How Long to Read Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature by Philip Schwyzer

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

Description

This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary texts including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Donne's sermons and lyrics, and Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. Miraculously preserved corpses, ruined monasteries, Egyptian mummies, and Yorick's skull all figure in this study of the early modern archaeological imagination. The pessimism of the period is summed up in the haunting motif of the beautiful corpse that, once touched, crumbles to dust. Archaeology and literary studies are themselves products of the Renaissance. Although the two disciplines have sometimes viewed one another as rivals, they share a unique and unsettling intimacy with the traces of past life - with the words the dead wrote, sang, or heard, with the objects they made, held, or lived within. Schwyzer argues that at the root of both forms of scholarship lies the forbidden desire to awaken (and speak with) the dead. However impossible or absurd this desire may be, it remains a fundamental source of both ethical responsibility and aesthetic pleasure.

How long is Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature?

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature by Philip Schwyzer is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature?

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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