How Long to Read Dialogues of Love and Government

How Long Does it Take to Read Dialogues of Love and Government?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Dialogues of Love and Government by Alice Spencer

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

Description

Dialogues of Love and Government examines the use of the pseudo-Boethian didactic dialogue form in a wide range of Medieval texts on the theme of love by authors including Machaut, Froissart, Dante, Chaucer, Gower, Usk and Hoccleve. Although the broad, almost universal influence of Boethius in the Middle Ages has been much documented, the present study can be said to break new ground on several fronts. Firstly, whereas scholars have so far tended to focus on the visionary, Apocalyptic conventions deployed in the Consolatio and / or its stoical conclusions, this is the first study to examine the influence of the text qua philosophical dialogue. Secondly, Dialogues of Love and Government contains the first thorough exploration of the recurrent binding together of the dialogue form with the courtly love theme in the Middle Ages, proposing a theory that the origins of such a connection might be traced back to the ancient association between Socratic / Platonic elenchus and the spirit Eros. Finally, it analyses the political implications of this relationship, suggesting that the vertical trajectory of the “erotic” dialogue, with its abstraction away from the many to the one, naturally lends itself to the elitism and absolutism of Platonic politics. The frequent ambiguity and irony of courtly love dialogues – the fact that dialogism, to borrow a term from Bakhtin, is rarely fully overcome - can thus be read as implying scepticism about, or even an outright rejection of notions of love and politics which are Platonic in origin.

How long is Dialogues of Love and Government?

Dialogues of Love and Government by Alice Spencer is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dialogues of Love and Government Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Dialogues of Love and Government aloud.

What Reading Level is Dialogues of Love and Government?

Dialogues of Love and Government is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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