This double special issue of Mosaic contains seventeen papers originally presented at an international conference held at the University of Manitoba in 1986, the goal of which was to assert the vitality of interdisciplinary literary scholarship and to… more...

This general issue of Mosaic opens with an examination of Lady Chatterley’s Lover’s historic moral and legal challenges, written by acclaimed novelist J.M. Coetzee. Further discussion of potentially subversive material is found in an essay focused on Arnold… more...

At the core of each of the twelve essays that make up this special issue of Mosaic is conflict. Conflict, moreover is at the core of all life-writing, suggests Editor Evelyn Hinz in her introduction to this edition.… more...

This truly eclectic grouping of essays discusses topics ranging from food and power to Deliverance and Georges Bataille. The nine essays in this general issue of Mosaic connect in unique ways, generally focusing on various artistic responses to… more...

The essays in this general issue of Mosaic touch on a number of arts and explore a range of mental processes found both in the art itself and in its creation. Essays in this issue refer to the… more...

This general issue of Mosaic opens with an essay by Margaret Drabble, which she first presented as the ninth annual Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture on October 30, 1985 at the University of Manitoba: “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality… more...

Featuring an essay on Herman Hesse and artificial intelligence by Timothy Leary, this double special issue of Mosaic explores the dreaming, paranormal, and parapsychological intersections of consciousness, culture, and literature. Available in two volumes, this special issue also… more...

Opening with an essay on Thomas Mann, the fall, the transcendent, and the imprisoning nature of language, this general issue of Mosaic also offers essays on the unsettled and uncanny narcissism of Frederick Philip Grove; the travelogue of… more...

This general issue of Mosaic appropriately opens with George H. Ford’s “Openers and Overtures in Dickens’ Novels: ‘In My Beginning is My End’,” originally presented as the eighth annual Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture on October 11, 1984 at… more...

This special issue of Mosaic explores the seemingly inescapable relationship between music and words in twelve exciting essays. Guest-edited by John Rempel and Ursula Rempel, this issue celebrates the tercentennial of the births of Bach and Handel, yet… more...

Visual parallels and influences are the focus of a number of essays in this general issue. Essays in this issue consider the Surrealism induced by the photos of Michael Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter, the analogous relation between Sergei… more...

The essays in this general issue of Mosaic challenge a number of long-standing interpretations of key literary texts, many by introducing new perspectives with which to reconsider the texts’ theoretical or historical contexts. Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Wall” is… more...

Walter Ong provides the opening essay to this general issue of Mosaic, a transcript of his lecture “Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,” which was presented at the University of Manitoba as the seventh annual Sidney Warhaft Memorial… more...

This eclectic general issue of Mosaic includes a range of topics and covers various periods, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The issue opens with an intriguing question about what literary criticism can learn from the scientific method… more...

This general issue of Mosaic focuses on the intersections of art and writing and the limits of art and the artist to engage with and represent the world. With essays looking at the visual poems of Michel Butor… more...

How has the portrayal of marriage in literature changed over time? Has it? In what ways? Do we even need marriage? Has anyone not suffered in marriage? This special double issue of Mosaic brings together one set of… more...

The eight essays in this general issue of Mosaic cover a wide range of topics, many of which approach unique questions about history and/or genre. Topics include Shakespeare’s political theatre, the literary cultures of nineteenth-century Paris and London,… more...

This general issue of Mosaic includes eight unique essays that explore various interplays between literature and other forms art, including music and images. These essays focus on the word of William Blake, Anthony Burgess, and Shakespeare. These and… more...

This special double issue of Mosaic is guest-edited by University of Manitoba Distinguished Professor George Toles. Included are essays on the theory of film, film adaptation and a range of film genres. Also included are essays about filmmaker… more...

This general issue of Mosaic considers the ability of certain theories to sufficiently articulate meaning about the world and the literature that describes it. Among the explored concepts are notions of game and play, science, social theory, and… more...