How Long to Read Joinings

How Long Does it Take to Read Joinings?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 9 minutes to read Joinings by Jonathan Davis-Secord

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

Description

The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in Beowulf, creating slow-motion narrative at moments of significant violence; how their structural complexity gives rhetorical emphasis to phrases in the homilies of Wulfstan; and how they help to mix quotidian and elevated diction in Cynewulf's Juliana and the Old English translations of...

How long is Joinings?

Joinings by Jonathan Davis-Secord is 245 pages long, and a total of 62,475 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Joinings Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to read Joinings aloud.

What Reading Level is Joinings?

Joinings 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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