Vardis Fisher: A Mormon Novelist (Introductions to Mormon Thought)

Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history. Engrossing and enlightening, Vardis Fisher illuminates the acclaimed author's impact on Mormon culture, American letters, and the literary tradition of the American West.

Biographies & Memoirs

Austin, Michael

Arts & Literature

University of Illinois Press

The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The great experiment: A study of Soviet society

English Universities Press

The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.With 80 readings by some of the world’s greatest thinkers―from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldúa to Toni Morrison―Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.

Reading the World, Third Edition and The Little Seagull Handbook, Second Edition

Literature & Fiction

Bullock, Richard

Brody, Michal

Weinberg,Francine

Essays & Correspondence

W.W.Norton&Company

The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.
With 80 readings by some of the world’s greatest thinkers―from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldúa to Toni Morrison―Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.
The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.

Reading the World, Third Edition and The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises, Second Edition

The only global great ideas reader, with new chapters on Ethics &amp; Empathy and Visual Arguments
With 77 readings by some of the world’s great thinkers, Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective, allowing students to explore the development of ideas across cultures, an increasingly important approach in our diverse society. Selections strike a balance between Western and non-Western, classic and contemporary, verbal and visual, and longer and shorter. The new edition features a new chapter on Ethics &amp; Empathy, a new casebook on Visual Arguments, 36 new readings in total, and new guidance on identifying and avoiding bias.

Reading the World

THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE. 
The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. With 80 readings by some of the world’s greatest thinkers―from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldúa to Toni Morrison―Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.

Reading the World: Ideas That Matter, with 2016 MLA Update

A wide selection of classic Western and non-Western texts allows students to explore the development of ideas at different times and in different cultures. From Lao Tzu to Aristotle, Charles Darwin to Jomo Kenyatta, Reading the World is a collection of 79 texts by some of the world's great thinkers. And because ideas have long been expressed visually as well as verbally, the collection includes 15 drawings, paintings, photographs, and other visual works. Organized around universal themes, and featuring a wide selection of both Western and non-Western texts, Reading the World presents a diversity of views on ideas that matter.

Reading the World: Ideas That Matter

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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