How Long to Read "A Serpentine Gesture"

How Long Does it Take to Read "A Serpentine Gesture"?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read "A Serpentine Gesture" by Elisabeth W. Joyce

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In “A Serpentine Gesture”: John Ashbery’s Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery’s poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and articulate shifts in their internal repositories through encounters with new material. Joyce argues that this process reflects Ashbery’s classic statement of poetry being the “experience of experience.” Through incisive close readings of Ashbery’s poems, Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions into the “serpentine gesture” of language.

How long is "A Serpentine Gesture"?

"A Serpentine Gesture" by Elisabeth W. Joyce is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read "A Serpentine Gesture" Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read "A Serpentine Gesture" aloud.

What Reading Level is "A Serpentine Gesture"?

"A Serpentine Gesture" is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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