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Mosaic Special Issue: Between Poetry and Philosophy
What is happening in the space between poetry and philosophy today? The thirteen essays collected in the March 2012 Mosaic special issue take up this question―in thirteen different ways. For example, in one essay, Heidegger’s question, “What is the thing?” is directed to the “thingness” of poetry; another essay reads Mark McMorris’s experimental (postcolonial) poetics alongside the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; still another reads Erin Mouré’s O Cadoiro with Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever. Plato is brought together with Giorgio Agamben, Wallace Stevens with Roland Barthes, and the poet with the philosopher in Nietzsche’s writing. This is a special issue.
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Mosaic Special Issue: Freud After Derrida, Part II
This is the second of two special issues featuring selected proceedings from the Mosaic October 2010 Freud After Derrida conference. Papers from two of the conference keynote speakers open this special issue, which also includes essays on the archive, spectrality, mourning, chance, the crypt(ic), resistance, and ethical-political responsibility.
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Mosaic Special Issue: Freud After Derrida, Part I
This is the first of two special issues that publish proceedings from the Mosaic October 2010 Freud After Derrida conference. Three of the conference keynote speakers and nine presenters are featured in this issue, which addresses such themes as: inheritance, the death-drive, Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle, that text's story of the fort/da game, sovereignty, photography, telepathy, democracy, autoimmunity, animal transference, justice, and the unconscious.
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Mosaic General Issue: June 2011
This general issue models the interdisciplinarity that Mosaic is all about. It includes eleven essays that engage a diverse range of topics, among them: ecocrticial theory’s theory, animal ethics, the status of “the subject,” the gaze, trauma and the “wounded” body, the public/private dichotomy and the division between high and low culture, diasporic translocation and “the multicultural question” in Malaysia, migration, incorporating European folklore into Okanagan traditions of story, indolence and creativity in the Beatles and in British Romanticism.
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Mosaic Special Issue: Kristin Linklater / The Santorini Voice Symposium
This Mosaic special issue features an interview with renowned teacher and theorist of voice, Kristin Linklater, essays on her work, and contributions from actors and philosophers who participated in the Linklater-led Santorini Voice Symposium.
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Mosaic General Issue: December 2010
This is an issue of wonderful collaborations and juxtapositions. Look for essays that explore unexpected literary and critical hinges: that read Salman Rushdie together with Jean-Luc Nancy, William Faulkner with space theory, Gertrude Stein with Alfred North Whitehead, Jean Rhys with Tayeb Salih, Lawrence Durrell with Henri Bergson, and eighteenth-century novels with contemporary video games. Writing is figured as an Orphic journey in the poetry of the Iraqi Assyrian exile Sargon Boulus. White Americans’ ideas about blackness in the 1970s and 1980s are approached through Raymond Carver’s incorporation of African American characters in his short stories. Elizabeth Moon’s novel about autism is read against contemporary cognitive science. And theories of cultural hybridity are brought to a reading of Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz.
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Mosaic Special Issue: Sculpture
According to Hegel, since it transforms mere stone or wood into the human figure, sculpture constitutes the proper centre of classical art and is at best complemented by poetry. What has happened that enables Arthur Danto to suggest that sculpture is postmodernism’s privileged form? This stunning special issue provides answers and provokes new questions for literary and critical theory. The issue, rich in images, includes essays on the work of Marilène Oliver, Kitahara Hakushū and Suda Yoshihiro, Doris Salcedo, Antony Gormley, Sylvia Wynter and Willie Bester, Anna King and Valerie Gillies, Constantin Brancusi, and Patricia Cronin.
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Mosaic General Issue: March 2010
This is a richly interdisciplinary issue: ten essays that bring literary-critical insights to bear on comics, film, fiction, music, vocality, phonography, photography, cartography, psychology, phrenology, and history of science. From Brokeback Mountain to “The Fall of the House of Usher,” from postcards to poetics, this is an issue to read and enjoy.
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Mosaic General Issue, Featuring Peggy Kamuf
Featuring a Mosaic “Crossings” series interview with, and two essays by, Peggy Kamuf, this is a fascinating issue that engages opera, criticism, poetry, fiction, fairy tale and film, and that includes essays on the work of Hélène Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy, Emil Cioran, Eamon Grennan, Jean-Luc Nancy and Benedict Anderson.
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Mosaic General Issue: September 2009
This general issue includes eleven essays, at least four of which deal with “nature” (ecology, eco-poetics) as a prominent theme, approached in two cases through “trees”: through human/arboreal relations and through gendered “tree-scapes” in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright. Gender, another concern in the issue, is explored through the masculinities of V.S. Naipaul’s male protagonists. Other questions taken up in this issue include the link between art and community, the problem of remembering in the absence of eyewitness accounts, and aesthetic modes of resistance to colonialism, militarism, and capitalist commodity fetishism.
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Mosaic Special Issue: Sound, Part 2
In this, the second of a two-part Mosaic special issue on Sound, “voice” emerges as a prominent theme, approached through studies of voice recording, queer vocality, memory, archive, sound poetry, iteration, and the figure of Echo. The issue also includes essays on “sound images” in silent film, music and narrative, and sonic elements in a BBC TV science-fiction series.
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Mosaic Special Issue: Sound, Part 1
This issue, the first of a two-part special, takes the study of sound into literary and critical practices where work on visuality and the gaze has held sway, and it suggests the importance sound studies hold for the blurring of oppositional boundaries. The thirteen essays collected here engage sound as a medium for interrogating identity, for improvising multiculturalism, as well as for approaching subjectivity as a technological extension; sound as wordless and as found in silence; and sound as gesture. The issue includes explorations of the history of sound; of the soundings of a text; of the sound archive; and of the multimedial basis of psychoanalysis. There is an interest here in “irreducible openness.” The issue attempts to take down boundaries—between the senses, between cultures, between performer and text.
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Special Issue: Blindness
This issue will bring together critical and disability theories to address historical and contemporary studies and interpretations of blindness across various genres, as well as studies of, to use Samuel Weber’s title words (in Institution and Interpretation), “The Blindness of the Seeing Eye.” We seek submissions relating to any of the following: blindness as disability; blindness in theory; exposition or exposé; architecture’s historical and contemporary engagements with light and sight; humanism; image; history and philosophy of the senses; sexual difference; autobiography; surveillance; spectacle; animal ethics; perception; psychoanalysis; prosthesis; weeping; vision and visuality; haunting; gaze; the frontal perspective.
Deadline for submissions: April 16, 2012.
If you would like to contribute an essay for review, please refer to the Submit an Essay section of our website.
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Mosaic invites provocative interdisciplinary submissions that identify and engage key issues in a variety of areas including: literary theory, postcolonial literatures and the idea of community, the interrelations of literature and film, literature and photography, the archive, the literary signature, and the poetics of space.
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