How Long to Read Masks of Authority

How Long Does it Take to Read Masks of Authority?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Masks of Authority by Claude Calame

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

Description

Exploring a variety of literary texts representing different poetic genres, Claude Calame, an internationally known classicist, draws the lineaments of a real history of the means used by ancient Greek poets to create in their works a fictional authorship. In this collection of essays, he shows that they made of their poems, through various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with the collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit in the ideas of craft and performance. How is it possible to distinguish between the external context and reception of a discursive work and the elaborate poetic effects produced in the text itself by means of language? Clearly, the partly fictional figure of the author "constructed" by the text is not the same as the biographical author. In ancient Greece, moreover, the person of the composer of a poem was often distinct from the person of its performer.Important examples in Masks of Authority include some of the Homeric Hymns, didactic poetry by Hesiod, a bucolic poem of Theocritus, performed poetry by Sappho and mimetic poems by Callimachus, Attic tragedy and comedy in masked performances (Sophocles and Aristophanes), an iconographic inscription, an authoritative scientific discourse by Hippocrates, and an initiatory commentary to an Orphic theogony. The result is a selective history of Greek poetics from the perspective of its authorial devices and social functions, its place between oral and written traditions.

How long is Masks of Authority?

Masks of Authority by Claude Calame is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Masks of Authority Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read Masks of Authority aloud.

What Reading Level is Masks of Authority?

Masks of Authority is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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