This general issue of Mosaic offers eight essays that cross disciplinary boundaries, including musicology and literary studies, or race studies and British literature. Theory is scrutinized in considerations of postmodern historiography and feminist examinations of Katherine Anne Porter,… more...

Among the essays included in this general issue of Mosaic are considerations of Canadian canonicity, oral performance of medieval romances, maternal desire in Frederico García Lorca, and the techniques and myths of El Cid. The issue also contains… more...

This issue of Mosaic considers different critical theories: metanarrative and relativism in Western and Chinese apocalyptic literature, conceptualizing the individual’s relationship to society through New Historicism, marginal voices in Herman Melville, James Merrill’s holistic world view, gender politics… more...

Several essays in this general issue of Mosaic attempt to retrieve silenced or oppressed voices in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Herman Melville’s Redburn. Other essays make sense of troubling content and themes such as… more...

This general issue of Mosaic contains essays that explore the parallels of the archaic and the grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe, question how Charles Dickens helped form our social imaginary of the family, and read Emily Carr through… more...

This general issue of Mosaic features eight essays on a range of texts and topics, among them the confluence of literary and biblical criticism in Paul’s epistles, Anne Rice’s reflection of our own world in Interview with the… more...

Three of the seven essays in this general issue of Mosaic discuss texts that fall under the broad category of speculative fiction. These include examinations of Lord Byron’s closet drama “Manfred,” Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic short story “The… more...

With essays on such canonical texts as Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice, this general issue of Mosaic contains analyses of John Banville’s novella The Newton Theory, composer Alban Berg, and the nature of William Blake’s illustrations of John… more...

This double special issue on diet and discourse contains eleven essays that take orality as their theme. As Editor Evelyn J. Hinz writes in her introduction, “here the instrument of speech is allied with the orifice of ingestion.”… more...

This general issue of Mosaic boasts eight essays of broad focus. Two of the essays address non-literary media, focusing on the music of English airs and Japonisme, while others focus on non-traditional literary forms, including photo-fiction and prison… more...

Together the essays in this general issue of Mosaic address a significant range of the lived-human experience, many essays explicitly concerned with matters of affect. Essays in this collection are concerned with defeat, self-fashioning, suicide, sexuality, and belonging… more...

Possibilities and potential are at the forefront in this general issue of Mosaic. It offers new explanations and meaning to old challenges, including Chaucer’s scatology, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s experimentation, and the figurative and mythic possibilities of… more...

This special issue of Mosaic provides a predominantly twentieth-century focus, examining a wide range of literary texts that contemplate pre-, mid-, and post-war matters. The essays in this issue address many of the nineteenth-century wars that involved Western… more...

This general issue of Mosaic brings together an eclectic range of essays that examine early cyberpunk and postmodernism, linguistic metaphor and Renaissance portraiture, formal Renaissance sonnets and morphology, and Bildungsroman and career counselling. Other included essays examine detective… more...

This general issue of Mosaic begins with Sheldon Rothblatt’s 1989 Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture, “A Long Apocrypha of Inquiries: The Humanities and Humanity,” which examines the state of the humanities. The lecture contextualizes the essays that follow; they… more...

The majority of the essays in this general issue of Mosaic examine literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included essays consider the artist’s perspective in Victorian literature, James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, George Eliot’s Adam Bede, and… more...

The essays in this general issue of Mosaic investigate a range of narratives and genres, including visual art in D.H. Lawrence, women’s diaries, Vladimir Nabokov’s biography of Abram Gannibal, the film adaptation of A Room with a View… more...

Opening with an examination of Annie Dillard’s fascination with modern scientific theories and closing with an exploration of the hygienic ethos within Tobias Smollett’s early work, this general issue of Mosaic contains essays on the relationship between art… more...

This general issue of Mosaic offers nine essays that combine literary analysis with various other disciplines. Included are essays on Joseph Conrad and Impressionist painting, Samuel Beckett and neurology, D.M. Thomas and psychoanalysis, John Steinbeck and psychology, and… more...

A number of the essays in this general issue of Mosaic take art as their subject in some form, including examinations of Victorian art and the artistic dialogue of the mind with itself, verbal depictions of fantastic portraits,… more...