It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Sailor Talk by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea. From this argument many other compelling threads emerge, including questions relating to the seafarer's multifaceted identity, maritime labor, questions of performativity, the ship as 'theater, ' the varied and multiple registers of 'sailor talk, ' and the...
Sailor Talk by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.
This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read Sailor Talk aloud.
Sailor Talk is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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