How Long to Read Arts of Dying

How Long Does it Take to Read Arts of Dying?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Arts of Dying by D. Vance Smith

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

Description

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn’t due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy’s attempt to designate death’s impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.

How long is Arts of Dying?

Arts of Dying by D. Vance Smith is 310 pages long, and a total of 77,500 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Arts of Dying Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Arts of Dying aloud.

What Reading Level is Arts of Dying?

Arts of Dying is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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