How Long to Read Tales of magic, tales in print

How Long Does it Take to Read Tales of magic, tales in print?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Tales of magic, tales in print by Willem De Blecourt

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

Description

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.

How long is Tales of magic, tales in print?

Tales of magic, tales in print by Willem De Blecourt is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tales of magic, tales in print Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Tales of magic, tales in print aloud.

What Reading Level is Tales of magic, tales in print?

Tales of magic, tales in print 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Tales of magic, tales in print?

Tales of magic, tales in print by Willem De Blecourt is sold by several retailers and bookshops. However, Read Time works with Amazon to provide an easier way to purchase books.

To buy Tales of magic, tales in print by Willem De Blecourt on Amazon click the button below.