How Long to Read The Form of American Romance

How Long Does it Take to Read The Form of American Romance?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read The Form of American Romance by Edgar Dryden

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

Description

Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit—or at least devalue—the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.

How long is The Form of American Romance?

The Form of American Romance by Edgar Dryden is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Form of American Romance Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read The Form of American Romance aloud.

What Reading Level is The Form of American Romance?

The Form of American Romance is suitable for students ages 12 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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