How Long to Read Joy of the Worm

How Long Does it Take to Read Joy of the Worm?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Joy of the Worm by Drew Daniel

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

Description

Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls “joy of the worm,” after Cleopatra’s embrace of the deadly asp in Shakespeare’s play—a pattern where voluntary death is imagined as an occasion for humor, mirth, ecstatic pleasure, even joy and celebration. Daniel draws both a historical and a conceptual distinction between “self-killing” and “suicide.” Standard intellectual histories of suicide in...

How long is Joy of the Worm?

Joy of the Worm by Drew Daniel is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Joy of the Worm Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Joy of the Worm aloud.

What Reading Level is Joy of the Worm?

Joy of the Worm 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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