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Tag Archives: Mormon Literature
Mormon Literature and the Anxiety of “Passing”
In literature, a character’s ability to move unnoticed from one social group to another, often more privileged group is called “passing.” In Disney’s Mulan, for example, the title character “passes” for a man so that she can take her aging … Continue reading
The Divine Feminine, Mormon Style: Carol Lynn Pearson’s _Mother Wove the Morning_, Joanna Brooks, and Faithful Mormon Feminism
Feminist. It’s a divisive word among Mormons. When I’ve told people that I consider myself a Mormon feminist it gets a wide range of reactions, from pleasant surprise from my more secular friends and peers who have a firm idea … Continue reading
2012 Literary Contest Winners
The Association for Mormon Letters and Irreantum magazine are pleased to announce the winners of our 2012 literary contests. This year we received 72 fiction entries, 41 personal essay entries, and 46 poetry collection entries. Entries were judged blind, and … Continue reading
in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable
Like many a medieval manuscript, Piers the plowman has no title as such. Walter W. Skeat, who gave it that title, notes, however, that, in the manuscript he used as the basis for his Oxford edition, “we find here [in … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, Mormon LitCrit, The Past through Literature
Tagged a monstrous fable, Albert C. Baugh, allegory, Book of Mormon, fantasy, Herman Melville, Joseph Smith, Joseph's Myth, Kemp Malone, mimesis, mimetic & fantastic, Moby-Dick, Mormon Literature, outsider art, Piers the Plowman, poetry, Scott Hales, the alliterative revival, verse and prose, Walter W. Skeat
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Mormon LitCrit: Do We Need New Mormon Literary Theory?
“There is always a surprise in store for the anatomy or physiology of any criticism that might think it has mastered the game, surveyed all the threads at once, deluding itself, too, in wanting to look at the text without … Continue reading
Posted in Mormon LitCrit
Tagged Literary Criticism, Mormon LitCrit, Mormon Literature, scholarship, Theory
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The Mormon Ibsen: A Tribute to Eric Samuelsen
When I discovered that Eric Samuelsen was retiring from BYU as the playwriting professor, I have to admit a little bit of my heart broke. In many ways it may the best decision. From what I understand, Eric’s battle with … Continue reading
Teaching Mormon Literature to Non-Mormon Students
As I type I am sitting in the Salt Lake Airport waiting for a flight that will take me first to Denver and then to Dayton, where my decade-old Honda is waiting to take me home. It’s Sunday, but there … Continue reading
Posted in Mormon LitCrit, Thoughts on Language
Tagged AML conference, audience response, Mormon Literature, Non-Mormons, teaching
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History as Fiction, Fiction as History
A few weeks ago, A Motley Vision provided a quote from an 1897 publication by Junius Wells in which he discusses the idea of books as ‘companions’ and urges his readers to reconsider the type of company they keep when … Continue reading
Mormon Literature, Flash Fiction, and the iPad Age
When I used to teach nights at a local career college, I would begin my Introduction to Literature class by having students read Ernest Hemingway’s “A Very Short Story.” At 633 words, the story was ideal for giving the students … Continue reading
Bound on Earth and Other Gateway Drugs
Last month I had the opportunity to attend a luncheon that was being held in conjunction with a literary symposium. The luncheon was offered as a chance to get to meet a visiting author, so even though I did not … Continue reading
