Issue 25.2 Information

This issue of Mosaic contains the following:

General Issue

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 Tell-Tale Heart,” and Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction novel The Dispossessed. Other essays consider “the propagandistic strength” of illustration in seventeenth-century English texts and the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud.

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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 Tell-Tale Heart,” and Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction novel The Dispossessed. Other essays consider “the propagandistic strength” of illustration in seventeenth-century English texts and the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud.


Seventeenth-Century Propaganda in English Book Illustration

Estella Schoenberg

Incest, Narcissism and Demonality in Byron's Manfred

D.L. Macdonald

"Moral Insanity" or Paradoid Schizophrenia: Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Brett Zimmerman

Radical Realism: Rimbaud's Affinities with Impressionism

Aim?eIsrael-Pelletier

The Cognitive and Mimetic Function of Absence in Art, Music and Literature

Timothy Walsh

Self-Translation as Self-Confrontation: Beckett's Mercier et/and Camier

Mich?le Praeger

Gender and the "Simultaneity Principle": Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed

Mario Klarer