Parting the Mormon Veil

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Ángel Chaparro Sanz. Parting the Mormon Veil

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PARTING THE MORMON VEIL

PHYLLIS BARBER’S WRITING

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Lastly, in this section I also approach Barber’s work from a technical point of view. Specifically, I study the technical derivations of the influential attraction to music in her narrative, and I scrutinize her approximation of the genre of autobiography. To that end, I rely not only on the works of classic scholars such as Georges Gusdorf and James Olney, but also on modern approaches to this genre, some of them from the specific point of view of the Mormon domain.

Even though each of these four sections could be seen as independent parts of a whole, I consider them to be most useful as an exercise in networking. When connected, they become a means by which to approach the complexity of a body of work that intertwines within the four topics presented here. Four different approaches in a single analysis might appear, at first glance, to be confusing, or even incoherent. Nevertheless, I am convinced that this combination deploys a solid and exhaustive study of a literary corpus that is authentically heterogeneous and sophisticated in point of view, content and style. Indeed, my methodological approach aims at emulating the very nature of the object of analysis.

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