How Long to Read Beating the Bounds

How Long Does it Take to Read Beating the Bounds?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read Beating the Bounds by Roy Benjamin

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

Description

Exploring the role of boundaries and limits in the writing of James Joyce Beating the Bounds examines the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce’s later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on the ideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and scholar Fritz Senn, Roy Benjamin explains and reconciles Joyce’s contrary tendencies to establish and transgress limits. Benjamin begins by contrasting Joyce’s exploration of the artificial impositions of ritual and political power with the writer’s attention to natural boundaries of rivers and mountains. The next section considers sexual, spiritual, and interpersonal boundaries in the Wake. Benjamin then discusses how Joyce simultaneously affirms and undermines the limits of philosophy, geometry, and aesthetics. The final section covers Joyce’s representation of the boundaries imposed in cosmogonic myths, the collision between the bounded medieval world and the boundless world of modern science, and the drive to escape from the boundaries of place. In this detailed and original analysis, Benjamin demonstrates that in Joyce’s writing, the tendency to disintegrate into chaos is countered by an urge to impose order. Benjamin’s close readings put an abundance of subjects in conversation through the concept of limits, showing the Wake’s relevance to many different fields of thought. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

How long is Beating the Bounds?

Beating the Bounds by Roy Benjamin is 265 pages long, and a total of 67,575 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Beating the Bounds Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Beating the Bounds aloud.

What Reading Level is Beating the Bounds?

Beating the Bounds is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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