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 MOSAIC.
MOSAIC
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Spring 1991

A
A Journal
Journal forfor
thethe
Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Study ofStudy
Literature
of Literature

The
TheTempest
Tempestinvited
invited
the audience
the audience
to formulate
to formulate
a critique of
a critique of
political
politicalobedience
obedience
which
which
demurred
demurred
at the "obvious"
at the "obvious"
next step of
next step of
repudiation. —paul yachnin
My concern in this essay is to provide a point of depar
study ofmusico-poetic relationships in the English
—DANIEL T. FISCHLIN

I wish
wish to
to demonstrate
demonstrate that
that Wordsworth's
Wordsworth'sacceptance
acceptanceofofthe
the
marginal...
marginal... is
is problematic,
problematic, ambiguous
ambiguousand
andunstable.
unstable.
—ANNE McWHIR

The Goncourts interest in Japanese art was initially predicated

on... the West's exoticist fascination with things Chinese.
—DEBORAH JOHNSON

The cultural parallel between Art Nouveau and the story of Lily
Bart highlights... the decorative roles of women in art and society
versus a woman's true identity. —Reginald abbott
Extremely individualistic texts like Schreber's and De Quincey's
lay bare the extent to which language does determine one's being.
—MARTIN WALLEN

By focusing on the Dostoevsky-Nietzsche configuration, Bely and

Mann have broadened the Foucauldian emphasis on Marx and
Freud as key initiators of modern discursive practices.
—JOHN BURT FOSTER, Jr.

Narrators in family album novels... usually end by questioning

both the photographic image and the family itself as instruments
of coherence. —brent MacLAiNE

University of Manitoba

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 MOSAIC

A Journal for the

INTERDISCIPLINARY
Study of Literature

Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 1991

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Manitoba Foundation, and the Faculty of Arts for additional financial assistance.

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udM*

Mosaic
A JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY
OF LITERATURE

24/2 SPRING 1991

EDITOR: Evelyn J. Hinz (Past President,(CELj))

EDITORIAL BOARD
Chairman: Lawrence Ritchey (Music)
Louis Allaire (Anthropology) Larry W. Hurtado (Religion)
Trevor Anderson {Law) Audrey M. Kerr {Medicine)
J. E. Clark {French & Spanish) Klaus K. Klostermaier {Religion)
Gaby Divay {Library Science) Robert Kroetsch {English)
Rory Fonseca {Architecture) Jasper McKee {Physics)
A. L. Gordon {French & Spanish) John J. Teunissen {English)
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Linda Wilson {Psychology)

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 Congratulations
to

KIM IAN MICHASIW

"The Social Other: Don Juan and the Genesis of the Self.'

MOSAIC 22/2 (Spring 1989): 29-48

Winner of the 1990 Keats-Shelley Association Award

for

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Contents

Shakespeare and the Idea of Obedience:

Gonzalo in The Tempest 1 Paul Yachnin

Music and Metrics: Idiom and

the English Air 19 Daniel T. Fischlin

Purity and Disgust: The Limits

of Wordsworth's Primitivism 43 Anne McWhir

Reconsidering Japonisme:
The Goncourts'Contribution 59 Deborah Johnson

"A Moment's Ornament":

Wharton's Lily Bart and Art Nouveau 73 Reginald Abbott

Body Linguistics in Schreber's Memoirs

and De Quincey's Confessions 93 Martin Wallen

Dostoevsky Versus Nietzsche in the

Work of Andrey Bely and Thomas Mann 109 John Burt Fo

Photofiction as Family Album: David Galloway,

Paul Theroux and Anita Brookner 131 Brent MacLaine

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 151

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