In this special issue of Mosaic, pilgrimage is analyzed both as a strategy of resistance to oppositional hierarchies and as riddled with problematic oppositions. The essays in this issue approach the theme from a range of theories, including… more...

Essays in this general issue of Mosaic revolve around one or more of four central themes: reading, re-reading, reconsidering identity, and reconsidering history. Look for essays examining the relation between art and being, postmodern reconsiderations of Joseph Stalin,… more...

In this general issue of Mosaic, narratives of nation and power are examined, questioned, challenged, and complicated. Nationalities, race, and identity from around the world are central in essays that explore British justice through Savoy operas, Haitian and… more...

An interview with Canadian scholar and author Aritha van Herk opens this general issue of Mosaic. “Crossings,” the title given to the journal’s new series of interviews, is central as a theme for many of the ten essays… more...

This special issue of Mosaic includes twelve essays and an interview that engage a range of topics related to the interdisciplinary relations between literature and architecture. The issue’s opening interview with renowned architect Álvaro Siza is balanced by… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains ten essays, most of which focus on images, biography, colonialism, and the body. It opens with an essay by W.J.T. Mitchell, who examines the agency of images in social conflicts. Other essays… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains nine essays of a particularly interdisciplinary emphasis. The issue opens with a roundtable discussion about interdisciplinary studies with Editor Dawne McCance, Sander Gilman, Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon, and Helen Tiffin. The disciplines… more...

In Part II of the special issue on haunting, the essays emphasize the theme of citations. This issue opens with an interview of John P. Leavey, Jr., followed by ten essays covering the Middle Ages to contemporary periods.… more...

“The specter, in this special issue of Mosaic, is a theoretical and political ‘reality’ that haunts the discourse of the centre,” writes Editor Dawne McCance in her introduction. Of particular note is her interview, alongside Robert Kroetsch, with… more...

This general issue of Mosaic boasts two interviews: one with Mary Ann Caws and another with Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon. These interviews suitably accompany eight essays that focus on various approaches to “the gaze.” Several essays, including… more...

This special issue of Mosaic contains twelve essays that explore aspects unique to the reading, writing, and meaning of children’s literature from around the world. While the imaginary is relevant to most of these essays, it is considered… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains diverse essays loosely arranged around representation, psychology, identity, and various kinds of economy. The essays reconsider aspects of the Oedipal myth, Lacanian rhetoric, Shakespearian economies, and Holocaust representation. Other essays examine texts… more...

This special issue of Mosaic brings together literature and medicine in ways that do not subsume one to the other: there is no oppositional structure as such. Among the twelve essays are entries addressing topics of gender, race,… more...

This general issue of Mosaic includes essays that focus on framing narratives of power and the place of minority voices. Among these are essays examining the New York Ballet and The Nutcracker, national discourse in No-No Boy and… more...

Central to this issue of Mosaic is the imagetext, a concept put forth by W.J.T. Mitchell. Appropriately, then, this issue opens with an interview of Mitchell, conducted by Christine Wiesenthal and Brad Bucknell. Among the eight essays that… more...

“In this, its first issue of the millennium and with a new Editor in place, Mosaic brings together ten essays that are, in varying ways, informed by contemporary French theory and its critical notion of différance, or of… more...

This general issue of Mosaic is both the last of the twentieth century and the last of long-time Editor Evelyn J. Hinz (1979-99). It contains essays on musical rhetoric in The Portrait of a Lady, rap as poetry,… more...

True to its interdisciplinary mandate, this general issue of Mosaic contains essays that seek new approaches to the study of literature and film, or that examine literature that has been created around the principles of other disciplines. Essays… more...

The ten essays in this general issue of Mosaic centre on four main themes: narrative and the other; literary anticipation of scientific and medical concepts; anthropological representations and cultural observations; and reading and interdisciplinary theory. It engages with… more...

Boasting a new look—inspired by the preceding year’s Interarts Project—this general issue of Mosaic features essays exploring authorship, violence, censorship, and economies. The essays address literature and film from the classic Oresteia to the late-twentieth-century The Comfort of… more...