Issue 26.2 Information

This issue of Mosaic contains the following:

General Issue

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 in pre-Raphaelite art, and narrative in Don Quixote.

6 essays
, 128 pages
, $15.00 CAD

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 in pre-Raphaelite art, and narrative in Don Quixote.


Western and Chinese Eschatologies: Challenging Postmodernist Theory

Peter G. Crisp

Voicing Slavery Through Silence: Narrative Mutiny in Melville's Benito Cereno

John Haegert

Quantum Physics and the Ouija-Board: James Merrill's Holistic World View

C.A. Buckley

John Fowles's Pre-Raphaelite Woman: Interart Strategies and Gender Politics

Margaret Bozenna Goscilo

Cartesian Mirror/Quixotic Web: Toward a Narrativity of Desire

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Theorizing as Defeatism: A Pragmatic Defense of Agency

Sharon O'Dair