Item Detail
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8946
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15
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15
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English
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The Dawning of a Brighter Day : Mormon Literature after 150 Years
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BYU Studies
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Spring 1982
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22
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131-60
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[1983 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Criticism]
"I ask you to consider the following: Mormonism is a genuine religious movement, with persistent and characteristic religious and cultural experiences growing out of a unique and coherent theology and a true and thus powerful mythic vision, and it has already produced and is producing the kinds and quality of literature that such experiences and vision might be expected to produce; it is, in fact, right now enjoying a kind of bright dawning, if not a flowering then certainly a profuse and lovely budding, in its literary history. Many of us, at least until recently, could be excused for not knowing there is a Mormon literature. A serious anthology of Mormon literature, providing a full view of the quality and variety over our nearly 150-year history, was first published only a few years ago. That was Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert's A Believing People. At about the same time, these two scholars inaugurated, at Brigham Young University, the first course in Mormon literature. The Association for Mormon Letters, the first professional organization intended to study and encourage Mormon literature, is only a few years old. We have as yet no scholarly bibliography of Mormon literature, no full-scale literary history or developed esthetic principles, little practical and less theoretical literary criticism. The most basic scholarly work--the unearthing and editing of texts, development of biographical materials, and serious literary analysis of our acknowledged classics--is still largely undone." [Publisher's abstract]
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'Awaiting Translation' : Timothy Liu, Identity Politics, and the Question of Religious Authenticity
Dialogues With Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience
Joseph Smith--History
"Moonbeams from a Larger Lunacy" : Poetry in the Reorganization
Mormon cinema : Origins to 1956
Mormon Cultural Studies
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Popular and Literary Mormon Novels : Can Weyland and Whipple Dance Together in the House of Fiction?
The 1890s Mormon Culture of Letters and the Post-Manifesto Marriage Crisis : A New Approach to Home Literature
The Brief History and Perpetually Exciting Future of Mormon Literary Studies
The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time
Toward a Mormon Literary Theory
Towards a Mormon Criticism : Should We Ask 'Is This Mormon Literature?'
What We Will Do Now That New Mormon History is Old : A Roundtable
Writing Ourselves : Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism -
A Believing People : Literature of the Latter-day Saints
Brother Brigham
Defender of the Faith : The B. H. Roberts Story
Eliza R. Snow, An Immortal : Selected Writings of Eliza R. Snow
Faithful History
Great Books or True Religion? Defining the Mormon Scholar
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
J. Reuben Clark : The Public Years
Literature in the History of the Church : The Importance of Involvement
Mormondom's Lost Generation : The Novelists of the 1940s
Prospects for the Study of the Book of Mormon as a Work of American Literature
Spencer W. Kimball : Twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Poetics of Provincialism : Mormon Regional Fiction
The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion
Without Purse or Scrip : A Nineteen Year Old Missionary in 1853