How Long to Read Poetry, Signs, and Magic

How Long Does it Take to Read Poetry, Signs, and Magic?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Poetry, Signs, and Magic by Thomas M. Greene

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

Description

Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts - magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in this diminishment there occurs a verbal subtlety, and figural poignancy, commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures. Greene employs his well-known skills as a close reader to texts by a range of writers including a variety of contemporary theorists. in diverse contexts the distinction between disjunctive and conjunctive linguistics, dual theories of sound and meaning of crucial importance to Plato and Aristotle, to Catholic and Protestant debates on the sacraments, to the more recent skeptical methodologies of Derrida and de Man. Thomas M. Greene was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

How long is Poetry, Signs, and Magic?

Poetry, Signs, and Magic by Thomas M. Greene is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Poetry, Signs, and Magic Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Poetry, Signs, and Magic aloud.

What Reading Level is Poetry, Signs, and Magic?

Poetry, Signs, and Magic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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