A Motley Vision

William discusses Michael Austin's attempt to put forth a vision of Mormon literary criticism that is expansive but still uniquely Mormon.

As the previous entry in this series discusses, by dividing approaches to Mormon Literature into the Mantic and the Sophic, Richard Cracroft forecloses a broad swathe of texts and critical approaches from the field. The following year two younger critics from the same department Cracroft and Jorgensen taught in—Gideon Burton (later to also become a … Continue reading "Mormon Literaturstreit: Gideon Burton argues for both rootedness and openness"

Richard Cracroft rejects on binary only to invoke another in order to stem the "Sophic Tide" he sees as damaging Mormon literature.