The first in Mosaic’s “feature author” series, this issue, featuring Rodolphe Gasché, opens with a Gasché interview and two essays by him—on Walter Benjamin’s theory of film and on the “harmless detail” in Hegel’s Aesthetics. The issue includes… more...

A special issue that features a review of the current field of Antigone studies along with twelve studies that engage the figure and the play through the work of such critics as Hegel, Lacan, Butler, Agamben, Benjamin, Derrida,… more...

Questions of memory are central to this issue, explored through intergenerational haunting, the poetry and photography of mourning, video recall, montage, survivor stories, and place theory. When and how is repetition/recycling revolutionary? The nine essays collected in Volume… more...

This issue collects ten essays that take up concerns at the forefront of contemporary literary and critical theory. Reading fiction, sculpture, film, and philosophy, these essays contend with issues of race, nationalism, and colonialism; with discourses of sexuality… more...

Spatial theory, racial theory, trauma theory, feminist social theory: the ten essays collected in this issue read diaries, poetry, fiction, and film through a number of current theories. These essays approach the body, the black female body, as… more...

In several different ways, this issue explores "multimedia" writing. The ten essays collected here cross media and genres to engage such issues as: the relationship of writing to technology; adaptionist readings of novels; tensions between orality and writing;… more...

The essays in this very special issue of Mosaic were presented at the international and interdisciplinary conference, Following Derrida: Legacies, held at the University of Manitoba in October 2006. Set to mark the second anniversary of Jacques Derrida’s… more...

In this, its first issue of 2007, Mosaic presents a second special collection on the topic of "the animal," a companion issue to Volume 39.4, another twelve explorative and innovative contributions to an all-important new field. Look for… more...

This, the first of two Mosaic special issues on "the animal," includes essays on a broad range of topics: bears as postcard subjects; animal rights theory; literary anthropomorphism; the figure of the beast as significant for political theory… more...

This special memorial issue, After Derrida, engages the work of mourning. Thirteen contributors offer their remembrances of Jacques Derrida, who died on October 9, 2004, in essays that read his texts affectionately and with a view to their… more...

One of the compelling themes taken up in this issue is that of literature’s relation to violence. What is the “poetics of violence”? and what might be the relation of art to terror? Look for several different answers… more...

The first Mosaic issue of 2006 opens with another interview in the "Crossings" series, this one with David Farrell Krell, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, a distinguished scholar of European thought, critic, translator, and writer of fiction… more...

Beginning with a full color signature of artist Don Reichert's landscape paintings and digital photographs, this special issue includes twelve essays that read "the garden" in diverse and provocative ways. Here you will find, among other things, the… more...

Opening with two essays on cultural citizenship, and featuring additional essays on the colonial city, idolatry, ecology, gatronomy, masochism and trauma, this is a diverse general issue that is yet focused in its interrogating of narratives and histories… more...

How do particular narratives conflate violence and gift-giving? How does the gift betray a failure precisely through its affinity with violence? In this Mosaic issue, ten outstanding essays reflect on "the gift," primitivism, sadomasochism, nationalism, victimization, trauma, the… more...

Following the current Mosaic special issue, The Photograph, volume 38.1 will feature "the photograph" again. Look for ten original essays covering such topics and titles as: photographic realism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children; photographic media in W. G.… more...

This special issue features selected papers and three keynote presentations from Mosaic's March 2004 international interdisciplinary conference, The Photograph. The issue, like the conference, is bound to be another major international event. This is a color issue of… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains twelve essays that explore and dramatize loss and the ego’s attempts at recovery and control; the subject severed, if not split; the subject and object in opposition; retrieval and repetition; cries in… more...

The essays in this general issue of Mosaic collectively take a particular interest in writing, memory, and autobiography. Essays in the issue consider the links between autobiography, visual representations, and self; memory, mourning, and melanxiety; autobiography, painting, and… more...

This general issue of Mosaic offers the variety expected of an interdisciplinary journal, while notably making succinct comparisons, translations, and critical examinations of both expected and unexpected pairings. Look for essays examining literature and architecture; word and image;… more...