How Long to Read Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread

How Long Does it Take to Read Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 3 minutes to read Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread by Lydia Goehr

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

Description

A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? Lydia Goehr explores these narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?

How long is Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread?

Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread by Lydia Goehr is 721 pages long, and a total of 180,971 words.

This makes it 243% the length of the average book. It also has 221% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 28 minutes to read Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread aloud.

What Reading Level is Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread?

Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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