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American literature -- History and criticism

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text, 1981-2020

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In particular are Skousen's complete collation files on the Book of Mormon text, title page through Moroni 10, in main bulk and original drafts. This includes symbol keys and stemma, progressive editions of each passage's collation, overhead sheets, articles, cue sheets, library research notes, and directory and file printouts. Also includes research, writing, and...
Dates: 1981-2020

Royal Skousen materials for Analysis of textual variants, 2004-2018

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains draft files and other materials related to the publication of Volume 4 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, comprising 6 parts in 2 editions. Includes publication information, changes incorporated into the second edition, printed copies (1st edition) and uncut signatures (2nd edition) of the six parts, etc. Material dated 2004-2018.

Dates: 2004-2018

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : grammatical variation, 1981-2018

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains topical drafts and publication/presentation files for Volume 3/Parts 1-2 of his Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, printed in 2019. This includes drafts and proofs of introduction and background/setup material, article and presentation drafts (his own and those of his collaborator, Stanford Carmack), loose printed signatures (trimmed and untrimmed), PDFs, drafts of the alphabetical topical sections oof the book (specific words and phrases as well as grammatical...
Dates: 1981-2018

Royal Skousen materials for History of the Text of the Book of Mormon: King James quotations in the Book of Mormon, 2005-2019

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains materials related to the publication of Part 5 of Volume 3 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes printed signatures, proofs and corrections, PDFs, introduction material, topical sections, collation and sorting files, etc. Materials dated 2005-2019.

Dates: 2005-2019

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : spelling in the manuscripts and editions, 2006-2020

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains writing and publication materials for Volume 3, Part 6 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, including introductory material, formatting details, chapter and topical section files (graphemes, capitalization, spacing, hypens, punctuation, etc.), background information on Book of Mormon scribes, analysis of misspellings, PDFs, index cards, reviews, final versions, uncut signatures, etc. Materials dated 2006-2020.

Dates: 2006-2020

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : the nature of the original language, 1985-2019

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains materials in preparation for the publication of Parts 3 and 4 of Volume 3 of Royal Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes lectures, index cards, lists of words and phrases, conference and symposium papers (Skousen's as well as his peers'), structure and editing files, corrections, introduction material, alphabetical topical files (grammar, syntax, vocabulary, phonology, etc.), work of/with collaborator Stanford Carmack, background information on Joseph Smith...
Dates: 1985-2019

Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project, 1981-2020

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscript drafts, photocopies of research material, correspondence, articles, reviews, and presentations, publicity, variant searches and hour logs, other authors' books and articles on the Book of Mormon, photographs of the original Book of Mormon manuscript, and publication materials for volumes 3 and 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series. Materials dated 1981-2020.

Dates: 1981-2020

Donald B. Russell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2038
Scope and Contents

Personal and professional correspondence, date books used as diaries, and newspapers and magazines kept by Russell. Also included are book manuscripts to be reviewed and copies of the vital papers of Russell's father, Samuel Russell, including certificates, deeds, and contracts.

Dates: approximately 1930-1980

Royal Skousen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8255
Scope and Contents Consists of linguistic research and career files (most notably on Skousen's theory of analogical modeling, Finnish morphology, English spelling, statistics and probability, quantum computing, and syntax), as well as presentations and articles, student and colleague files, independent consulting work and editorships. Also contains personal and family files, as well as Book of Mormon Critical Text Project files (research and drafts, collations, writing and publication files, Book of...
Dates: 1951-2020