The final issue of The Interarts Project returns to questions raised in the first and second issues that concern whether the arts were ever separate and how culture and the artist create art. Framing the issue in terms… more...

Part three of The Interarts Project focuses on the intersections of women, femininity, representation, and art. The history of art and womanhood/femininity, as well as the state of interart and feminist theory, follow similar paths. Can feminism bring… more...

In the second of four special issues, Mosaic moves from asking how the arts are interrelated to asking what the arts do as culture and what is culture for the arts. What is culture, what is art, and… more...

The first of four parts of Mosaic’s special Interarts Project, this issue asks how the arts are interrelated. Looking at multi-media artists and interactive arts, this issue features essays on word, image, and narrative relations in illuminated manuscripts;… more...

Uneasy or unexpected identity formation is central to many of the essays in this general issue of Mosaic. It contains essays on identity in Ernest Hemingway’s memoirs, repressed incestuous rape in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary, fabrication metaphor and Charles… more...

Whereas some critics see androgyny as a mode of resistance to established sexual norms and as a positive and liberating concept, for others it is a nefarious anodyne and a “myth” that must be resisted. This special issue… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains essays that engage a range of philosophical questions concerning language, emotion, and sexuality. The essays address Mikhail Bakhtin’s carnivalesque and intoxication, envy in Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez, gender in “Rapunzel’s” sources,… more...

This general issue marks thirty years of publication for Mosaic and an innovation in style. It introduces a “Reader’s Response” forum to foster dialogue among Mosaic’s community of writers and readers. This issue includes essays on paradox and… more...

From John Donne’s representation of Sappho’s lesbian desire to the future of hypertext and electronic literature, this general issue of Mosaic contains essays on theories of dialogue and speech; autobiography, style, and the knowing subject; colour theory, Samuel… more...

As Editor Evelyn J. Hinz asks in her introductory essay to this special issue of Mosaic, how does one conceptualize multiculturalism? Ought it be done with space, time, distance, and technology in mind? Ought it be done solely… more...

The six essays in this general issue of Mosaic broadly focus on how (re)formation happens: be it how print was reforming England with Shakespeare, how the female and model co-formed each other in nineteenth-century painting, or how trauma… more...

In anticipation of Mosaic’s upcoming special issue on otherness, this general issue offers essays on other (minor, postcolonial, Chinese) literature, other (female) desire, other literary traditions, and the future as other. The essays engage with a range of… more...

“To the extent that media constitute the operating system for both the private and social body, there is a sense that we have yet to achieve the appropriate level [of discourse and analysis] to discuss the totalizing effects… more...

This issue of Mosaic contains essays exploring “true religion” and faith in John Milton’s Samson Agonistes, intertextuality and Polish signs in Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, canon politics and D.H. Lawrence, hysterical personalities in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman,… more...

This issue of Mosaic includes essays focusing on text-centred forms of contextualizations, postmodernism and Pedro Calderón’s Life’s a Dream, William Godwin’s understanding of truth, William Wordsworth and neural Darwinism, D.H. Lawrence’s relationships and thermodynamics, postmodern Realism and Anita… more...

This issue of Mosaic includes essays focusing on the potential contributions of cognitive linguistics to literary and critical studies, nineteenth-century Irish travelogues, George Eliot’s treatment of wills, D.H. Lawrence and masturbation, parody and paranoia in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin,… more...

This special issue of Mosaic, guest-edited by Trevor Anderson and Anne McGillivray, contains twelve essays that examine the intersections and representations of literature and law. The essays explore matters of style and rhetoric, fictional and non-fictional representations, and… more...

This issue of Mosaic opens with a French essay that considers originality as a comparable value of both classic literature and American cinema. The five essays that follow it explore a diverse set of topics: madrigal and lute… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains essays on symbolism in the Odyssey, seventeenth-century garden theory and La Princesse de Clèves, literature and painting in the eighteenth century, an impasse between philosophy and literature, a Lacanian reading of A… more...

This general issue of Mosaic includes essays that examine cruelty toward animals, cruelty toward the working class in Platoon, excrement in James Joyce, death and structuralism in D.H. Lawrence, cognitive linguistics and Henry James, and the history of… more...