How Long to Read Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala

How Long Does it Take to Read Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala by Thomas A. DuBois

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

Description

Since its initial publication in the early nineteenth century, Elias Lonnrot’s Finnish epic Kalevala has attracted international interest and scholarship. However, the author comments that the distorting lenses of translation, cultural difference and historical distance, have rendered the work a cryptic and often misinterpreted text outside of its country of origin. Even within Finland, scholars have found it difficult at times to judge the relation of the Kalevala to its oral sources. Lonnrot’s meticulous notes and discussions of intent and accomplishment make clear what he changed and how he went about it, but give us less inkling of why. This study's view is that the key to understanding Lonnrot’s changes lies in Romantic aesthetics and in the intellectual and socio-political agendas which they encode. Lonnrot created a Romantic epic out of Baltic-Finnic folk poetry, an epic complete with the narrative, generic, gendered and political characteristics of literary epics in nineteenth century’ Europe.

How long is Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala?

Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala by Thomas A. DuBois is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala aloud.

What Reading Level is Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala?

Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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