The nine essays in this general issue of Mosaic consider authoritarian governments in relation to the etymology of utopias; examine the demands that Samuel Beckett’s and Paul Hindemith’s antithetical art places on their respective audience; and argue that… more...

Straddling science and Judaism, this general issue of Mosaic presents essays that apply physics to Gravity’s Rainbow, Freud’s theory of sexuality to Milton and St. Augustine, the nature of Macbeth’s cruelty to human psychology, and Marxism to F.… more...

Opening with a reprint of a poem by e. e. cummings, this special issue of Mosaic does not deny or repress death, but excavates the power that death and dying have over our psychology, philosophy, and literature. The… more...

Offering essays that explore the stage craft of sound in James Reaney, the lives and works of H.G. Wells and George Orwell, and the grotesque, this general issue also features essays that address Immanuel Kant, Julio Cortázar, D.H.… more...

This general issue of Mosaic features nine essays in English and French. Psychoanalysis is a commonly considered theory in this issue, with essays on the “psychohistorical mode” of Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland and the psychanalytic function of “play”… more...

With essays on Robert Kroetsch, Sinclair Ross, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, Susanna Moodie, and others, the twelve critical pieces in this special issue of Mosaic query and posit different narratives of and about Canada. This issue features a… more...

This general issue of Mosaic treats a wide variety of texts and genres from medieval allegory to contemporary screenwriting. Among other topics, this issue offers essays on the “doctrinal complexity” of John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, William Carlos Williams’s… more...

This special double issue of Mosaic on “Other Worlds” is, as Ray Bradbury writes, a keystone issue that, like fantasy and science fiction, simultaneously looks backward and forward at the history and future of ideas and metaphor. These… more...

Covering a broad range of topics from a vivid investigation of Vāk (language) and Hinduism to an exploration of Ezra Pound’s rhythm, this general issue of Mosaic also features essays on feminism and marriage theory in the English… more...

Durrant, Wordsworthian scholar, Professor, Royal Society of Canada member, and past Mosaic Board Member, is celebrated in this issue. Focusing not on his work, but on his broad interests and valuation of literature, this edition of Mosaic features… more...

Essays in this general issue of Mosaic look at religious tolerance and religious transcendence in G.E. Lessing; puns on Stéphane Mallarmé’s name; metaphoric and literal portrayals of incest as a Romantic trope; forms of female alienation in Bertolt… more...

Placing the spotlight on the Irish tradition in literature, this issue of Mosaic focuses on the question of what is distinctly Irish about literature and Irish Literature. With essays exploring the written and oral relationship, symbolic language, irony,… more...

This bilingual special issue of Mosaic contains twelve essays that explore the intersection of liturgical writings and practices and literature. Chronologically moving from the medieval period into Modernism, these essays explore the aesthetic, philosophical, social, and symbolic import… more...

Containing close readings of Shakespeare and D.H. Lawrence, this general issue of Mosaic also presents essays on the intersection of painting and poetry in the later life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a Dionysian reading of The Dream… more...

Moving from the metapsychology and musicography of Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus to the metaphysics and theology of John Henry Newman’s Arianism, this general issue of Mosaic focuses on issues of religion and reality. Essays examine Gnosticism and Heart… more...

This special issue of Mosaic contains essays on authors like Margaret Atwood, Margaret Lawrence, Rudy Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch, and Robertson Davies. Focused specifically on questions of identity, narrative, and belonging, these essays explore how the Canadian novel is… more...

This special issue focused on Anaïs Nin examines her life and writings in relation to the writers, artists, and intellectuals whom she knew. Although heavily focused on her diary, this collection also looks at Nin’s relationship with figures… more...

This general issue of Mosaic offers essays that circulate on themes of finding, losing, and searching. For example, essays go searching for a Canada between nationalism and regionalism, or find a silence in John Keats that loses the… more...

This issue of Mosaic includes essays that examine the relations between sight, sound, and letters in Samuel Beckett’s How it is; Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poetry; Malcolm Lowry’s Caustic and Dark as the Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid”;… more...

Offering a range of essays and criticism on Shakespeare and Shakespeare-based criticism, this special issue of Mosaic explores how Shakespeare is interpreted, staged, and embodied today [1977]. With essays from prominent scholars such as Marvin Spevack, Jan Kott,… more...