How Long to Read In the Skin of a Beast

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Skin of a Beast?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read In the Skin of a Beast by Peggy McCracken

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion at play in both human-animal and human-human interactions. Peggy McCracken discusses a range of literary texts and images from medieval France, including romances in which animal skins appear in symbolic displays of power, fictional explorations of the wolf’s desire for human domestication, and tales of women and snakes converging in a representation of territorial claims and noble status. These works reveal that the qualities traditionally used to define sovereignty—lineage and gender among them—are in fact mobile and contingent. In medieval literary texts, as McCracken demonstrates, human dominion over animals is a disputed model for sovereign relations among people: it justifies exploitation even as it mandates protection and care, and it depends on reiterations of human-animal difference that paradoxically expose the tenuous nature of human exceptionalism.

How long is In the Skin of a Beast?

In the Skin of a Beast by Peggy McCracken is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Skin of a Beast Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read In the Skin of a Beast aloud.

What Reading Level is In the Skin of a Beast?

In the Skin of a Beast is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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