How Long to Read The Aesthetics of Artifice

How Long Does it Take to Read The Aesthetics of Artifice?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read The Aesthetics of Artifice by Marie Lathers

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

Description

Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Eve Future, a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her life to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.

How long is The Aesthetics of Artifice?

The Aesthetics of Artifice by Marie Lathers is 162 pages long, and a total of 40,824 words.

This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Aesthetics of Artifice Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 43 minutes to read The Aesthetics of Artifice aloud.

What Reading Level is The Aesthetics of Artifice?

The Aesthetics of Artifice is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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