How Long to Read Inventions of Reading

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventions of Reading?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Inventions of Reading by Clayton Koelb

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

Description

Where do writers of fiction get their ideas? Clayton Koelb here takes issue with those who regard inspiration or imitation as primary forces influencing literary invention. He finds that another mechanism, which he calls "rhetorical construction," underlies much fiction and some nonfiction as well. Rhetorical construction, Koelb says, is a way of producing writing out of reading. The rhetorical writer begins by discovering an interpretive crux in a familiar text-a passage from the Bible, for example, or a commonplace expression—and then proceeds to imagine a fictional situation in which all the meanings of the passage, contradictory though they may seem, may be realized. According to Koelb, "inventions of reading" do not stop with the discovery of the eternal and inevitable deconstructibility of language; they somehow generate an urge to put language back together through the invention of a fictional world. Among the texts he discusses are writings by Boccaccio, Rabelais, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen Nietzsche, Kafka, Calvino, and Flannery O'Connor.

How long is Inventions of Reading?

Inventions of Reading by Clayton Koelb is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventions of Reading Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read Inventions of Reading aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventions of Reading?

Inventions of Reading 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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