It takes the average reader 11 hours and 48 minutes to read Hyperboles by Christopher D. Johnson
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This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (Góngora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana), English drama (King Lear and translations of Seneca), and French philosophy (Descartes and Pascal), Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Grounding his readings of hyperbole in the history of rhetoric and literary imitation, Johnson traces how rhetorical excess acquires specific cultural, political,...
Hyperboles by Christopher D. Johnson is 695 pages long, and a total of 177,225 words.
This makes it 235% the length of the average book. It also has 217% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 8 minutes to read Hyperboles aloud.
Hyperboles is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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