Tag Archives: Scott Hales

Mormon Literature and the Anxiety of “Passing”

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Scott Hales

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 →

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Novelist Nephi; or Why We Still Need the “Author of ‘Added Upon’”

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Scott Hales

In less than a week I will be traveling to Salt Lake City to spend a week in the Church History Library with the Nephi Anderson papers. To prepare, I have been reading Anderson’s novels and short stories and making … Continue reading →

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in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dennis Clark

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 →

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