AML Conference Program 2008

AML Annual Meeting, March 8, 2008

Brigham Young University, Wilkinson Center

Jonathan Glasgow, “The Rhetorical Nature of Literature as Found in Scripture”

Blair Van Dyke, “Peter Rose Up:  Luke’s Use of Posture as a Literary Clue”

Charles Swift, “Choices:  Crafting Narrative in the Book of Mormon”

William Brugger, “Mormon Maritime Migration in Meter”

Donald W. Parry, “Isaiah’s Use of Double Meanings in the Song of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)”

Neal Kramer, “The Narrative Function of Nehor”

John Hall, “BYU’s New Testament Commentary Project”

Ronald Esplin, Jeffrey O. Johnson, Robin Nensen, David Whittaker, Linda Hunter Adams, “The Joseph Smith Papers Project”

Main Address:  Harold Rawlings, “The History of the Bible”

Kenny Mays, “Parallelisms in the Book fo Mormon”

Scot Bayles, “Intertextuality in Scriture”

Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, “Of M.I.C.E. and Monomyth”

Jim Faulconer, “Zion in the Text”

Travis Anderson, “Eschatology and Textuality in Levinas”

Susan Howe, Bruce Jorgensen, Marilyn Brown, Diane Porter, Panel: “The Contributions of Clinton F. Larson to LDS Literature”

Jeff Swift, “Last Chance: Moroni’s Motivations and Epistle Rhetoric”

Dallin Lewis, “Hearken, all ye people: D&C 1 as an Epic”

Stephanie Johnson, “Book of Mormon as a Complex Literary Work”

Mark Brown, “Are You In or Out: Clubhouses and Belonging in Mormonism and Brigham City

Patricia Karamesines, “Why Joseph Smith Went to the Woods: Rootback for LDS Literary Nature Writers”

Jeremy Bowen, “Interpreting the Relationship Between God and Man:  A Literary Comparison of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Melville’s Moby Dick, and the Book of Mormon”

Cherry Silver, “The Distaff Side of Zion: Latter-day Saint Women’s Writings Defining a Distinctive Period”

Kayela Seegmiller, “Blurring Borders, Forming Boundaries: Muslims, Mormons and Feminists”

John Bennion, “Reading Classic Literature with a Christian Eye”

Dennis Packard, Sterling Van Wagenen, Travis Anderson, Panel:  “Putting Criticism into Practice”

Alan Melby, Dennis Packard, Clear Play: Adam Reader, Phillip Fisher, Panel:  “Customized Video Playback”

David Kearl, “Job and Lehi: Reaching for Strength in Times of Spiritual Darkness When Spiritual Mathemagic Does Not Add Up”

Taylor Rouanzion, “The Eve Paradox”

James Goldberg, “Form and Context: Illiterate Audiences and the Formation fo the World’s Scriptures”

David Hulet, “Creating Mormon Narrative”

Harlow Clark, “Other Atonements”

Alan Mitchell, “This New Song—Literary Qualities of the D&C”

Cynthia L. Hallen, “’Divine Parody’: Sensitive Content and the Three Degrees of Allegory”

Brandon Sanderson, Daniel Wells, “Science Fiction, Fantasy and Mormons”

Student Writing and Publishing

During the presidential address at the mid-day awards luncheon Samuelson spoke on the need to “discuss with precision, kindness and insight . . . what a particular work seems to be trying to achieve and how well it achieves it” and to avoid “excommunicating any genre or approach or style or form.””What we believe in, what we honor, is good writing, literature and the effective criticism of literature.” Samuelsen said. “Because we’re the Association for Mormon Letters, we honor good writing by and about Mormons . . . Mormon literature can be transcendent or transgressive, or both, or neither. We embrace it all.”