How Long to Read Risking Desire

How Long Does it Take to Read Risking Desire?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Risking Desire by Alexandra Kollontai Cook

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Description

"Risking Desire" considers how late antique and medieval poets and scholars represent the pleasures, risks and dangers at stake in their encounter with pagan antiquity. For medieval authors from Augustine to Chaucer, the classical past haunted the Christian present, offering a treasury of cultural and intellectual goods that could not be refused, but threatened nonetheless to infect readers with the contagion of pagan ideologies. Chaucer follows in the wake of a series of seminal writers---Augustine, Boethius, Jean de Meun---who grapple with the risks that attend encounters with pagan materials. Some protect themselves by moralizing classical tales, collapsing the entire set of meanings that pagan literature might signify into narrowly moral terms, but Chaucer calls these techniques of safety into question. His poetry illuminates the medieval fascination with classical materials; paradoxically, he shows that this fascination is fueled by the very potential of pagan materials to destabilize Christian constructs of safety. Chaucer scholars commonly suppose that Chaucer's aim is to settle his readers' questions about pagan thought and to offer them safe ethical havens. I argue instead that his strategic refusal to endorse such methods is designed to make readers suspicious of the formulas that promise ethical certainty in relation to the past. Further, I show that in his pagan poems Chaucer confronts his readers not only with the dangers of pagan antiquity but also with their desire for those very dangers. For Chaucer, risk is a source of the pleasure that medieval culture takes in contemplating its history.

How long is Risking Desire?

Risking Desire by Alexandra Kollontai Cook is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Risking Desire Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read Risking Desire aloud.

What Reading Level is Risking Desire?

Risking Desire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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