How Long to Read Subversive Intent

By Susan Rubin Suleiman

How Long Does it Take to Read Subversive Intent?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 4 minutes to read Subversive Intent by Susan Rubin Suleiman

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

Description

With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde. She shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor, has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists of this century. Focusing also on women's avant-garde artistic practices, Suleiman demonstrates how to read difficult modern works in a way that reveals their political as well as their aesthetic impact. Suleiman directly addresses the subversive intent of avant-garde movements from Surrealism to postmodernism. Through her detailed readings of provocatively transgressive works by André Breton, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and others, Suleiman demonstrates the central role of the female body in the male erotic imagination and illuminates the extent to which masculinist assumptions have influenced modern art and theory. By examining the work of contemporary women avantgarde artists and theorists--including Hélène Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Luce Irigaray, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy Sherman--Suleiman shows the political power of feminist critiques of patriarchal ideology, and especially emphasizes the power of feminist humor and parody. Central to Suleiman's revisionary theory of the avant-garde is the figure of the playful, laughing mother. True to the radically irreverent spirit of the historical avant-gardes and their postmodernist successors, Suleiman's laughing mother embodies the need for a link between symbolic innovation and political and social change.

How long is Subversive Intent?

Subversive Intent by Susan Rubin Suleiman is 302 pages long, and a total of 76,104 words.

This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Subversive Intent Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 55 minutes to read Subversive Intent aloud.

What Reading Level is Subversive Intent?

Subversive Intent 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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