How Long to Read Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons

How Long Does it Take to Read Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons by Dominique Goy-Blanquet

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Description

The interaction of poetry and politics has shaped Joan into a transnational myth dedicated to the most contradictory causes. No other character has inspired a more impressive list of writers, but no other myth possesses the malleability required to serve rival camps. Whatever their distortions of fact for art's sake, these famed authors deployed an extensive knowledge of known records. The quality of the exchanges between the best creative and philosophical minds of preceding centuries, their capacity for reading, range of interests, literary judgment, critical shrewdness, all offer priceless models of investigation for our times. A close inquiry into the makings of the legendary heroine brings to light various false impressions still endorsed today by a number of noteworthy historians and literary critics. This collection of essays, updated for the English language edition, follows Joan of Arc in the Western consciousness, throughout the chain of texts, fictions, comments, from the time of her launching into celebrity by Jean Gerson and Christine de Pizan to the most recent stage and film versions. D. Goy-Blanquet investigates the exchanges between England, France and Germany, down to Joan's nationalisation by Michelet. Francoise Michaud-Frejaville studies, through little known seventeenth-century versions, a period of decline in the heroine's popularity, with Jean Chapelain's much decried Pucelle at its lowest ebb. Nadia Margolis picks up the thread from Michelet to explore the background of frenzied political quarrels, and personal self-identifications, for possession of the nineteenth-century heroine, down to their ultimate appropriation, that by the National Front. Jacques Darras questions Peguy and the warmongers who used Joan as a firebrand against pacifists like Jean Jaures, down to the singular fate of Anouilh's L'Alouette, and beyond them the nationalistic strains which continue to infect the French political scene. An essay composed especially for this

How long is Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons?

Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons by Dominique Goy-Blanquet is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons aloud.

What Reading Level is Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons?

Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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