How Long to Read Refiguring Authority

How Long Does it Take to Read Refiguring Authority?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Refiguring Authority by E. Michael Gerli

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

Description

In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another—glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another—while playing sophisticated games of literary one-upmanship. The result was that literature in late Renaissance Spain was often more than a simple matter of source and imitation. It must be understood as a far more subtle, palimpsest-like process of forging endless series of texts from other texts, thus linking closely the practices of reading, writing, and rewriting. Like all major writers of the age, Cervantes was responding not just to specific literary traditions but to a broad range of texts and discourses. He expected his well-read audience to recognize his sources and to appreciate their transformations. The notion of writing as reading and reading as writing is thus central to an understanding of Cervantes' literary invention. As he created his works, he constantly questioned and reconfigured the authority of other texts, appropriating, combining, naturalizing, and effacing them, displacing them with his own themes, images, styles, and beliefs. Modern literary theory has confirmed what Cervantes and his contemporaries intuitively knew—that reading and writing are closely linked dimensions of the literary enterprise. Reading Cervantes and his contemporaries in this way enables us to cojnprehend the craft, wit, irony, and subtle conceit that he at the heart of seventeenth-century Spanish literature.

How long is Refiguring Authority?

Refiguring Authority by E. Michael Gerli is 183 pages long, and a total of 46,299 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Refiguring Authority Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Refiguring Authority aloud.

What Reading Level is Refiguring Authority?

Refiguring Authority is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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