Robert Bird

ROBERT BIRD, who has a doctorate degree from Idaho State University, teaches English at Ricks College. He lives in Rexburg, Idaho, with his wife, Rebecca, and three children—Jacqueline, Gregory, and Corinne. This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Mormon letters, January 14,1995, Westminster College, Salt Lake City.

Modern Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boy

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 3

Joseph Smith’s revision of the Pauline closing, “world without end” (Eph. 3:21) to become “worlds without end” (D&C 76:112), is a significant ontological move. Specifically, Smith’s closing provides an opening for contemporary Mormon literature to…