Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 1995.
Papers given at the AML conferences in 1993-1994.Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson. The full text is available in the link below.
1995
Presidential Addresses
And Now for a Little Mormon Humor
Ann Edwards Cannon 11
The Power of the Preposition
Linda Brummett 9
1994 Visiting Scholar
Clio Meets Elijah at the Family History Center
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 16
Scriptural Texts as Literature
The Original Language of the Book of Mormon: Upstate New York Dialect, King James English, or Hebrew?
Royal Skousen 24
Taste and Feast: Images of Eating and Drinking in the Book of Mormon
Richard Dilworth Rust 32
The Ineffable Made Effable: Rendering Joseph Smith’s First Vision as Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 38
Mormon Fiction
Ghosts and Outsiders: Mormon Writers Playing in the Dark
Eugene England 58
Maurine Whipple and the Grand Idea
Veda Tebbs Hale 70
Form and Content: Establishing the Printing Text for Maurine Whipple: The Lost Works
Lavina Fielding Anderson 79
Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of Virginia Sorensen Waugh
Shirley Brockbank Paxman 86
Kindly Ironic Vision in Richard Scowcroft’s Novels
Glen J. Wiese 96
The Deseret Book Book: Lindsey Phillip Dew, Jack Weyland, and Carroll Hofeling Morris
Harlow Soderborg Clark 112
Strange Love: The stories of Phyllis Barber
Helen B. Cannon 127
Drama, Poetry, and the Essay
Whither Mormon Drama: Look First to the Theater
Eric Samuelsen 137
Polly and Katy: Mormon Feminists Take the stage
Nola D. Smith 145
Heart of My Father: C. Thomas Asplund, A Retrospective
Marni Asplund-Campbell 152
Life Transitions in the Poetry of Clinton F. Larson
Ellen Bonelli Pace 163
The Lyric Body in Emma Lou Thayne’s Things Happen
Lisa Orme Bickmore 183
When Are We Taking Ourselves Too seriously? Elouise Bell’s Humor
Patricia T. Coleman 192
Autobiography and Biography
Wanderings and Wanderings: contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay
Valerie Holladay 197
S. Dilworth Young: His Life in Words
Benson Y. Parkinson 205
From Walden Pond to the Great Salt Lake: Ecobiography and Engendered Species Acts in Walden and Refuge
Cecilia Konchar Farr and Phillip A. Snyder 214
Refuge as Extinction: The Victory of Fear and Death Over Courage and Faith
Neal W. Kramer 226
Is There Refuge in the Text?: Narrator and Reader in Terry Tempest Williams’s Memoir
Thomas G. Plummer 237
Contemporary critical Explorations
“P.S. The Slimy One on the Right”: Remarks on Bombastic criticism
Harlow Soderborg Clark 247
Criticizing Mormon Culture or Whatever Happened to Good Will?
Neal W. Kramer 257
Faithful and Ambiguous Fiction: Can Weyland and Whipple Dance Together in the House of Fiction?
John Bennion 269
The Mormon Fiction Mission
Tessa Meyer Santiago 283
How to Be a Mormo-American; Or, The Function of Mormon criticism at the Present Time
Michael Austin 293
Personal Essays
Thoughts of a Former Feminist
Sally T. Taylor 309
Pro-Choice? But What Are We Choosing? One Woman’s View
Mae Blanch 322
Descent from Certitude
Doris R. Dant 325