How Long to Read Getting to Good Friday

How Long Does it Take to Read Getting to Good Friday?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Getting to Good Friday by Marilynn Richtarik

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

Description

Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Drawing on decades of reading, researching, and teaching Northern Irish literature and talking and corresponding with Northern Irish writers, Marilynn Richtarik describes literary reactions and contributions to the peace process during the fifteen years preceding the Agreement and in the immediate post-conflict era. Progress in this period hinged on negotiators' ability to revise the terms used to discuss the conflict. As poet Michael Longley commented in 1998, 'In its language the Good Friday Agreement depended on an almost poetic precision and suggestiveness to get its complicated message across.' Interpreting selected literary works by Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Deirdre Madden, Seamus Deane, Bernard MacLaverty, Colum McCann, and David Park within a detailed historical frame, Richtarik demonstrates the extent to which authors were motivated by a desire both to comment on and to intervene in unfolding political situations. Getting to Good Friday suggests that literature as literature-that is, in its formal properties in addition to anything it might have to 'say' about a given subject-can enrich readers' historical understanding. Through Richtarik's engaging narrative, creative writing emerges as both the medium of and a metaphor for the peace process itself.

How long is Getting to Good Friday?

Getting to Good Friday by Marilynn Richtarik is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Getting to Good Friday Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Getting to Good Friday aloud.

What Reading Level is Getting to Good Friday?

Getting to Good Friday is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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