It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust by Jennifer Rushworth
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality...
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust by Jennifer Rushworth is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust aloud.
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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