How Long to Read Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

How Long Does it Take to Read Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich

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Description

A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Rich’s essays unite the political, personal, and poetical like no other. Essential Essays is edited and includes an introduction by leading feminist scholar, literary critic, and poet Sandra M. Gilbert. Emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement, the essays selected here range from the 1960s to 2008. The volume contains one of Rich’s earliest essays,“When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” which discusses the need for female self-definition, along with excerpts from her ambitious, ground-breaking Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. As the New York Times wrote, Rich “brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse,” as evidenced in her 1980 essay, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Also among these insightful and forward-thinking works are: “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity”; excerpts from What Is Found There, about the need to reexamine the literary canon; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts”; “Poetry and the Forgotten Future”; and other writings that profoundly shaped second-wave feminism, each balanced by Rich’s signature blend of research, theory, and self-reflection.

How long is Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry?

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry aloud.

What Reading Level is Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry?

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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