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Wordsworth's Later Style, Spencer Hall
Wordsworth's Later Style, Spencer Hall
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The three "close readings" described in the March 1978 Editor's Column were introduced with this line from Marianne Moore: "we do not admire what we cannot understand." The proposition is, of course, as patently false to experience as is Keats's at the end of the "Ode on a Grecian Urn." We often admire exceedingly what we do not understand, precisely because we do not understand it. This is as true of literary criticism as of religious revelation (the two activities having become strangely similar these days), and one of the three "close readings" referred to is a significant case in …
The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University
The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University
The Mockingbird
Marlane Agriesti [The Place Between; Flasher; No Revelations; The Executive]; Ted Aguirre [Photograph]; Rebecca Bates [Print]; Annaleah Brown [Metamorphosis; Birthday Ode/Birds in Crystal]; Jon Buchanan [Two Photographs]; Tony Clark [A Family History; An Old Man, At Nightfall; Hate Sonnet, to the Alleged Witch Who Moved from Our Neighborhood When I Was Ten]; Eydie Cloyd [Lines or Maybe Seeing My Soul]; Raymond Goodfellow [Print; Untitled Artwork]; Michael Griffin [Drawing]; Jerry Hagaman [Two Untitled Artworks]; Dennis Hoback [The Torn Veil]; Katherine Honour [Autumn]; Brian Knave [The Many Once, the Many Never]; Cheryl Light [Official Space]; Ted Lindsay III [Print]; Ellen Markland [Mother …
Representative Mormon Short Stories 1890 To 1940: Evolution Of Sentimentalism Toward Realism, Alice Gardner
Representative Mormon Short Stories 1890 To 1940: Evolution Of Sentimentalism Toward Realism, Alice Gardner
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Previously, no one has analyzed the short stories of Mormon periodicals from their inception in the late nineteenth century until 1940. The body of this study attempts to do so and has two main aims.
First, it evaluates the literary development of largely sentimental stories written for Mormon youth. Sentimentality in fiction was an extreme form of romanticism which flourished in America throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. As other forms of realistic writing became more acceptable in the nation, Mormon writers gradually accommodated their literary styles to conform with national trends. They retained a significant amount …