Abstract:Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man is a disturbing and original contribution to the modern Jesus-novel. It is an exploration of the "truth" of Christianity, using ideas from Nietzsche, Jung, and Freud as part of a classic SF time-travel-loop paradox which forces the reader to think deeply about what the "imitation of Christ" might really mean.
{"title":"The Imitation of Christ: Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man","authors":"R. Wymer","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man is a disturbing and original contribution to the modern Jesus-novel. It is an exploration of the \"truth\" of Christianity, using ideas from Nietzsche, Jung, and Freud as part of a classic SF time-travel-loop paradox which forces the reader to think deeply about what the \"imitation of Christ\" might really mean.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"109 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86343487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The essay explores ideas about groundwater in terms of its characteristics as a hyperobject. Key hydrogeology concepts and the conflicts and dilemmas in uses and abuses of groundwater in Australia underpin a search for the metaphorical potency of groundwater. Literature uncovers how allegorical tones of groundwater may be expressed.
{"title":"Groundwater as Hyperobject","authors":"D. Wardle","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The essay explores ideas about groundwater in terms of its characteristics as a hyperobject. Key hydrogeology concepts and the conflicts and dilemmas in uses and abuses of groundwater in Australia underpin a search for the metaphorical potency of groundwater. Literature uncovers how allegorical tones of groundwater may be expressed.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"84 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89679597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay will discuss the role of social anxiety in the work of Margaret Cavendish, with a particular emphasis on blushing, speechlessness, and what we would now call introversion. The bashfulness that she presents in her work as a "crimeless defect," I will argue, is both a form of transgressive modesty and a reaction against environmental sensitivity. In plays such as Lady Contemplation, The Presence, and Love's Adventures, Cavendish is interested in staging various failures of communication.
{"title":"\"No Crime to Be Bashful\": Social Anxiety in the Drama of Margaret Cavendish","authors":"J. Battis","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay will discuss the role of social anxiety in the work of Margaret Cavendish, with a particular emphasis on blushing, speechlessness, and what we would now call introversion. The bashfulness that she presents in her work as a \"crimeless defect,\" I will argue, is both a form of transgressive modesty and a reaction against environmental sensitivity. In plays such as Lady Contemplation, The Presence, and Love's Adventures, Cavendish is interested in staging various failures of communication.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"167 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76771375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay argues that characters in Linda Hogan's novel Solar Storms resist the erasure of Indigenous culture through stories they tell about human relationships with water. These stories emphasize water's transcendence of settler frameworks for explanation and control, foregrounding its role in re-shaping Indigenous resistance to continually expanding colonial development.
{"title":"Living, Land-Broken Waters: Epistemological Resistance in Solar Storms","authors":"Ned Schaumberg","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that characters in Linda Hogan's novel Solar Storms resist the erasure of Indigenous culture through stories they tell about human relationships with water. These stories emphasize water's transcendence of settler frameworks for explanation and control, foregrounding its role in re-shaping Indigenous resistance to continually expanding colonial development.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"17 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85576179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In Wuthering Heights, both Catherine's and Heathcliff's deaths contradict their strong character; these deaths are best explicable in relation to the early intertwining of identification and desire, as expounded by Lacan and Kristeva. Furthermore, the story of the second generation—which disappoints most readers—is shown actually to continue the first.
{"title":"Desire, Identification, and Two Peculiar Deaths: The Long Story of Wuthering Heights","authors":"Lorraine Markotić","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Wuthering Heights, both Catherine's and Heathcliff's deaths contradict their strong character; these deaths are best explicable in relation to the early intertwining of identification and desire, as expounded by Lacan and Kristeva. Furthermore, the story of the second generation—which disappoints most readers—is shown actually to continue the first.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"58 6 1","pages":"75 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79831812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:While many critics have read J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace as a redemptive narrative in which the protagonist undergoes an ethical Bildung through his contact with animals, this essay examines ways in which any possible moral development is dependent on narrative and embodied violence toward human and nonhuman others.
{"title":"Violence and Ventriloquism in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace","authors":"S. Li","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While many critics have read J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace as a redemptive narrative in which the protagonist undergoes an ethical Bildung through his contact with animals, this essay examines ways in which any possible moral development is dependent on narrative and embodied violence toward human and nonhuman others.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"102 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86957615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay argues that in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, a collectivist-oriented society is created through deindividuation, obedience, compliance, and conformity to group norms. A malevolent leader clouds Stepford men's thinking and cultivates the perception that women are less than human, making them appear as an enemy deserving of annihilation.
{"title":"Group Psychology and Crowd Behaviour in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives","authors":"A. Alshiban","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, a collectivist-oriented society is created through deindividuation, obedience, compliance, and conformity to group norms. A malevolent leader clouds Stepford men's thinking and cultivates the perception that women are less than human, making them appear as an enemy deserving of annihilation.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"2 2 1","pages":"33 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78490403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Using care ethics and narrative ethics, we analyze Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Seo Hajin's "Though Time Goes By" with a focus on struggles to conceive of care as a moral value and to develop relational autonomy. These stories suggest that rewriting identity in the face of repressive narratives requires narrative communities.
{"title":"Care and Autonomy in The Awakening and Seo's \"Though Time Goes By\"","authors":"Amy C. Smith, Julie Wilhelm","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Using care ethics and narrative ethics, we analyze Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Seo Hajin's \"Though Time Goes By\" with a focus on struggles to conceive of care as a moral value and to develop relational autonomy. These stories suggest that rewriting identity in the face of repressive narratives requires narrative communities.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"59 1","pages":"103 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79328225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Focusing on Giorgio Agamben's reflections on language and potentiality, this essay examines how a different kind of happiness can enable ethics to venture above the figure of the law, that is, to become an ethics for which living itself is at stake.
{"title":"Agamben's Happy Life: Toward an Ethics of Impotence and Mere Communicability","authors":"Simon Marijsse","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Focusing on Giorgio Agamben's reflections on language and potentiality, this essay examines how a different kind of happiness can enable ethics to venture above the figure of the law, that is, to become an ethics for which living itself is at stake.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"51 1","pages":"139 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83176253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines how philosopher Catherine Malabou's concept of destructive plasticity impacts the situation of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. My argument is that Malabou envisions the life in death of psychoanalysis in its relation to neuroscience, where psychoanalysis's new beginnings are won at the price of its near total doctrinal destruction.
{"title":"The Life in Death of Psychoanalysis","authors":"S. Dougherty","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines how philosopher Catherine Malabou's concept of destructive plasticity impacts the situation of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. My argument is that Malabou envisions the life in death of psychoanalysis in its relation to neuroscience, where psychoanalysis's new beginnings are won at the price of its near total doctrinal destruction.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"69 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89125335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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