How Long to Read Hurt and Pain

How Long Does it Take to Read Hurt and Pain?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Hurt and Pain by Susannah B. Mintz

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

Description

Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body examines the strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides readings of canonical writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson, and Samuel Beckett, alongside contemporary writers such as Ana Castillo and Margaret Edson, focusing on how pain is shaped according to the conventions-and also experiments-of genre: poetry, memoir, drama, and fiction. With insights from disability theory and recent studies of the language of pain, Mintz delivers an important corrective to our most basic fears of physical suffering, revealing through literature that pain can be a source of connection, compassion, artistry, and knowledge. Not only an important investigation of authors' formal and rhetorical choices, Hurt and Pain reveals how capturing pain in literature can become a fundamental component of crafting human experience.

How long is Hurt and Pain?

Hurt and Pain by Susannah B. Mintz is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hurt and Pain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Hurt and Pain aloud.

What Reading Level is Hurt and Pain?

Hurt and Pain 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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