It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Birth of Modernism by Leon Surette
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In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette offers a radical revision of our understanding of high modernism. Acknowledging that current post-modern and theoretical critiques have provoked fresh examination of the high culture of the first half of this century, Surette rejects their characterization of modernism as positivistic and absolutist, despite the statements in the 1920s of modernists such as Pound, Eliot, and Joyce. He also rejects the diametrically opposed New Critical view of modernism as sceptical and relativistic. Through an explanation of both familiar and little-known theoretical...
The Birth of Modernism by Leon Surette is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Birth of Modernism aloud.
The Birth of Modernism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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