Mormon Literature Database

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Description The Mormon Literature Database attempts to include references to any and all reviews of Mormon literature, drama, and film. Also included are reviews of works not by Mormons or having no Mormon subject matter per se, but which are written by Mormon critics. Although a review is certainly a kind of criticism, in the Mormon Literature Database these genres are kept distinct. "Criticism" labels longer, more theoretical works, whereas "Review" names a shorter (often untitled) work of criticism that typically occurs in response to the publication (or performance) of a given work. Certainly some reviews become the pretext for longer, more engaged kinds of criticism, and such works are labeled as "Criticism" in the MLDB. In this resource, all reviews are linked to the records of the work(s) that they review.
Associated Genres Criticism,
Genre History The existence of reviews demonstrates the growth of Mormon literary criticism and of the Mormon literary community. Especially helpful in this regard has been the birth and growth of numerous institutional and non-institutional Mormon periodicals. Of course, many reviews are published outside of Mormon periodicals, but the existence of these magazines and journals has encouraged ongoing critical discussion and development of Mormon arts and letters. Although academic and literary journals publish the bulk of reviews included here, Institutional periodicals have carried reviews from the beginning. Travel books were reviewed in The Times and Seasons during the Nauvoo period, and in the pages of The Improvement Era could be read literary reviews, as well as reviews of films almost from the birth of cinema. Both officially and unofficially Mormons and Mormon culture has been deeply committed to providing reviews of artistic, historical, and other kinds of publications produced both within and outside of the culture.