Issue 3.2 Information

This issue of Mosaic contains the following:

General Issue

This issue of Mosaic primarily concerns itself with the role of art in today’s challenging cultural, social, and industrial world. It includes essays on the Prometheus myth; censorship of Soviet literature and its impact on the critic; the role of divine creation in Renaissance poetics; Doulas Le Pan’s poetry; science and art, technology and art, and art’s role in society; John Barth’s absurd writing; and the poetry of Anacreon.

11 essays
, 166 pages
, $15.00 CAD

This issue of Mosaic primarily concerns itself with the role of art in today’s challenging cultural, social, and industrial world. It includes essays on the Prometheus myth; censorship of Soviet literature and its impact on the critic; the role of divine creation in Renaissance poetics; Doulas Le Pan’s poetry; science and art, technology and art, and art’s role in society; John Barth’s absurd writing; and the poetry of Anacreon.


The Vertical Axis: The Ambiguities of Prometheus

Jan Kott

The Difficulty of Writing about Soviet Literature

Elizaveth Mark

Ars Aeterna: Renaissance Poetics and Theories of Divine Creation

Mauren-Sofie Røstvig

European Emblem and Canadian Image: A Study of Douglas Le Pan's Poetry

S.C. Hamilton

Rencontres: Gide et Green

Slava M. Kushnir

Knowledge and Delusion in the Iliad

Martin Mueller

Art in Industrial Society

Ivan Svitak

John Barth: Imitations of Imitations

Jean E. Kennard

The Poet of Love and Wine

Edmund Berry

Pacey on Canadian Literature

M.K. Singleton

Night Thoughts, in the Broad Light of Day

R.G. Collins