Nicholas Shumway

NICOLAS SHUMWAY teaches Spanish-American literature at Yale University where he is also in charge of the undergraduate program in Latin American Studies. He has published and lectured extensively in his field and has authored a textbook soon to be published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This paper was originally presented at the East Coast Symposium of the Association for Mormon Letters in Boston, Massachusetts, in June 1982. 1

“Rejoice at the Sound of the Organ”

Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 1

Unsettling Organist | James B. Welch, Concert and Recital

Articles/Essays – Volume 13, No. 2

In all of Mormondom, only a handful of organs really deserve the name. The overwhelming and depressing majority of our instruments are electronic imitations (appliances, a friend of mine calls them) or cheap pipe organs…

Ambiguity and the Language of Authority

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 2

In what is clearly the most original and provocative of the essays in the BYU published collection Arts and Inspiration, Karen Lynn argues that two funda mental factors undermine the arts, particularly literature, in Mormondom.…