How Long to Read Calling from Diffusion

How Long Does it Take to Read Calling from Diffusion?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read Calling from Diffusion by Thomas M. Greene

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

Description

Based on four Nielson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of promenade poems, lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. Thomas M. Greene invites the reader to consider a wide range of poets, beginning with Amy Clampitt and A. R. Ammons, continuing with Petrarch, Ronsard, Saint-Amant, Milton, Vaughan, and Marvell, and concluding with two representative Romantics, Wordsworth and Whitman. Greene's discussions of this rich body of texts stimulate reflection at several levels. They can be read first of all simply as analyses of several memorable poems exhibiting a similar structure over a period of seven centuries. They can also be read as meditations on the workings of lyric poetry, which is always attempting to bring into sharper focus the sensibility of a speaker whose emergence depends on her naming and evoking the objects surrounding her. Thus Greene argues that the distinction of a poetic consciousness lies in its permeability, permitting a more intimate interplay between internal and external realms. His title is drawn from a line by Whitman: You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape! Finally, at yet another level, Greene's book presents a way of thinking about language which, recalling the Heideggerean theory of ereignis, suggests that only through the projective act of naming can human beings assimilate things through intuitive knowledge. An afterword, The Morality of Literary Interpretation, surveys critically a range of hermeneutic theories and formulates a position that accords the literary text both autonomy and mystery.

How long is Calling from Diffusion?

Calling from Diffusion by Thomas M. Greene is 92 pages long, and a total of 23,184 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Calling from Diffusion Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 6 minutes to read Calling from Diffusion aloud.

What Reading Level is Calling from Diffusion?

Calling from Diffusion is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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