How Long to Read Grafting Helen

How Long Does it Take to Read Grafting Helen?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 57 minutes to read Grafting Helen by Matthew Gumpert

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

Description

History is a love story: a tale of desire and jealousy, abandonment and fidelity, abduction and theft, rupture and reconciliation. This contention is central to Grafting Helen, Matthew Gumpert's original and dazzling meditation on Helen of Troy as a crucial anchor for much of Western thought and literature. Grafting Helen looks at "classicism"—the privileged rhetorical language for describing cultural origins in the West—as a protracted form of cultural embezzlement. No coin in the realm has been more valuable, more circulated, more coveted, or more counterfeited than the one that bears the face of Helen of Troy. Gumpert uncovers Helen as the emblem for the past as something to be stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted, and coveted once again. Tracing the figure of Helen from its classical origins through the Middle Ages, the French Renaissance, and the modern era, Gumpert suggests that the relation of current Western culture to the past is not like the act of coveting; it is the act of coveting, he argues, for it relies on the same strategies, the same defenses, the same denials, and the same delusions.

How long is Grafting Helen?

Grafting Helen by Matthew Gumpert is 353 pages long, and a total of 89,309 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 109% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Grafting Helen Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 8 minutes to read Grafting Helen aloud.

What Reading Level is Grafting Helen?

Grafting Helen is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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