How Long to Read The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes

How Long Does it Take to Read The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 11 minutes to read The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes by R Miller

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

Description

Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the varied genres over which his imagination "wandered," Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and the lyrical. The range of Hughes's artistic vision is revealed in his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer. Miller not only affirms in Hughes's work the peculiar qualities of Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of the literary imagination itself.

How long is The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes?

The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes by R Miller is 191 pages long, and a total of 47,941 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 21 minutes to read The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes aloud.

What Reading Level is The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes?

The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes 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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