandic literature, William Wordsworth’s relationship to science, Wallace Stevens, Tristan L’Hermite, idealistic realism, modern Canadian literature, and the playwright Paul Green. more...

This issue of Mosaic explores new perspectives on the English and American novel, focusing specifically on the novel’s experimentalist goal to understand the nature of the world. Considered authors include Anthony Powell, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoevsky,… more...

This issue of Mosaic takes a broad and diverse approach to Scandinavian literature, touching on the Icelandic Book of Settlements; the Icelandic family sagas; the interpretation of the relationship between the Valdemars and Tove or Tovelil; the influence… more...

This general issue of Mosaic covers a wide range of material that is loosely organized around the trajectory and influence of various myths, characters, and techniques of well-known authors, including Christopher Marlowe, John Updike, and Wallace Stevens. The… more...

This issue of Mosaic focuses on the work of Franz Kafka, examining topics such as sex and marriage, the Romantic imagination, and socialist politics. In addition, Kafka’s process and approach to writing and his complicated bond with Czech… more...

Focused on Manitoba and its literature, this issue of Mosaic provides criticism on Ralph Connor, Frederick Philip Grove, Ukrainian Literature in Manitoba, Icelandic influence in Manitoban literature, and the University of Manitoba as a “literary environment.” The issue… more...

This issue of Mosaic primarily concerns itself with the role of art in today’s challenging cultural, social, and industrial world. It includes essays on the Prometheus myth; censorship of Soviet literature and its impact on the critic; the… more...

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… more...

This issue of Mosaic considers a variety of approaches to twentieth-century poetry, including the international movement of poetic symbolism. Other essays in the issue examine the “imagination’s power to destroy the poet” evidenced by Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus,”… more...

This issue of Mosaic focuses on the myths and “metaphorical motifs” that are recurrent in literature in an effort to understand their significance and value. Specific myths and motifs discussed include the father motif, the “Canadian myth,” and… more...

This general issue of Mosaic considers the relation between cultural and social challenges and the literature that attempts to destabilize them. The issue contains examinations of racial power dynamics, Shelley’s The Necessity of Atheism, and “socialist realism” created… more...

This issue of Mosaic considers the role of alienation in literature, including the sense of alienation found in works by Jean-Paul Sartre, Oscar Wilde, Stefan George, Friedrich Schiller, Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett, and Eugene O’Neill.… more...

In his essay, John J. Reich quotes Richard Wagner, who argues that the “essence of our art today” is intimately connected with the “art of ancient Greeks” because of the Greek impact on Europe. This issue of Mosaic… more...

Including both critical and creative work written within and about “small countries,” this issue considers the impact of literature on the maintenance and reinvigoration of cultural and national identities and the importance of remembering regional linguistic and cultural… more...

This issue of Mosaic considers the carnality of love and the ways in which the act of loving, or “love-making,” has been examined in literature from Greek society to the Marquis de Sade to contemporary Canadian poetry. Brigid… more...

Mosaic’s first issue explores the relationship between literature and history. It includes essays on a diverse range of literatures, including Icelandic sagas, Canadian writing, Crime and Punishment, and the Old Testament, and the histories that they illuminate or… more...