It takes the average reader 2 hours and 56 minutes to read Chaucerian Theatricality by John M. Ganim
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Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the "carnivalesque" and the "dialogic," at the same time...
Chaucerian Theatricality by John M. Ganim is 174 pages long, and a total of 44,196 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 54% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 1 minute to read Chaucerian Theatricality aloud.
Chaucerian Theatricality is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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