How Long to Read Inventing the Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing the Novel?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Inventing the Novel by R. Bracht Branham

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

Description

Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius Arbiter (whose singular suicide, described by Tacitus, is as famous as his novel). Petronius was the most lauded ancient novelist of the twentieth century and the Satyrica served as the original model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), as well as providing the epigraph for T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), and the basis for Fellini Satyricon (1969). Bakhtin's work on the novel was deeply informed by his philosophical views: if, as a phenomenologist, he is a philosopher of consciousness, as a student of the novel, he is a philosopher of the history of consciousness, and it is the role of the novel in this history that held his attention. This volume seeks to lay out an argument in four parts that supports Bakhtin's sweeping assertion that the Satyrica plays an "immense" role in the history of the novel, beginning in Chapter 1 with his equally striking claim that the novel originates as a new way of representing time and proceeding to the question of polyphony in Petronius and the ancient novel.

How long is Inventing the Novel?

Inventing the Novel by R. Bracht Branham is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing the Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Inventing the Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventing the Novel?

Inventing the Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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