CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
The State of Mormon Literature and Criticism Gideon Burton and Neal Kramer

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

Danger on the Right! Danger on the Left! The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction Eugene England

Toward a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask "Is This Mormon Literature"? Gideon Burton

The Mormon Fiction Mission Tessa Meyer Santiago

Modern Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young's Salvador and Card's Lost Boys Robert Bird

"Easy to be Entreated": Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication Grant Boswell

The Lyric Body in Emma Lou Thayne's Things Happen Lisa Orme Bickmore

Wanderings and Wonderings: Contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay Valerie Holladay

Heart, Mind, and Soul: The Ethical Foundation of Mormon Letters Neal W. Kramer

FICTION
There Is Always Someplace Else (from There Is Always Someplace Else) Reed McColm
Elijah's Calling: 1840-41 (from This Could Be the Dawning of That Day) Margaret Young and Darius Gray
Measures of Music Bruce Jorgensen
Brother Melrose Douglas Thayer

POETRY
Naked Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
Fertility Carol Clark Ottesen
Thin Ice Ken Raines
Grandma Comes for Me Ken Raines
Temple Square—Past and Present Delbert W. Ellsworth

REVIEWS
Surviving with Hope: Survival Rates by Mary S. Clyde John Bennion
Anne Perry's Tathea: A Preliminary Consideration Richard Cracroft
Bash: Latter Day Plays by Neil LaBute David G. Pace

ART CREDITS
This issue features the art of Robert Sumner, who currently resides in Virginia Beach, and is studying arts administration at Old Dominion University. His work has most recently appeared at a juried exhibit in New York (with judges from the Guggenheim Museum and New York Museum of Modern Art) and will next be seen in May 2000 at the Lindenberg Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea district.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS