How Long to Read Modernity at Sea

How Long Does it Take to Read Modernity at Sea?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Modernity at Sea by Cesare Casarino

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

Description

At once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of literary criticism, Modernity at Sea argues that the nineteenth-century sea narrative played a crucial role in the emergence of a theory of modernity as permanent crisis. In a series of close readings of such works as Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Moby Dick, Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and The Secret Sharer, and Karl Marx's Grundrisse, Cesare Casarino draws upon the thought of twentieth-century figures including Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Leo Bersani, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Antonio Negri to characterize the nineteenth-century ship narrative as the epitome of Michel Foucault's 'heterotopia'-a special type of space that simultaneously represents, inverts, and contests all other spaces in culture. Elaborating Foucault's claim that the ship has been the heterotopia par excellence of Western civilization since the Renaissance, Casarino goes on to argue that the nineteenth-century sea narrative froze the world of the ship just before its disappearance-thereby capturing at once its apogee and its end, and producing the ship as the matrix of modernity.

How long is Modernity at Sea?

Modernity at Sea by Cesare Casarino is 358 pages long, and a total of 92,364 words.

This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Modernity at Sea Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 24 minutes to read Modernity at Sea aloud.

What Reading Level is Modernity at Sea?

Modernity at Sea is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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