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What's New In Technical Processing, Philip A. Melzer

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Peter Bartley, Mormonism: The Prophet, The Book And The Cult, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Mormonism: The Prophet, The Book and the Cult (1989), by Peter Bartley. Bartley attacks Mormonism and its sacred book, the Book of Mormon, which is not surprising when one notes the anti-Mormon sources he cosulted. Rigorous and well-grounded arguments are lacking, and sweepingly dogmatic assertions dominate. He faults the Book of Mormon on various claims as well as on stylistic grounds--he asserts that it appears to be written entirely by one person. This publication represents just one more anti-Mormon book.

Hugh Nibley, Lehi In The Desert, The World Of The Jaredites, There Were Jaredites, Stephen D. Ricks

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Lehi in the Desert, The World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites (1988), by Hugh Nibley.

Ecological Nomadism Versus Epic Heroism In Ether: Nibley's Works On The Jaredites, David B. Honey

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Lehi in the Desert, The World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites (1988), by Hugh Nibley.

A Sure Foundation: Answers To Difficult Gospel Questions, Gary P. Gillum

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of A Sure Foundation: Answers to Difficult Gospel Questions.

Delbert W. Curtis, The Land Of The Nephites, David A. Palmer

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Land of the Nephites (1988), by Delbert W. Curtis.

Alan Goff, “A Hermeneutic Of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, And The Bible And The Book Of Mormon”, Daniel B. Mckinlay

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of “A Hemeneutic of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Postitiveism, and the Bible and Book of Mormon” (1989), by Alan Goff.

Time Vindicates Hugh Nibley, William J. Hamblin

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1988), by Hugh Nibley.

David Persuitte, Joseph Smith And The Origins Of The Book Of Mormon, L. Ara Norwood

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon (1985), by David Persuitte.

Dan Vogel, Origins And The Book Of Mormon, Kevin Christensen

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Origins and the Book of Mormon (1986), by Dan Vogel.

Narrative Description In Marco Polo's Travels: A Nonfictional Application Of Bakhtin's Chronotope, Ute Margarete Saine

Quidditas

Throughout the text of Marco Polo's Devisement du monde, the reader is repeatedly enjoined to believe the narration. Such a captatio benevolantiae – the rhetorical convention inviting reader interest – typically takes the form of assertions, such as "I am telling nothing but the truth"; "Everybody ought too believe this"; "This is how it was"; "This is how Marco Polo saw it," and the like. The narrator even proposes to uphold the sophisticated distinction between eyewitness information, gathered firsthand, and accounts obtained from others:

We will set down things seen as seen, things heard as heard, so that our …

Hugh Nibley, Prophetic Book Of Mormon, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of the Prophetic Book of Mormon (1989), by Hugh Nibley.

An Airborne Rescuer From The North In El Paso: "Ruggiero" Or "Perseus"? "Hippogriff" Or "Horse"?, John F. Moffitt

Quidditas

I. A Question of Procedure

By Study And Also By Faith: Essays In Honor Of Hugh W. Nibley, Vol. 2, John M. Lundquist, Stephen D. Ricks

Maxwell Institute Publications

Religious Validity: The Sacrament Covenant in Third Nephi

Richard Lloyd Anderson

I have just nished another reading of the Book of Mormon, and what a wonderful rejuvenation this has been as vistas of doctrine open up. The spirit is a complex thing. It comes as it will, as Jesus said to Nicodemus (John 3:8). Sometimes you feel a burning and a warmth, and sometimes you feel a peace and clarity of thought. The latter is my experience in reading the Book of Mormon this time. In the rst reading I felt the warmth intensely. I can remember my impressions of …

Chaucer's Sense Of An Ending, Colleen Donnelly

Quidditas

The problem of closure plagued Chaucer throughout his career, and critics have continued to point out his 'inability" to end or finish many of his poems. This lack of closure often frustrates the casual reader and perplexes the serious scholar, leaving both to wonder if Chaucer was incapable of bringing his poems to an end or if he simply intended to tease his audience with such inconclusiveness. Neither answer is quite satisfactory. To understand that this inconclusiveness was deliberately created by Chaucer the master poet, and not by Chaucer resignedly handing the pen over to the befuddled persona whoo records …

Exemplarity And The Interpretive Frame In Marguerite De Navarre's Heptaméron, V. Stanley Benfell

Quidditas

Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron is one of the many works that have fallen prey to the contemporary fascination with indeterminacy and the poetics of failure. Increasingly, critics are writing of the "ambiguity" of the novella collection and the lack of narrative resolve that seems to characterize both the novellas and the discussions by the "devisants" that surround the novellas. My purpose in this essay is to contest this view. I intend to show that from a historical perspective, when the Heptaméron is seen in the light of the pervasive rhetorical concerns of late Renaissance writers, the prevailing critical view is …

