It takes the average reader 3 hours to read Incarnational Poetics by Rhian Williams
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Incarnational Poetics offers a lively engagement with contemporary debates regarding the close reading of poetry, particularly as seen in neo-Formalism's proclaimed "return" to the text. It looks back to the nineteenth century to consider how the establishment of English Literature as an academic discipline related to contemporaneous Higher Criticism of the Bible. Suggesting that this comparison reveals a foundational relationship between interpreting the body of the divine and the body of the poem, the book uses this as a springboard for thinking about what we undertake when we 'close read' a poem and how this has shaped poetry reading across the subsequent centuries. Focusing its discussion through a progression from 'body' to 'voice' and finally to a secular-materialist reading of the 'word made flesh' the book reveals how theological engagement with the divine body contributes to secular methods of poetry appreciation, and questions the implications of that for public engagement with poetry in a postmodern materialist age.
Incarnational Poetics by Rhian Williams is 176 pages long, and a total of 45,056 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 6 minutes to read Incarnational Poetics aloud.
Incarnational Poetics is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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