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26458
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English
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The Brief History and Perpetually Exciting Future of Mormon Literary Studies
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Mormon Studies Review
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2015
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2
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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49-74
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This article goes through a brief survey of the initial efforts of the first Mormon literary scholars, "and of the scholarship that followed [them], divided into three ongoing critical project: (1) the creation of a canon of Mormon literature, (2) the exploration of the role of Mormons and Mormonism in American literary history, and (3) the application of the tools of literary criticism to the sacred writings of the Latter-day Saints, especially the Book of Mormon."
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A Believing People : Literature of the Latter-day Saints
A Second Witness for the Logos : The Book of Mormon and Contemporary Literary Criticism
"As much as Any Novelist Could Ask": Mormons in American Popular Fiction
Attuning the Authentic Mormon Voice : Stemming the Sophic Tide in LDS Literature
Avenging Angels : The Nephi Archetype and Blood Atonement in Neil LaBute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the Making of the Mormon American Writer
Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Good Land : The Nonfiction Novel in the Southwest
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Center and Periphery : Mormons and American Culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America
Common Nonsense : Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
Community and Isolation : Some Aspects of 'Mormon Westerns'
Digging the Foundation : Making and Reading Mormon Literature
Distinctions without Differences : Zane Grey and the Mormon Question
Distorting Polygamy for Fun and Profit : Artemus Ward and Mark Twain among the Mormons
Faithful Transgressions in the American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts
Fictional Sisters
Folklore in The Giant Joshua
From Walden Pond to the Great Salt Lake : Ecobiography and Engendered Species Acts in Walden and Refuge
'Herself Moving Beside Herself, Out There Alone' : The Shape of Mormon Belief in Virginia Sorensen's The Evening and the Morning
"I Constructed in My Mind a Vast, Panoramic Picture" : The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint and Postmodern, Postdenominational Mormonism
'If You are a Writer, You Write!' An Interview with Virginia Sorenson
In the Image of God : Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Literary Form and Historical Understanding : Joseph Smith's First Vision
Mormondom's Lost Generation : The Novelists of the 1940s
Mormonism and Literature
Mormon Literature : Progress and Prospects
Mormons and Popular Culture : The global influence of an American phenomenon
Mormon Sisters : Women in Early Utah
Overworked Stereotypes or Accurate Historical Images? : The Images of Polygamy in The Giant Joshua
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
Perpetuation of a Myth : Mormon Danites in Five Western Novels, 1840-1890
Prospects for the Study of the Book of Mormon as a Work of American Literature
Refracted Visions and Future Worlds : Mormonism and Science Fiction
Re-reading Job : Understanding the Ancient World's Greatest Poem
Saints, Sinners, and Scribes : A Look at the Mormons in Fiction
Seduced by Twilight : The Allure and Contradictory Messages of the Popular Saga
Swell Suffering : A Biography of Maurine Whipple
'Ten Wives is All You Need' : Artemus, Twain and the Mormons--Again
"The Assault of Laughter" : The Comic Attack On Mormon Polygamy in Popular Literature
The Book of Mormon : A Biography
The Dark Way to the Tree : Typological Unity in the Book of Mormon
The Dawning of a Brighter Day : Mormon Literature after 150 Years
The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time
The Gentle Blasphemer : Mark Twain, Holy Scripture, and the Book of Mormon
The Missouri and Illinois Mormons in Ante-Bellum Fiction
The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher
The Mormon Novel : Virginia Sorensen's The Evening and the Morning
Theology for the Approaching Millennium : Angels in America, Activism and the American Religion
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Those Amazing Mormons' : The Media's Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
To the Glory of God : Mormon Essays on Great Issues
To the Peripheries of Mormondom : The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O. Mckay, 1920-1921
Towards a Mormon Criticism : Should We Ask 'Is This Mormon Literature?'
Troped by the Mormons : The Persistence of 19th-century Mormon Stereotypes in Contemporary Detective Fiction
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
Vardis Fisher's Mormon Scars : Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man
Virginia Sorensen : A Saving Remnant
Women Regionalists of Mormon Country