How Long to Read Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis

How Long Does it Take to Read Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis by Dr Siobhán Collins

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

Description

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne’s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne’s canon. Siobhán Collins appraises Metempsychosis for its extraordinary openness to and its inventive portrayal of conflict within identity. She situates this ludic verse as a text alert to and imbued with the Elizabethan fascination with the processes and properties of metamorphosis. Contesting the pervasive view that the poem is incomplete, this study illustrates how Metempsychosis is thematically linked with Donne’s other writings through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with temporality and transformation. Collins uses this genre-defying verse as a springboard to contribute significantly to our understanding of early modern concerns over the nature and borders of human identity, and the notion of selfhood as mutable and in process. Drawing on and contributing to recent scholarly work on the history of the body and on sexuality in the early modern period, Collins argues that Metempsychosis reveals the oft-violent processes of change involved in the author’s personal life and in the intellectual, religious and political environment of his time. She places the poem’s somatic representations of plants, beasts and humans within the context of early modern discourses: natural philosophy, medical, political and religious. Collins offers a far-reaching exploration of how Metempsychosis articulates philosophical inquiries that are central to early modern notions of self-identity and moral accountability, such as: the human capacity for autonomy; the place of the human in the ‘great chain of being’; the relationship between cognition and embodiment, memory and selfhood; and the concept of wonder as a distinctly human phenomenon.

How long is Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis?

Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis by Dr Siobhán Collins is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis aloud.

What Reading Level is Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis?

Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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