By Stephen Carter on Apr 3, 2008 in Featured, Literature, movies | 8 Comments
I watched The Merchant of Venice a few weeks ago, the one with Al Pacino (Shylock) and Jeremy Irons (Bassanio). It’s really an outstanding film. I just wish it didn’t have period prostitutes in it so I could show it to my class.
I had forgotten just how tautly Shakespeare draws the tensions in that play. […]
By Jana on Mar 22, 2007 in Literature, Rotation, Spirituality, Sunstone | 9 Comments
In my previous post, I discussed how language limits our ability to describe our spiritual experiences. I appreciated the responses to my initial query. After I posted my thoughts, I had one of those Doh! forehead-hitting moments where I realized that what makes an event spiritual is its ineffability. If it was […]
By Dan on Jan 31, 2007 in Community, Literature, Mormon Studies | 1 Comment
Just a quick note to celebrate a neat development in Mormon studies and to help spread the word for potential job seekers. UVSC is a terrific school that is steadily growing a religious studies program that includes courses on Mormon topics.
By Matt Thurston on Jan 18, 2007 in Arts, Literature, Rotation, Sunstone | 13 Comments
I read Levi Peterson’s two short story collections, The Canyons of Grace (1982) and Night Soil (1990), as well as his two novels, Aspen Marooney (1995) and the incomparable The Backslider (1986) during the summer of 2005. At the time Peterson’s stories provided fuel for my mind and salvation for my soul. Both responses surprised […]
By Scot Denhalter on Sep 11, 2006 in Arts, Community, Literature, Rotation, Sunstone | 8 Comments
In my last article “Bad Stories,” I commented on the relative value of dark as opposed to lighter themes or subjects in Mormon narrative art forms. Reader comments generated a tangential and tantalizingly brief discussion of the problem of didacticism: making a story’s central theme explicit rather than implicit. I’d like to reopen […]
By Jana on May 12, 2006 in Community, Literature | 31 Comments
There are few venues for Mormons to publish their literary efforts–Dialogue and Sunstone only publish a handful of works each year and magazines like Wasatch Review and Irreantum have struggled against hurdles of funding and finding volunteers to staff their publications. Perhaps the Net will provide the space where MoLit will be truly successful. Sites […]
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