How Long to Read Taboo

How Long Does it Take to Read Taboo?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 41 minutes to read Taboo by Hannah Thompson

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

Description

French realist texts are driven by representations of the body and depend on corporeality to generate narrative intrigue. But anxieties around bodily representation undermine realist claims of objectivity and transparency. Aspects of bodily reality which threaten les bonnes moeurs - gender confusion, sexual appetite, disability, torture, murder, child abuse and disease - rarely occupy the foreground and are instead spurned or only partially alluded to by writers and critics. This wide-ranging study uses the notion of the taboo as a powerful means of interpreting representations of the body. The hidden bodies of realist texts reveal their secrets in unexpected ways. Thompson reads texts by Sand, Rachilde, Maupassant, Hugo, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Mirbeau and Zola alongside modern theorists of the body to show how the figure of the taboo plots an alternative model of author-reader relations based on the struggle to speak the unspeakable. Dr Hannah Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in French at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book, Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola, was published by Legenda in 2004.

How long is Taboo?

Taboo by Hannah Thompson is 157 pages long, and a total of 40,349 words.

This makes it 53% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Taboo Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Taboo aloud.

What Reading Level is Taboo?

Taboo 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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