Issue 26.3 Information

This issue of Mosaic contains the following:

General Issue

Among the essays included in this general issue of Mosaic are considerations of Canadian canonicity, oral performance of medieval romances, maternal desire in Frederico García Lorca, and the techniques and myths of El Cid. The issue also contains examinations of how the unconscious shapes media and why Ben-Hur captivated the late-nineteenth-century imagination.

6 essays
, 120 pages
, $15.00 CAD

Among the essays included in this general issue of Mosaic are considerations of Canadian canonicity, oral performance of medieval romances, maternal desire in Frederico García Lorca, and the techniques and myths of El Cid. The issue also contains examinations of how the unconscious shapes media and why Ben-Hur captivated the late-nineteenth-century imagination.


A Country Without a Canon?: Canadian Literature and the Esthetics of Idealism

Robert Lecker

Psycholinguistic Theory and Modern Performance: Memory as a Key to Variants in Medieval Texts

Linda Marie Zaerr and Mary Ellen Ryder

Bulwer, Bloch, Bussotti and the Filial Muse: Recalled and Foreseen Sources of Inspiration

Allan C. Christensen

"To the Heart of Solid Puritans": Historicizing the Popularity of Ben-Hur

Paul Gutjahr

The Deconstruction and Construction of Maternal Desire: Yerma and Die Frau ohne Schatten

Silvia Tubert

Mythic and Cinematic Traditions in Anthony Mann's El Cid

Martin M. Winkler