How Long to Read All the Difference in the World

How Long Does it Take to Read All the Difference in the World?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read All the Difference in the World by Natalie Melas

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

Description

This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted evolutionary models to place European literature at the forefront of human development. This book argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. The point is not simply to bring more objects under comparison, but rather to examine the process of comparison. The book offers a new approach to the either/or of relativism and universalism, in which comparison is either impossible or assimilatory, by focusing instead on various forms of “incommensurability”—comparisons in which there is a ground for comparison but no basis for equivalence. Each chapter develops a particular form of such cultural comparison from readings of important novelists (Joseph Conrad, Simone Schwartz-Bart), poets (Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott), and theorists (Edouard Glissant, Jean-Luc Nancy).

How long is All the Difference in the World?

All the Difference in the World by Natalie Melas is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.

This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read All the Difference in the World Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read All the Difference in the World aloud.

What Reading Level is All the Difference in the World?

All the Difference in the World is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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