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Monthly Archives: October 2012
In Tents # 22 Jesus and Pilate Part 8 The Midrash
As stated in part 7, while I was preparing my original AML paper I came across Robert Rees’s “The Midrashic Imagination in the Book of Mormon” (Dialogue 44:3, Fall 2011). Rees describes Midrash as imaginative engagement with scripture, and after … Continue reading
This Week in Mormon Literature, Oct. 27, 2012
The “Four Centuries of Mormon Stories” are now up and ready for your comments and votes. Also lots of new Christmas fiction, and a new collection of Lovecraftian novellas and novelettes. Please send any additions or corrections to mormonlit AT … Continue reading
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in verse # 22 : back to blank verse
It is one of the guiding principles of in verse that verse should always be read aloud. This includes Shakespeare and Isaiah, Dante and Jeremiah, Milton and John of Patmos. It includes Pope and Chaucer, Beowulf and Homer, Dryden and … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Highwayman", "The mirror for magistrates", "Tragedy of Gorboduc", Alfred Noyes, Bessie Soderborg Clark, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Marden J Clark, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville (Earl of Dorset), William Shakespeare
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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
Interview with bestselling author Becca Fitzpatrick
Back before I’d sold any of my stories, I was in an online writing class and then an in-person writing group with a young woman who was writing a sort-of LDS teen romance novel. She had a great “voice” for … Continue reading
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Zion Theatre Company: The Agony, the Ecstasy and the Spirituality in Trying to Push Forward a Religious Theatre Company
A little less than two years ago I created Zion Theatre Company. The venture was born out of necessity, as the theatre group I was collaborating with previous to that suddenly dropped a re-mount of my play Farewell to Eden, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Roof Overhead, C. S. Lewis, Farewell to Eden, Immortal Hearts and Other Short Plays, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jinn and Other Myths, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Melissa Leilani Larson, Persuasion, Producing, Rings of the Tree, Swallow the Sun, The Death of Eurydice, The Hobbit, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Opposing Wheel, Theatre, Zion Theatre Company
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Windmill Variations: In Defense of Message-Driven Fiction
I suspect inopportune literalism is the primary limiting factor in my confusion as to why good fiction must not, dare not, shall not contain a message. I read the books that others tell me are “good” and I see messages aplenty, and more often than not I see aggressive arguments for particular viewpoints. Scout may pretend to be unformed and open-minded, but “To Kill A Mockingbird” leaves no doubts about what the author believes are better (and lesser) moral conclusions through her voice. Continue reading
