What Would Make a Mormon Theory of Literature Different?
I’ve been listening to course lectures from a Theory of Literature course by Paul Fry of Yale University available through Apple’s iTunesU. If nothing else I hope that by carefully working through...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #81: Orson F. Whitney on the Essence of Poetry
To a large extent, theory is definition. A theory of literature is therefore definition of its many elements and how they work together to allow the creation of literature. And as far as I can tell,...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #80: Orson F. Whitney on Poetry and Oratory
When Mormon Literature folk think of Orson F. Whitney, it is usually in regard to his 1886 talk that predicted that Mormonism would yet have “Miltons and Shakespeares of our own.” But in 1926, after...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Truth Speaks for Itself – Orson F. Whitney
The more I read of Elder Orson F. Whitney, the more convinced I am that he was the most literary of our modern Apostles. A literary viewpoint influenced much of what he wrote about the gospel in a...
View ArticleThe warping effect of the resistance to theory
I can’t claim to understand all of what I have read thus far in the Paul de Man essay collection The Resistance to Theory (“Hypogram and Inscription” is particularly obtuse to me). Nor do I have a...
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