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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hardy, Grant, 1961-     Subjects     Book of Mormon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hardy, Grant, 1961-       by title:      Understanding the Bo...         MARC Display

Understanding the Book of Mormon : a reader's guide / Grant Hardy. by Hardy, Grant, 1961- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. Subjects Book of Mormon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. ISBN:  9780199731701 (hardback : alk. paper) 0199731705 (hardback : alk. paper) 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 289.332 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 289.332 Hardy Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 289.3 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 289.332 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 289.332 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 289.332 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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