The Last 20 Years in Mormon Lit: Major Developments
What are some of the major developments in Mormon literature over the past 20 years? Being under the painfully pleasant necessity of writing a short article (500-1000 words) during the next week on...
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Right now, Chris Bigelow and I are collaborating on a volume tentatively titled “The Latter-Day Saint Family Encyclopdia,” which will be published this fall by Thunder Bay Press and sold fairly widely....
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Choice of Books — Junius F. Wells
Junius F. Wells, c. 1905 While we’ve read other commentaries on what books we should choose to read (for example, George Reynolds on “outside literature”), Wells has some interesting insights into the...
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Resources for the Study of the History of Mormon Literature
The Church History Library (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I’ve tried to study the history of Mormon literature, I’ve realized that we are currently are in a oddly mixed situation. By and large what...
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The First Course in Mormon Literature?
As I understand it, university-level Mormon literature courses have been taught since the late 1970s, mainly at BYU thanks to the efforts of Eugene England. In recent years the number of courses have...
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