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Farms Review Takes Up Nibley, Dna, Book Of Mormon Origins

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The latest issue of the FARMS Review (vol. 17, no. 1) is now available, offering its usual in-depth, incisive commentary on an array of recent publications and topics of interest to Latter-day Saint readers.

This is the first issue published since Hugh Nibley’s death earlier this year, and Louis Midgley’s tribute to this illustrious Latter-day Saint scholar has already proved to be one of the more popular contributions. The essay is essentially an intellectual autobiography in which Midgley (BYU professor emeritus of political science and associate editor of the Review) tells of his first encounter with Nib-ley, in 1949; his …

Reflections: Cosmic Optimism

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

In a world filled with violence, poverty, suffering, illness, accidental death, disappointment, frustration, and hatred, pessimism is an ever-beckoning possibility. And, for some, pessimism shades eventually into utter despair, hopelessness, and cynicism.

Autobiography Of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, James Goldberg, Veronica J. Anderson

BYU Studies Quarterly

The following transcription of Jane Manning James’s autobiography is provided in light of the essays and reviews found in this issue on the recent film Jane and Emma, so that readers can examine a major primary source on which the filmmakers relied. A transcription of this autobiography was previously published by Qunicy D. Newell. The following transcription and annotation are taken from James Goldberg’s “The Autobiography of Jane Manning James: Seven Decades of Faith and Devotion.” BYU Studies staff verified the transcription, added sections that had been omitted, and modified the annotation to fit our desired format. As in Goldberg’s …

Pansy's History: The Autobiography Of Margaret E. P. Gordon, 1866–1966, Maggie Gallup Kopp, Claudia L. Bushman

BYU Studies Quarterly

Margaret Gordon's memoir, composed over several decades, is notable for the author's clear voice and independent spirit, as well as her detailed accounts of frontier life, financial and family hardships, church service, and transcontinental travel. This book will provide new sources of study for historians of frontier life in northern Utah and Alberta and especially of the experience of Mormon women in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bushman has annotated her grandmother's manuscript and provides family correspondence and excerpts from Gordon's diaries to supplement the main narrative, enriching it as a potential source for scholarly inquiry and expanding a …

Hooligan, A Mormon Boyhood. By Douglas Thayer, Richard H. Cracroft

BYU Studies Quarterly

Douglas Thayer. Hooligan, a Mormon Boyhood. Provo, Utah: Zarahemla Books, 2007.

Out Of The Black Patch: The Autobiography Of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, And Writer Noel A. Carmack And Karen Lynn Davidson, Brian D. Reeves

BYU Studies Quarterly

Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson, eds. Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer. Volume 4 in the Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. xviii; 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.

The History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being The Autobiography Of A Mormon Missionary Widow And Pioneer S. George Ellsworth, Andrew H. Hedges

BYU Studies Quarterly

S. George Ellsworth, ed. The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998. xxviii; 420 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.

A Voice From The Fire: The Authority Of Experience, Colleen C. Bernhard

Theses and Dissertations

Over all, this thesis was written to be a "ramble" of its own around and through three issues that are central to the writing of the personal essay-voice, authority, and experience-and central to the emergence of this author's own sense of "self."
Drawing upon years of voluminous journals, this collection of six personal essays demonstrates what the scholarly introduction proposes: that the personal essay is both a valid genre and a magnificent bridge from informal life-writing to genuine literary accomplishment. Drawing on Phillip Lopate's differentiation of "memoiristic" essays from the more classic autobiographical form, this collection includes three of each …

"Properly Presented": The Autobiography Of Parley P. Pratt, Taunalyn Ford Rutherford

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of the autobiography of Parley P. Pratt in light of current American autobiography research, intended to assert its worthiness for greater consideration by scholars of American culture. The findings suggest that the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt is comparable to other works now included in the canon of American autobiography such as Jonathan Edward's "Personal Narrative," Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Critical theories on the above autobiographies are applied to the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt in order to show its applicability to the current dialogue of American autobiography. Finally, the …

The Autobiography Of B. H. Roberts Gary James Bergera, Ed., Davis Bitton

BYU Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography Annie Clark Tanner, John B. Harris

BYU Studies Quarterly

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