How Long to Read Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse

How Long Does it Take to Read Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse by Dr Karen Elaine Smyth

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Description

Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time in fifteenth-century literary culture, focusing on poems of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Karen Smyth begins with an overview of medieval time-keeping devices and considers collective and individual attitudes and perceptions of time. She then examines a range of Middle English authors' appropriations and innovations in relation to such perceptions, identifying competitions of tradition and innovation, allowing for an interrogation of commonly accepted medieval theories of time. An empirically based morphology emerges and is used to examine narratives of time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's work. Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Karen Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem. Smyth simultaneously draws attention to Lydgate's and Hoccleve's underestimated artistic skills and lays out a means to re-evaluate medieval cultural attitudes towards time.

How long is Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse?

Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse by Dr Karen Elaine Smyth 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 Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse aloud.

What Reading Level is Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse?

Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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