Robert Weatherford. Broadly, an evaluation or interpretation of a text Not a pejorative term After the rise of theory, criticism branched into a multitude.

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Robert Weatherford

Broadly, an evaluation or interpretation of a text Not a pejorative term After the rise of theory, criticism branched into a multitude of approaches Psychoanalytic criticism Marxist criticism Feminist criticism And many others

Literary Work Itself Author’s Life Author’s World Other Works Audience Real World Beyond Real World Reader Response Biographical New Historical, Cultural Material Intertextual Symbolic, Archetypal Marxist, Feminist, Queer Formalist, Poststructuralist

A religious text first published in 1830 Purportedly a translation of ancient records documenting the history of a group of fugitive Israelites

Previous studies My study Formalist approach—begins with the text Higher criticism of the Bible as model Literary criticism ≠ critique of religion

King James Version of the Bible (1611) Book of Mormon (1830)

Book of Mormon Many well-constructed verbal tenses and grammatical phrases Occasional errors -(e)th Thou/ye KJV Bible Perfect execution

Book of Mormon Loss of first-person identity Inexplicable past tenses KJV Bible Superscriptions Complicated verbal tenses and narrators

Book of Mormon Lists containing English and non-English objects KJV Bible Exotic sounding names of spices and other objects Book of Mormon AnimalApologist “Candidate” Animal HorseTapir ElephantBison CurelomMastodon/something extinct CumomMastodon/something extinct

The Book of Mormon replicates the language and style of the KJV Bible Further research Continued academic discussion of the textual phenomenon