Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 1998. Papers from the annual meeting, held February 1, 1997, at Westminster College, Salt Lake City. Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson.
Introduction vi
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Maps and Addresses
MaryJan Gay Munger 1
MORMON HUMOR
Jots and Titters: An Introduction to Mormon Humor
Richard H. Cracraft 7
You Stole My Life and I Hate You
Kathryn H. Kidd 8
Remodeling the Tract Homes of Heaven: Observations of a Second-rate Carpenter
Robert F. Smith 12
Scaring the Hell Out of People
Robert Kirby 15
A Bibliography of Mormon Humor: or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Eternal Life
Richard H. Cracroft 19
THE BOOK OF MORMON AS LITERATURE
The Book of Mormon as Epic
Richard Dilworth Rust 24
The Art of Nephite Narrative
Mark D. Thomas 30
The Book of Mormon and Literature
Karl C. Sandberg 40
LDS SCIENCE FICTION
A New Mormon Battalion: The Rise of Speculative Fiction Among Mormon Writers
Scott Parkin 44
The Individual vs. the Zion Community: An Empirical Look at the Dichotomy in Mormon SF
Lee Allred 47
MORMON FOLKLORE
Mormon Folklore: Grammar for a Discourse Community
William A. (Bert) Wilson 54
Settlement Folk Ideas: Stories of the Mormons’ Move West
Jessie Embry and William A. (Bert) Wilson 58
Practice Makes Perfect: A Twenty-Year Overview of Creative Dates and Invitations
Kristi A. Bell 69
Spirit Possession in Brazil: A Folklore Study
Adam Nebeker 73
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
I Taught People-Or Should Have
Marden J. Clark 84
Opening the Door: A Personal Reflection on Sunstone
John Sillito 88
To a Grandmother
Russell Burrows 92
Ancestral Lives
Craig J. Oberg 97
My Mother, Poet of Experience
Mikel Vause 100
Electric Talk: Twenty Months of AML-List
Benson Parkinson 106