1983
Foreword v
The Assimilation of Mormon History: Modern Mormon Historical Novels
Lavina Fielding Anderson 1
A “Smaller Canvas” of the Mormon Short Story Since 1950
Bruce W. Jorgensen 10
The Ambiguous Myth of the Wilderness: A Comparative Study of Two Published Versions of “Road to Damascus” by Levi Peterson
Gloria Cronin 32
Thayer’s Ode to a Redtail Hawk
Eugene England 42
Mormon Letters–The Other Kind
Irene M. Bates 54
Privileged Criteria in Literary Evaluation
Brien D. Ward 64
Making a Mormon of Milton
John S. Tanner 70
Singing Praise: The LDS and RLDS Hymnals
Karen Lynn 84
Being Happy: An Exercise in Spiritual Autobiography
Lavina Fielding Anderson 89
But My Truth is Truer Than Your Truth: Cognitive Dissonance in Religion and Drama
Chris Conkling 103
Mormon’s Literary Technique
Susan Taber 117
At the Huntington: The Overland Diaries of Eliza R. Snow
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher 126
Are Women More Free Under the Patriarchy? The Evidence of Mormon Literature
Eugene England 131