How Long to Read Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

How Long Does it Take to Read Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger

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Description

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the...

How long is Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)?

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) aloud.

What Reading Level is Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)?

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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