How Long to Read Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot

How Long Does it Take to Read Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot by Jayjit Sarkar

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Description

This work questions the problematic connections between illness and modernity: the complicated negotiations involving the body both in its physicality and phenomenology and the poetics and praxiality of illness. The project, which is predominantly conceptual in nature, for it does not see illness solely as a clinical-physical category (leaning heavily on the medical sciences), but rather perspectivizes its phenomenology and pathographical limits and manifestations, lateralizing on its critical correspondences with a selection of modernist texts ranging from Virginia Woolf to Samuel Beckett. The book unearths different ‘possibilities’ of illness without denying its (quite natural) association with morbidity, pain, suffering, dying and death. It looks at illness and its effects on different bodies phenomenologically with the help of some twentieth-century philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jean Luc-Nancy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre and Emmanuel Levinas. The book locates these phenomenological understandings in a reading of some of the important literary works of early twentieth-century Europe — five literary works from five different genres (poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and epistle) — critiquing the relevance of the phenomenological body in the literary and narrative world of the texts. The author deals with Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Franz Kafka’s letters, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill and T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland within the aesthetico-philosophical space and the epistemic dialogism that modernist aesthetics implies and espouses.

How long is Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot?

Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot by Jayjit Sarkar is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot aloud.

What Reading Level is Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot?

Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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