How Long to Read Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language

How Long Does it Take to Read Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 38 minutes to read Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T Hamilton

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

Description

John T. Hamilton investigates how literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation, thereby creating a crisis of language. He particularly focuses on the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, where musical experience and mental disturbance disrupt the expression of referential thought, illuminating the irreducible aspects of the self before language can work them back into a discursive system. The study begins in the 1750s with Diderot's Neveu de Rameau, and situates that text...

How long is Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language?

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T Hamilton is 274 pages long, and a total of 69,596 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 20 minutes to read Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language aloud.

What Reading Level is Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language?

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language 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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