How Long to Read Seeking the Perfect Game

How Long Does it Take to Read Seeking the Perfect Game?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Seeking the Perfect Game by Cordelia Chávez Candelaria

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

Description

In this comprehensive study of baseball in American literature, Candelaria looks primarily at novels to explore how writers have used this quintessential American symbol and to examine what the metaphors and images of the fictional universe of baseball have to tell us about ourselves. Her analysis includes both juvenile and adult sports fiction and other types of literary works that draw significantly on baseball imagery. Candelaria offers a probing analysis of the progression from allegory and romanticism in the earliest baseball fiction to the realism, irony, and solipsism of contemporary narrative. Candelaria examines the origins and folklore of baseball, the development of its mythic status as the national game or pastime, as well as early literary treatments. Baseball soon emerged as a romantic and heroic metaphor in juvenile and pulp fiction and as a vehicle for ironic comedy in the work of Ring Lardner and other writers of the early decades of the twentieth century. Allusions to baseball in works by such literary masters as Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, and Ernest Hemingway emphasize the symbolic dimensions of the game, and its mythic possibilities have been fully exploited by more recent writers, notably Bernard Malamud in The Natural and Philip Roth in The Great American Novel. Increasingly complex levels of abstraction are characteristic of the baseball fiction of Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Jay Neugeboren, John Graham Alexander, and Robert Coover. Candelaria offers a probing analysis of the progression from allegory and romanticism in the earliest baseball fiction to the realism, irony, and solipsism of contemporary narratives. A stimulating work of literary and cultural criticism, this book will appeal to students and scholars of American literature, popular culture, American studies, and physical education, as well as to baseball enthusiasts.

How long is Seeking the Perfect Game?

Seeking the Perfect Game by Cordelia Chávez Candelaria is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% 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 Perfect Game Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Seeking the Perfect Game aloud.

What Reading Level is Seeking the Perfect Game?

Seeking the Perfect Game 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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