Papers given at the AML annual meetings, and AML sessions at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference and Sunstone Symposium from 1994 to 1995. Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson. Full text in the link below
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
The Moral Imagination
Susan Elizabeth Howe 1
1995 VISITING WRITER
Citation Honoring Wayne C Booth 7
Why Do Mormon Writers Find It So Hard to Climb Parnassus?
Wayne C Booth 8
WAYNE BOOTH’S CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
The Vocation of a Mormon Teacher
Neal W. Kramer 20
Keeping Company with Wayne Booth: Ethical Responsibility and the Conduct of Mormon Criticism
Gideon Burton 27
“Easy to Be Entreated”: Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication
Grant Boswell 36
INTERSECTIONS WITH FAITH
Mormon Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boys
Robert Bird 41
Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge: Sentimentality and Separation
Laura L. Bush 46
Creating Zion: Why Write in the Household of Faith
MaryJan Gay Munger 55
Consistency Through Inconsistency: The Literature of Mormon Polygamy
Cheri Pray Earl 60
The Emergence of Mormon Religious Studies and Mormon Regional Studies: Their Significance for Mormon Letters
Eric Alden Eliason 66
The Boon: A Temporary Summing Up
Marden J Clark 74
HISTORIC FIGURES
Ramona Wilcox Cannon as Woman and Writer
Ariel Clark Silver 82
From Grear Britain to the Great Salt Lake: The Poetry of Edward Lennox Sloan
David E. Sloan 89
ADJUNCT SESSIONS
Eros in LDS Life and Literature: A Panel with B. W. Jorgensen, Karin Anderson England, and Margaret Blair Young 96
The Song of Songs and the Mormon Blues
B. W. Jorgensen 96
Narrative, Community, and Intimacy
Karin Anderson England 103
Monks, Missionaries, and Eros
Margaret Blair Young 106
When Mormon Literature Becomes “Mormon”: A Panel 111
Genteel Mutterings
Marni Asplund-Campbell 111
The Provo Window: Late Night Thoughts on the Purposes of Art and the Decline of a University
Scott Abbott 112
Violence and Aesthetics
Susan Elizabeth Howe 116
Losing My Life in the Story
B. W. Jorgensen 118
Moral to Read, Moral to Write
Brian Evenson 121
Panel Discussion 123
The Struggle for Mormon Literature
Brian Evenson 127
“Killing Cats” 132
“Blessing the Dog” 134
“I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly”: Mormon Aspects of May Swenson’s Poetry
Susan Elizabeth Howe 138
Knowing the Poetry First: A Response
Paul Swenson 146