How Long to Read Immanence and Transcendence

How Long Does it Take to Read Immanence and Transcendence?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Immanence and Transcendence by Robert J. Nelson

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Description

Jean Rotrou is France's neglected classic. Generations of critics have recognized his merits but have done so in a tangential manner. He has been called the "mentor of Corneille" and has been celebrated as the precursor of Racine in classical tragedy and of Moliere in classical comedy. That Routrou can be linked to all three of France's great classical dramatists has been responsible in part for the respectful neglect of the thirty-five of his plays that have survived from a production assumed to be many times as great. Mr. Nelson turns to Rotrou in the dramatist's own setting: the perfervid philosophical and religious atmosphere of the first half of the seventeenth century, a period presumed by some scholars to have prepared the age of Racine, that dramatist of transcendence, in the specifically religious sense, who sees the things of this world as signs of man's dissociation from the Divine Ground of Being. Yet this current of "Le Dieu Cache" was not dominant in the century; a strong belief in "Le Dieu Visible"-an "immanentist current," so to speak-made itself felt in both formal religious writing and in imaginative literature of the period. Indeed, if Racine was by tendency the dramatist of transcendence, so his great rival, Corneille, might be thought of as the dramatist of immanence. An elaborate expression of both tendencies is to be found in Rotrou, to whose dramatic example both Corneille and Racine turned at various moments of their careers. Profoundly preoccupied with the relation between the human and the divine, Rotrou's theater of sacrament and sacrilege demonstrates the continuity of, as well as the disparity between, Christianity and the classical heritage. Robert J. Nelson is professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana."

How long is Immanence and Transcendence?

Immanence and Transcendence by Robert J. Nelson is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Immanence and Transcendence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Immanence and Transcendence aloud.

What Reading Level is Immanence and Transcendence?

Immanence and Transcendence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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