How Long to Read Salome and the Dance of Writing

How Long Does it Take to Read Salome and the Dance of Writing?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read Salome and the Dance of Writing by Françoise Meltzer

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

Description

How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing. Meltzer's readings of textual portraits—in the Gospel writers and Huysmans, Virgil and Stendhal, the Old Testament and Apuleius, Hawthorne and Poe, Kafka and Rousseau,...

How long is Salome and the Dance of Writing?

Salome and the Dance of Writing by Françoise Meltzer is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Salome and the Dance of Writing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Salome and the Dance of Writing aloud.

What Reading Level is Salome and the Dance of Writing?

Salome and the Dance of Writing 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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