Mormon Literature Database - Burton, Gideon O.

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	Gideon O. Burton Gideon Burton is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches Renaissance literature, literature of the Latter-Day Saints, and rhetoric. He maintains the Mormon Literature Website, part of which has now become the Mormon Literature Database. He has published sonnets with LDS themes in BYU Studies, Literature and Belief, and Irreantum. He currently edits Mormon Literary Library, a reprint series published by Tabernacle Books. He and his wife, Karen, live in Springville, Utah with their four sons. View Works by this Person
Web Site	Faculty website at Brigham Young University http://english.byu.edu/asp/webpages/mainpage.asp?netid=gob2
Web Site	Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric Burton maintains this online primer and reference to rhetoric. http://rhetoric.byu.edu
Web Site	The Mormon Literature Website Burton maintains this site dedicated to Mormon literature. http://mldb.byu.edu/mlithome.htm
Also Known As	Gideon Burton
Religion	LDS
Birth Date	October 7, 1964
Birth Place	Murray, Utah
LDS Missions	Canada Montreal 1983-85
Parents	Rulon T. Burton and Josephine Omer
Spouse	Karen Mello
Children	Perry, Adam, Lear, Gray
Education	B.A., English Brigham Young University, 1989 M.A., English, University of Southern California, 1992 M.P.W. (Master of Professional Writing), University of Southern California, 1995 Ph.D., Rhetoric, Linguistics, & Literature, University of Southern California, 1994
Career	Taught at Brigham Young University since 1994
Affiliations	Association for Mormon Letters; International Society for the History of Rhetoric; Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Awards	Association for Mormon Letters Award in Criticism, 1992, for "Should We Ask, 'Is this Mormon Literature?': Towards a Mormon Criticism."

Works by Gideon O. Burton Sort by title	Year	Genre
Mormon Literary Library		Series
Establishing Shot: The Scope of Mormon Cinema	2007	Criticism
A Manifesto for "Fit for the Kingdom": Dean Duncan's Proposal for a Mormon Documentary Series	2007	Criticism
Toward a Mormon Cinematic Aesthetic: Film Styles in Legacy	2007	Criticism
Mormons, Opera, and Mozart	2004	Criticism
Our Mormon Renaissance	2004	Criticism
The Threat of Mormon Cinema	2004	Criticism
Twentieth-Century Mormon Eloquence: A Stylistic Analysis of Two Sermons by Neal A. Maxwell	2004	Criticism
Engaging the Environment through LDS Writing	2002	Criticism
Making Mormon Cinema: Hype or Hope?	2002	Criticism
The Literary Legacy of Eugene England	2001	Criticism
A Model Faithful Voice	2001	Criticism
National Christian Fiction and Publishing: Have Latter-day Saints Been Left Behind?	2001	Criticism
Traditions of LDS Publishing	2001	Criticism
The Unerasable Mormonism of Lance Larsen's Erasable Walls	2000	Criticism
Should We Ask, "Is this Mormon Literature?": Towards a Mormon Criticism.	1999	Criticism
The State of Mormon Literature and Criticism	1999	Criticism
Keeping Company with Wayne Booth: Ethical Responsibility and the Conduct of Mormon Criticism	1996	Criticism
A History of Mormon Cinema	2007	History
A History of the Association for Mormon Letters Literary Awards	2002	History
Love's Lungs	2001	Poetry
Nacho Hell	2001	Poetry
Sin and Simile	2000	Poetry
Translator	1995	Poetry
VUISSA, The Errand of Angels		Review