Title:
Understanding the Book of Mormon : a reader's guide / Grant Hardy.
Author:
Hardy, Grant, 1961-
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Call Number:
BX8627 .H33 2010
Abstract:
In "Understanding the Book of Mormon," Hardy offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work's narrative structure in its 180 year history. He identifies the book's literary techniques, such as characterization, embedded documents, allusions, and parallel narratives, and shows how the narrators--Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni--each has a distinctive voice woven into an integral whole.
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ISBN:
9780199731701
Physical Description:
xix, 346 p. ; 25 cm
Contents:
A brief overview -- Narrator-based reading -- Section I: Nephi -- Sons and brothers -- Characterization -- Prophets of old -- Scriptural interpretation -- Section II: Mormon -- Mormon's dilemma -- Competing agendas -- Other voices -- Embedded documents -- Providential recurrence -- Parallel narratives -- The day of the Lord's coming -- Prophecy and fulfillment -- Section III: Moroni -- Weakness in writing -- A sense of audience -- Strategies of conclusion -- Allusion -- Afterword.
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