Papers given at the AML annual meetings, and AML sessions at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference and Sunstone Symposium from 1995 to 1996. Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson. Full text in the link below.
AML Annual 1997
Introduction vi
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Mormon Literature in Cyberspace: The New Frontier
Robert M. Hogge 1
1996 VISITING WRITER, GERALD N. LUND
Honorary Life Membership Presented to Gerald N. Lund 6
The Gospel and the Creative Arts
Gerald N Lund 7
Re-Storying the Restoration: Lund’s The Work and the Glory Saga and the Historical Novel
Richard H Cracroft 18
Response
Gerald N Lund 25
KUSHNER AMONG THE MORMONS
Casserole Myth: Religious Morif and Inclusivity in Angels in America
John-Charles Duffy 27
Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion
Michael S. Austin 34
Sea-Changed Iconography: Tony Kushner’s Use and Abuse of Mormon Images and Traditions in Angels in America
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar 41
Through a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Daniel Stout, Joseph D. Straubhaar, and Gail Andersen Newbold 46
CRITICAL APPROACHES
Renegotiating Scylla and Charybdis: A New Look at Insider and Outsider Stereotypes of Mormonism
John Bennion 59
Undefining “Faithful Fiction” (The Sophic Stranger Rides Again) (With[out] His Evil Twin)
B. W. Jorgensen 67
Utah Women Writers and the Utah Renaissance: The Geography of the Heart Patricia Truxler Coleman 76
Mary Bennion Powell: Polygamy and Silence
John Bennion 81
Toward an LDS Aesthetic of the Novel: A Report from the Front Lines
Benson Y Parkinson 89
CRITICAL EXAMINATIONS
The Ineffable Made Effable: Rendering Joseph Smith’s First Vision as Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 96
Orson F, Whitney and the Consecration of Poetry
Neal W. Kramer 108
The Example of Virginia Sorensen: Honest Ambivalence and the Mormon Experience
Laurie Illions Rodriguez and Joshua P. Rodriguez 118
Imagining Mormon Marriage, Part I: The Mythic, the Novelistic, and Jack Weyland’s Charly
B. W. Jorgensen 128
Singing with Something Less Than One Accord
Levi S Peterson 156
The Rhetorical Self-Definition of Sister Missionaries, 1930-1970: Oral Histories
Jessie L. Embry 147
‘Untrumpeted and Uneven’: An Introduction to Josephine Spencer, Mormon ‘Authoress’
Kylie Nielson Turley 152
Telling it Slant: Literary Silences and Authenticity in Adolescent Literature
Patricia Truxler Coleman 159
The Perry Scheme of Cognitive and Ethical Growth Applied to Levi Peterson’s “Canyons of Grace”
Veda Tebbs Hale 164
Levi Peterson’s “Grace” and Perry’s Scheme with Bell’s Curves
Marilyn Brown 172
READINGS AND CRITICAL COMMENTARY
Organically Grown Humor: Remarks and Readings from The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
Louise Plummer 175
I Have Come to the Whirlwind to Converse with the Father: The Book of Job as a Ceremony of Irony
Harlow Soderborg Clark 18Feeding Stories to the Lion
Harlow Soderborg Clark 188