How Long to Read The Feminization of Dr. Faustus

How Long Does it Take to Read The Feminization of Dr. Faustus?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read The Feminization of Dr. Faustus by Helga Druxes

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

Description

While the decline of the male hero in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is usually studied in isolation, Druxes uses a major manifestation of this phenomenon&—the failing power of the Faust myth&—as an interpretive lens through which to illuminate the corresponding rise in the viability of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Her study of the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James, and the contemporary writer Morgner is further unusual in that she carries out her analyses both against the background of the sociohistorical factors conditioning these female figures and with reference to the mutual interaction of plot and novel form. Since nineteenth-century writers make female subjectivity the arena in which the conflicts of male subjecthood are debated, their attempts to create female versions of the heroic quest for self-knowledge speak not only to the crisis of the male model but also to the crisis of the realistic novel. Using psychoanalytic theory and French feminist and deconstructionist theory, Helga Druxes shows how the female Faustian quest for worldly knowledge and subjecthood develops a new concept of identity that takes its social constructedness into account, and she demonstrates some of the transgressive narrative strategies that male and female writers have employed, embodying their dissent not only in the creation of a female Faust but in their visions of an authentic female desire for selfhood and socially regenerative female bonding.

How long is The Feminization of Dr. Faustus?

The Feminization of Dr. Faustus by Helga Druxes 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 Feminization of Dr. Faustus Aloud?

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

What Reading Level is The Feminization of Dr. Faustus?

The Feminization of Dr. Faustus is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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