How Long to Read Rhetoric and Irony

How Long Does it Take to Read Rhetoric and Irony?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Rhetoric and Irony by C. Jan Swearingen

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

Description

This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western concepts of rhetoric as dissembling and of language as deceptive that Swearingen argues have received curiously prominent emphasis in Western aesthetics and language theory. Swearingen reverses the traditional focus on rhetoric as an oral agonistic genre and examines it instead as a paradigm for literate discourse. She proposes that rhetoric and literacy have in the West disseminated the interrelated notions that through learning rhetoric individuals can learn to manipulate language and others; that language is an unreliable, manipulable, and contingent vehicle of thought, meaning, and communication; and that literature is a body of pretty lies and beguiling fictions. In a bold concluding chapter Swearingen aligns her thesis concerning early Western literacy and rhetoric with contemporary critical and rhetorical theory; with feminist studies in language, psychology, and culture; and with studies of literacy in multi- and cross-cultural settings.

How long is Rhetoric and Irony?

Rhetoric and Irony by C. Jan Swearingen is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rhetoric and Irony Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read Rhetoric and Irony aloud.

What Reading Level is Rhetoric and Irony?

Rhetoric and Irony is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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