It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play by Anna J. Davies
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Max Jacob, central figure of early 20th-century Parisian bohemia along with Picasso and Apollinaire, was active at the emergence of Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. But in spite of his close connections with modernism - epitomized by his seminal book of prose poems Le Cornet a des (1916) - Jacob remains a marginal figure. His Breton-Jewish otherness, conversion to Catholicism, and death under the Nazis in 1944 adds to the enigma and shifts the critical focus further still. But Jacobs poetic playfulness - his many-faceted irony, wordplay, narrative heterogeneity, tragi-comedy,...
Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play by Anna J. Davies is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play aloud.
Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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