How Long to Read The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays

How Long Does it Take to Read The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays by Marianne T. Stecher

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Description

This new study addresses the provocative essays of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), an iconic figure in Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world. Celebrated for her literary tales, Karen Blixen’s essays offer sagacious reflections on three significant challenges of the twentieth century: feminism, Nazism, and colonialism. Karen Blixen (1885–1962) contributed to topical debates in Denmark, particularly during the 1950s when her distinct voice on Danish radio became familiar to a nation of listeners. Some of her lectures, radio addresses, and newspaper chronicles were later published as essays and now constitute a distinct genre within her work. In this study, Blixen’s most important essays are critically examined for the first time. The book demonstrates that a "creative dialectic" informs these essays, an interplay of complementary opposites that Blixen sees as fundamental to human life and artistic creativity. Whether exploring questions of gender and the status of the feminist movement, or the reign of National Socialism in Hitler’s Germany, or colonial race relations under British rule in East Africa, Blixen’s observations are insightful, witty, and surprisingly progressive for an author notable for aristocratic sensibilities. Blixen’s essays are also framed by a "dialectic method," which develops an idea by drawing on opposing viewpoints in order to arrive at an original vantage point. The Creative Dialectic of Karen Blixen's Essays builds on archival research, historical study, literary criticism and theory, as well as bilingual readings of Blixen’s renowned literary work. For the first time in an English translation, Karen Blixen’s essay “Blacks and Whites in Africa” (1938), by award-winning translator Tiina Nunnally, appears in this publication.

How long is The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays?

The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays by Marianne T. Stecher is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays aloud.

What Reading Level is The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays?

The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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