| Description |
xix, 346 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Sons and brothers: characterization -- Prophets of old: scriptural interpretation -- Mormon's dilemma: competing agendas -- Other voices: embedded documents -- Providential recurrence: parallel narratives -- The day of the Lord's coming: prophecy and fulfilment -- Weakness in writing: a sense of audience -- Strategies of conclusion: allusion. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Book of Mormon -- Criticism, Narrative.
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Book of Mormon. |
| ISBN |
9780199731701 hardback alkaline paper |
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0199731705 |
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