How Long to Read Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

How Long Does it Take to Read Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante by Elena Lombardi

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Description

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval times. From Guittone d'Arezzo's piercing critic, the 'villainous woman', to the mysterious Lady who bids Guido Cavalcanti to write his grand philosophical song, to Dante's female co-editors in the Vita Nova and his great characters of female readers, such as Francesca and Beatrice in the Comedy, all the way to Boccaccio's overtly female audience, this particular interlocutor appears to be central to the construct of textuality and the construction of literary authority. This volume explores the figure of the woman reader by contextualizing her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her. It argues that these figures are not mere veneers between a male author and a 'real' male readership, but that, although fictional, they bring several advantages to their vernacular authors, such as orality, the mother tongue, the recollection of the delights of early education, literality, freedom in interpretation, absence of teleology, the beauties of ornamentation and amplification, a reduced preoccupation with the fixity of the text, the pleasure of making mistakes, dialogue with the other, the extension of desire, original simplicity, and new and more flexible forms of authority.

How long is Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante?

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante by Elena Lombardi is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante aloud.

What Reading Level is Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante?

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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