[…] I waited nervously, impatiently. Finally I got word that Stanford and Stegner had accepted me in the writing seminar and the M.A. program. The U’s creative writing teacher, Brewster Ghiselin, always skeptical of my […]
[…] vain that his success as a minister might be impaired. Joseph Smith III expressed his concern when writing to Evans’s wife in May 1896, asking her to help R. C. maintain a proper perspective. […]
[…] too many flowers on the marker. Just name, birth and death dates. Nothing ostentatious. As of this writing, I am some distance off from my last breath. Of course everyone on the planet is […]
[…] is made, as if all Indians were Lamanites. Sorenson, “Mesoamerican Record,” 393-94. Smith’s “How Many Nephites?” 261-62. Writing in 1984, George Smith, “Is There Any Way to Escape,” 95, noted that the traditional hemispheric […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):138–177</i><br>In this paper, I argue that this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well-suited […]
[…] we accept that Enos draws on these similarities intentionally, then a fundamental difference between his and Nephi’s writing styles becomes more significant. Nephi avails himself of the hermeneutic code, implicitly posing numerous questions that […]
[…] he learned how “to Read and Write,” Bunyan educated himself by reading and self-improvement, further developing a writing style that reflected his religious environment and his ubiquitous storytelling culture. In all, Bunyan produced at […]
[…] felt this myself when I first discovered Sorensen’s work and was drawn to immerse myself in her writing for my master’s thesis. Carter quotes Linda Sillitoe who mused, “Someone like Virginia arouses hunger . . . to […]
[…] symbol. There are a variety of ways in which the new LDS symbol could be analyzed. This essay seeks to focus narrowly on the new LDS symbol’s cultural interaction with the issue of race, […]
<i>Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 135-166</i><br> When Dialogue asked us to write a personal article about our process of writing A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother (D Street Press, 2020), we were delighted.