Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 1994. Published in two parts.
Papers given at the AML annual meetings and Rocky Mountain MLA conferences from 1988 to 1992. This was the first annual edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson. There had not been an AML annual/proceedings published since 1987, so there was a lot of backlog to cover. Full texts in the links below.
1994, Volume I
Of Hymns, Herbert, and the Aesthetics of Faith
John S. Tanner 1
The Power of the Word
William A. Wilson 8
AML: Unlikely Skirmisher in the Battle of the Books
Levi S. Peterson 15
To Tell and Hear Stories: Let the Stranger Say
Bruce W. Jorgensen 19
Attuning the Authentic Mormon Voice: Stemming the Sophic Tide in LDS Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 34
Virginia Sorensen as the Founding Foremother of the Mormon Personal Essay
Eugene England 44
The Strength and Weaknesses of Virginia Sorensen’s On This Star
Linda Berlin 51
Joseph and His Brothers: Rivalry in Virginia Sorensen’s On This Star
Edward A. Geary 57
Mercy, Zina, and Kate: Virginia Sorensen’s Strong Women in a Man’s Society
LuDene Dallimore 63
Women Together: Kate Alexander’s Search for Self in The Evening and the Morning
Grant T. Smith 68
Sacrifice to the Proper Gods
Jacqueline C. Barnes 78
In Search of Women’s Language and Feminist Expression Among Nauvoo Wives in A Little Lower Than the Angels
Helynne H. Hansen 84
“Little Books” from a Large Soul: The Private Poetry of Virginia Sorensen
Susan Elizabeth Howe 91
Virginia Sorensen: Literary Recollections from a Thirty-five Year Friendship
Mary Lythgoe Bradford 97
Overworked Stereotypes or Accurate History? Images of Polygamy in The Giant Joshua
Jesse L. Embry 105
Whatever Happened to Maurine Whipple?
Katherine Ashton 114
The Promise Is Fulfilled: Literary Aspects of John D. Fitzgerald’s Novels
Audrey M. Godfrey 120
Realizing “A Personal and Possessed Past”: Mormon Community and Values in Wallace Stegner’s Recapitulation
Richard H. Cracroft 124
Clarice Short: Earthly Academic
Emma Lou Thayne 132
Madwomen in the Mormon Attic: A Feminist Reading of Saturday’s Warrior and Reunion
Nola D. Smith 139
“A Usually Dazzling World”: The Poetic Mormon Humanism of Emma Lou Thayne
Richard H. Cracroft 145
1994, Volume II
Levels of Perception in Michael Fillerup’s Visions and Other Stories
Robert M. Hogge 154
Embracing the Other: The Beloved Alien and Other Ethical Fictions of Orson Scott Card
Mick McAllister 158
A Look at Contemporary Mormon Poetry: One Harvester’s Opinion
MaryJan Gay Munger 166
Franklin Fisher’s Bones: The Effaced Identity of the Mormon Missionary
Joe Peterson 171
Letters from Exile: Plural Marriage from the Perspective of Manha Hughes Cannon
John Sillito and Constance L. Lieber 177
Feminine Voices in the Works of Juanita Brooks
Karin Anderson England 183
In Rims of Praise: The Songs of Zion
Jean Anne Waterstradt 190
“And There Was … a New Writing”: The Book of Mormon as a Never-Ending Text
Neal E. Lambert 196
“After Ye Have Received So Many Witnesses”: Symbolic Action in Alma 32-34
Keith H. Lane 201
Liminality in the Book of Mormon
Richard Dilworth Rust 207
Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as Historian
Steven L. Olsen 212
Telling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature
William Mulder 216
Towards a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask “Is This Mormon Literature?”
Gideon O. Burton 227
“Though Like the Wanderer”: Outside the Group in Mormon Short Fiction
Derk Michael Koldewyn 234
Reading Mormon Stories: An Ethical Dilemma?
Neal W. Kramer 239
Toward a Theory of Literary Value: The Necessity of Bearing Personal Testimony
Harlow Soderborg Clark 246
In the Territory of Irony
Harlow Soderborg Clark 256
Doubt and the Desert
John Bennion 263
Risk and Terror
John S. Harris 270
Drinking, and Flirting with the Mormon Church
Marian Nelson 275
Men and Women and Love
Robert A. Rees 282
Domesticity and the Call to Art: A Panel
Julie J. Nichols, Gail Newbold, Lisa Ortne Bickmore, Margaret Blair Young, Bruce W. Jorgensen 284
Confronting the Personal Voice: Ethics and the Personal Essay in Technical Writing
Karin Anderson England 297