It takes the average reader 5 hours and 29 minutes to read Allegories of Reading by Paul De Man
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This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the places in the text where those difficulties are most apparent or most incisively reflected upon. The close reading leads to the elaboration of a more general model of textual understanding, in which de Man shows that the thematic aspects of the texts--their assertions of truth or falsehood as well as their...
Allegories of Reading by Paul De Man is 324 pages long, and a total of 82,296 words.
This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 29 minutes to read Allegories of Reading aloud.
Allegories of Reading is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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