Issue 25.4 Information

This issue of Mosaic contains the following:

General Issue

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 her paintings and writings to better understand female autobiography. It also presents essays that examine gender and race in Toni Morrison, similarities between Soviet literature and postmodernism, psychoanalytic approaches to Sam Shepard, and much more.

8 essays
, 144 pages
, $15.00 CAD

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 her paintings and writings to better understand female autobiography. It also presents essays that examine gender and race in Toni Morrison, similarities between Soviet literature and postmodernism, psychoanalytic approaches to Sam Shepard, and much more.


An Irruption of the Archaic: Poe and the Grotesque

Norman Ravvin

Disciplining the Family in Barnaby Rudge: Dickens's Professionalization of Fiction

Charles Hatten

Loss, Anxiety, and Cure: Mourning and Creativity in Silas Marner

Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone

Esthetic Autonomy in the Sister Arts: The Brotherly Project of Rossetti and Morris

Constance W. Hassett

Passing Through the Jungle: Emily Carr and Theories of Women's Autobiography

Nancy Pagh

Power, Language and Gender: Writing "History" in Beloved and Obasan

Margaret E. Turner

The Borderline Dilemma in Paris, Texas: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Sam Shepard

Donald L. Carveth

Minimalism and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire Style

Michael Szporer