How Long to Read Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text

How Long Does it Take to Read Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text by Algirdas Julien Greimas

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

Description

Translated by Paul PerronMaupassant's short story, “Two Friends”, is examined in order to test methodological tools and to hone them for their application in the analysis of narrative discourse, starting from the oral tale (Propp) and ending with the written tale instituted as literary genre. Complex procedures of textual production are identified: among which entire sequences as well as the “evenemential” level of narrative fade away in favor of its cognitive dimension. This semiotic investigation is accompanied by a challenge to certain conventions of literary criticism: dialogue, the locus of Realist stereotypes, appears laden with paradoxical truths; the description of nature, inherited from the Romantics, bristles with narrative intent, and entire sections of a valorized figurative universe unfold before us. Thematic readings are linked up with semantic analysis: the figure of Water exerts its profound fascination. A Christian symbolics is uncovered which traverses the text and invites us to read it as a new Gospel Parable. New readings complement older ones and remain as so many suspended possibilities. The tale appears somewhat as a sonnet, that is to say as a “fixed-form” genre, where the closure of the text would be a necessary condition for transcending it.

How long is Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text?

Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text by Algirdas Julien Greimas is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text aloud.

What Reading Level is Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text?

Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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