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Find more info., search and price compare for Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction by Russell Banks Binding: Paperback, 4th Printing edition, 128 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial Weight: 0.2 pound Dimension: H: 0.5 x L: 7.8 x W: 4.9 inches ISBN 10: 0060976802 ISBN 13: 9780060976804 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: The Relation of My Imprisonment a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines.Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatization of the test of fait all true believers must endure. These 'relation,' framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recounting of suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form self-consciously, as Russell Banks has done, is not to parody it so much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more intelligently to love it. |
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