How Long to Read Speaking the Taboo

How Long Does it Take to Read Speaking the Taboo?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Speaking the Taboo by Paul Cooke

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

Description

Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social ‘taboos’, as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig’s critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig’s texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state’s official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the ‘taboo’, i.e. that...

How long is Speaking the Taboo?

Speaking the Taboo by Paul Cooke is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Speaking the Taboo Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Speaking the Taboo aloud.

What Reading Level is Speaking the Taboo?

Speaking the Taboo 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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