[…] writings of and about Mormons. Voices had long cried out from the pages of regional journals being read by a few of the devoted. In its first issue, Dialogue carried a piece dealing with […]
Among Mormons, autobiography has been for decades one of the most widesp read modes of literary expression and can be related to the larger tradition of the genre in terms of the nineteenth-century origin […]
[…] earlier books, The Origins of Scientific Thought, notes that analogous “rites, tales, and traditions” found around the world point “to a time of great migrations and also to a center of diffusion somewhere in […]
[…] led them from the pole corral. The merest gleam of sun had struck the far western peaks, breaking the blue of dawn into rose on great rocks and cliffs and slopes of brush and […]
[…] to have deleted. However, President McKay felt that it would be well for the statement to be read by President Brown in his Conference address rather than be presented as an official statement of […]
[…] with Freud: “Man is more than his observable behavior or conscious rational faculties.” However, there is a world of difference between the Mormon “eternal” perspective on man and Freud’s “psychological” perspective on man. Clark also […]
[…] before his second sale. I hope these stories are true. It is good to think that I share a long incubation period with Hawthorne and Frost if nothing else. At the end of my […]
[…] suggest, Mormonism’s version of the hero journey, of the historical and psychical or myth-historical view of a world and people ever growing. I would be almost willing to say that this motif is an […]
[…] she met and married Frederick Sorensen, also of Utah-Danish heritage. Sorensen was working toward his Ph.D. in English and philosophy at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She graduated from BYU the same day […]
[…] And they might be right, for there are far too many cultural and historical parallels in Old World writings and the Book of Mormon which hadn’t found the light of day when Joseph Smith […]