The Similar Complementarity Of Othello, Maurice Hunt

Quidditas

Certainly the argument that the principle of complementarity illuminates Othello is nothing new in Shakespeare studies. Over twenty years ago, Norman Rabkin, using an analogy from modern physics, described Shakespeare's characters and motifs as composing complementary wholes. The following excerpt accurately represents his reading of Othello's character: "He is what he is by virtue of what he is not. And what he is not, what he excludes from himself, rises quickly to the surface in the person of Iago. Whatever formulations we make about it, each reader senses the intimacy of the relationship between these mighty opposites, the degree to …

Review Essay: David Riggs, Ben Jonson: A Life, W. Scott Blanchard

Quidditas

David Riggs, Ben Johnson: A Life, Harvard University Press, 1989.

Review Essay: Michael Hattaway, Ed., The New Inn: Ben Jonson, Nancy A. Gutierrez

Quidditas

Michael Hattaway, ed., The New Inn: Ben Jonson, Manchester University Press, 1984.

Symbolic Action And Persuasion In The Book Of Mormon, Keith H. Lane

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis contends that the Book of Mormon can be profitably read from a rhetorical perspective. It employs Kenneth Burke's ideas concerning language, texts, and his method of dramatistic analysis, to reveal certain persuasive aspects of the Book of Mormon, and to urge action in response to the persuasion of the Book of Mormon.

Chapter one discusses common ways of reading scripture, and explains some of the inadequacies of these approaches. It gives a rationale of a rhetorical approach that concerns itself with action, and recommends this approach for the Book of Mormon. Chapter two applies a rhetorical reading to …

Towards A Critical Edition Of The Book Of Mormon, Royal Skousen

BYU Studies

Royal Skousen provides a review of the critical edition of the Book of Mormon published by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). Skousen discusses "the need for a critical edition of the Book of Mormon, considers the issue of Joseph Smith's 'bad grammar,' reviews the FARMS Book of Mormon Critical Text, and proposes an alternative critical edition for the Book of Mormon."

In Search Of The Republic Richard Vetterli And Gary Bryner, William B. Allen

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

History And Faith: Reflections Of A Mormon Historian Richard D. Poll, S. George Ellsworth

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Company We Keep: An Ethics Of Fiction Wayne C. Booth, Neal W. Kramer

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Life Before Brent L. Top, Charles R. Harrell

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Geography Of Book Of Mormon Events: A Sourcebook, John L. Sorenson

Maxwell Institute Publications

Introduction

The subject of "Book of Mormon geography" has stimulated three different responses among Latter-day Saints over the years. On the part of Church authorities caution, if not anxiety, has prevailed. For a minority of members the reaction has been persistent curiosity. Meanwhile a large majority have been satisfied to ignore the matter.

Brenton G. Yorgason, Little Known Evidences Of The Book Of Mormon, John A. Tvedtnes

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Little Known Evidences of the Book of Mormon (1989), by Brenton G. Yorgason.

For A More Accurate Reading Of Goethe's "Classiker Und Romantiker In Italien . . ", Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

The second volume of Uber Künst und AltertJmm, published in 1820, contained an article by Goethe, the first part of which he had already written two years earlier, entitled "Classiker und Romantiker in Italien, sich heftig bekämpfend" (classicists and romantics in Italy fighting intensely). This report was meant to be a description of the Italian literary scene.during the second decade of the nineteenth century.

The Burden Of Responsibility In The Libro De Buen Amor, Lynn Williams

Faculty Publications

In three of the early sections of the Libro de buen amor, Juan Ruiz explains to his public how, for various reasons, he is conditioned to love women. In stanzas 71-76 he uses the unimpeachable authority of Aristotle to argue that men and animals are biologically determined to seek 'juntamiento con fenbra plazentera' (st. 71d), and since he is a man like any other, it is natural, perhaps even inevitable, that from time to time he too should feel the attraction of the opposite sex. Paraphrasing St Paul (I Thessalonians 5.21), the Archpriest tells us rather cheekily that one must …

Accounting Tutor Platform, Rayman D. Meservy

Faculty Publications

Many educational researchers consider computers to be the most important technological development for education since the invention of the printing press or writing itself. They believe that computers will one day transform education, leaving their mark on education as writing and books have done. Even though computer aided instruction (CAI} has been used for many years, results at the college level have been mixed, although generally moderately positive, sometimes reducing instructional time while increasing learning effectiveness. [Kulik, 1990]