How Long to Read Seeking the Beautiful

How Long Does it Take to Read Seeking the Beautiful?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Seeking the Beautiful by Edward Risden

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

Description

Seeking the Beautiful: A Study in Literary Aesthetics comprises essays both theoretical and applied, with a focus on English medieval and Renaissance texts. While the term aesthetics may imply simply sensory perception or expression, this volume considers what makes literary texts beautiful. While of course any such study must involve subjective judgment, one can still describe subjective experience and share it with others, with the goal of expanding others' and one's own potential for enjoying works of literary art. Academic discussion most often deals with meaning or the social or psychological implications of writing and reading, and we tend to neglect what often draws us to read in the first place: a text's verbal or imaginative beauty. Our favourite texts make us re-readers as well as readers. Using a variety of examples--including Shakespeare plays, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Worth's Urania, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Chaucer's Knight's Tale, Beowulf, 'The Dream of the Rood' and others, this study highlights the idea of texture, pleasure through depth, variety, and passionate liveliness, as a means to consider textual beauty. Explicitly an essay, an attempt, it aims to connect theoretical strands from Classical through Postmodern thought to formulate a joy of reading that may encourage dialogue on why we love the literature we love.

How long is Seeking the Beautiful?

Seeking the Beautiful by Edward Risden is 179 pages long, and a total of 46,361 words.

This makes it 60% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Seeking the Beautiful Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Seeking the Beautiful aloud.

What Reading Level is Seeking the Beautiful?

Seeking the Beautiful is suitable for students ages 10 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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