Cameron's questions about LDS Literature

How does the journal writings from faithful Latter-day Saint members add to the potential for writing other great pieces of literature? Can we correlate the successes of journalists such as Dorthy Wordsworth and her Grasmere Journal’s with their intent to help William Wordsworth write great poetry, with that of Latter-day Saint journals in creating art and poetry? Or are the two completely different?

How does writing literature enhance our faith in Jesus Christ? As a BYU student, how has taking literature classes enhanced the aims of BYU to promote faith building experiences, intellectual learning, character development and service specifically in comparison with other universities? What are we doing at BYU that’s different?

As a believing Latter-day Saint, where are the limits when it comes to writing fictional LDS material as literature. Are there boundaries when it comes to selecting a specific genre? I think about the Screwtape Lettersthat C.S. Lewis writes or Milton’s Paradise Lost. Surely there is potential for LDS writers to expound on scriptural doctrine in similar ways? Why haven’t people done so? Why wouldn’t it be received as well within the LDS community? 

In the 1880’s, according to Eugene England, LDS leaders stated that no novels should be read during the trek, stating that “the reading of novels [w]as a waste of time and worse, the encouragement of "lies," recommending instead sermons and histories, which dealt in truth and that fiction.” England clarifies that since then, some leaders have started an important movement “to solve the problem by encouraging and creating fiction--and drama, poetry, and essays--that explicitly set out to teach Mormon faith and doctrine.” Are these newly found statements that England uses to contradict pioneer church apostles justified because it lends evidence to the argument that England is trying to convey? In what instances do LDS Church Leaders say that reading fictional LDS novels are encouraged and how do we read them without lending too much confusion of what the General Authorities have taught on doctrine?