How Long to Read The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness

How Long Does it Take to Read The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness by Galya Diment

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Description

Galya Diment draws a novel comparison between two giants of modernism and a relatively obscure nineteenth-century Russian realist, claiming that the three writers all reinvented the idea of duality in literature. Focusing on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Joyce's Ulysses, and Goncharov's A Common Story, she introduces and refines the idea of "co-consciousness" as the mechanism that allows each work to transcend the genre of the autobiographical bildungsroman and the classical tradition of duality, represented by the doppelganger. Defining co-consciousness as the means by which writers fictionalize what appear to be equally conscious sides of their personalities, she argues that this concept is the telling distinction between these three "divided-they-stand" writers and the "divided-they-fall" approach of other celebrated masters of the double. A crucial feature of the three writers is their tendency to tolerate the split personality as an inevitable yet not life-threatening condition. Diment presents strong evidence that the fictional split self often functions not only as an expression of a writer's inner conflicts but also as a powerful and conscious artistic tool. For Woolf, Joyce, and Goncharov, she writes, the fictional alter ego appears to act as a critical buffer between the writers themselves and their autobiographical material. The author discusses at some length the extent to which the concept of "simultaneous consciousness" is psychologically valid, and she pays considerable attention to the dual nature of the periods that formed each writer's sensibilities. She ends the main part of the book with Ulysses, she says, because she believes that in this novel "the co-conscious split autobiographical self has found its perfect home."

How long is The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness?

The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness by Galya Diment is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness aloud.

What Reading Level is The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness?

The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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