Part One may be found here.
Writer-focused audience theories position the writer center stage in both the writer-audience relationship and in the creative process.  Indeed, it is to the writer’s shapely role that most literary critics’ eyes inevitably rove.

In the most recent General Conference of the LDS Church Elder Jeffrey R. Holland stated the following:
“Not often but over the years some sources have suggested that the Brethren are out of touch in their declarations, that they don’t know the issues, that some of their policies and practices are out-of-date, not relevant to our [...]

The Association for Mormon Letters has begun posting information, including a preliminary program and list of speakers, for its annual Writers’ Conference to be held Saturday, November 4, 2006, at Utah Valley State College in Orem. Pre-registration for the event must be completed October 27th (see registration form), but those deciding to attend at [...]

Theories about the audience’s role in the writer-audience relationship show up as pale shadows tacked on the heels of inquiries into the writer’s purpose and product.  I can’t help but wonder what that means. Is the audience’s role really fully subordinate to the role of the creative writer, or have we merely overlooked characteristics of audience that point us toward livelier models of the writer/audience relationship?  Is the Internet [...]

My wife and I just got our copy of States of Grace and the God’s Army Special Edition 2 Disc DVD in the mail this evening and almost immediately watched States of Grace and the special features of God’s Army. Thus my mind has been full Dutcherized and for the evening, I wanted to throw [...]

The Association for Mormon Letters recently sent out the following news about Irreantum:
“The AML board is pleased to announce the appointment of Valerie Holladay and Scott Hatch as the new co-editors of Irreantum, the journal of the Association for Mormon Letters.

The Deseret Book Conference Sale circular arrived earlier this week. I was intrigued by the description of a book by Elder Neal A. Maxwell. It’s called The Enoch Letters. It turns out that it is a reprint — the original work was published in 1975 and republished in 1981 as Of One Heart: The [...]