How Long to Read Resisting Representation

How Long Does it Take to Read Resisting Representation?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Resisting Representation by Elaine Scarry

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

Description

Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally available for representation. On the contrary, these essays present discussions of experiences and concepts that challenge, defeat, or block representation. Physical pain, physical labor, the hidden reflexes of cognition and its judgments about the coherence or incoherence of the world are all phenomena that test the resources of language. Using primarily literary sources (works by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others), Scarry also draws on painting, medical advertising, and philosophic dialogue to probe the limitations of expression and representation. Resisting Representation celebrates language. It looks at the problematic areas of expression not at the moment when representation is resisted, but at the moment when that resistance is at last overcome, thus suggesting a domain of plenitude and inclusion.

How long is Resisting Representation?

Resisting Representation by Elaine Scarry is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Resisting Representation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read Resisting Representation aloud.

What Reading Level is Resisting Representation?

Resisting Representation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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