Item Detail
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28839
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8
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English
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Historical Narrative, Literary Narrative-Expelling Poetics from the Republic of History
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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1996
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5
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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50-102
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"Positivist historiography has always maintained an impermeable boundary between history and literature. But positivism is itself a historical sediment whose time is now in the past. Recent literary theory and historiography emphasize the continuities between history and literature. Under the domination of historiography by a positivist epistemology (from about 1880 to 1960), history attempted to free itself from its literary heritage. More recently theorists from a number of disciplines have recognized that history, both ancient and modern, has been informed by literary motifs, themes, and strategies. The repetition of the exodus literary pattern, for example, through the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and Christian history does nothing to bring into question the historical status of the events. The exodus pattern evident in Mosiah do not force the Book of Mormon to surrender historical claims just because they also happen to be literary." [abstract provided]
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A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features
Defending Ourselves, Offending Ourselves: Context and Commentary on the 1990s Theory Debates between the Historical and the Literary
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
FARMS and Its Contributions to the Study of the Book of Mormon: 1979–2011
The Inevitability of Epistemology in Historiography : Theory, History, and Zombie Mormon History
“This Son Shall Comfort Us”: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
Women in the Book of Mormon : Inclusion, Exclusion, and Interpretation -
Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity
Brother Brigham
Literature of Belief : Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The Story of the Latter-day Saints