How Long to Read Essays Brazilian

How Long Does it Take to Read Essays Brazilian?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Essays Brazilian by Fabio Akcelrud Durão

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

Description

In these crisp, shrewd essays, a scholar of European modernism trains his insights and considerable critical acumen on contemporary Brazil, subjecting to scrutiny those spheres dearest to "Brazilian culture": the Sao Paulo Biennial; tropicalia; City of God (both novel and film). Dialectical readings in the best sense, these brilliant, penetrating essays offer not pat resolutions but all the productive, joyous energy of tensions that pull at one another and spark new meanings and musings. Durao and friends eschew moralism to dwell, for instance, with the paradoxical promises of the pop song, at once utopian and commodified, mass without actually being popular, forging of communities and manipulated affects alike - but they also circle back time and again to the "raging coexistence of domination and resistance" marking contemporary Brazil. Amidst such contradictions, the very concept of equality is subject to ideology critique: neither ignored nor really believed in. Essays Brazilian spans a number of fields and figures, from music, visual art, literature, film, to criticism itself, and from outsider artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario to the contemporary artist Gil Vicente; from reception histories of Adorno, Bakhtin, and 12-tone music in Brazil to Reinaldo Moraes' recent novel Pornopopeia to the surprisingly (and convincingly) profound meaning of goofs in Fernando Meirelles' 2002 film City of God. Throughout, Durao and friends show how both popular and avant-garde artworks address Brazil's complicated history. If the essays suggest that national allegory has not wholly disappeared in the era of globalization, they also suggest - to cite Durao and Trocoli's reading of artist Nuno Ramos - that such allegories might well hold for any work of art today, mixing "exhilaration, because everything remains to be done, and mourning, because everything seems always about to disappear, because it is so difficult for things acquire the state of being, to become existent." Rachel Price Princeton University"

How long is Essays Brazilian?

Essays Brazilian by Fabio Akcelrud Durão is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Essays Brazilian Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Essays Brazilian aloud.

What Reading Level is Essays Brazilian?

Essays Brazilian is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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