It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read The Genesis of Fiction by Terry R. Wright
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Genesis, especially those noted by rabbinic midrash, which serves as a model for such creative rewriting of the biblical text. All the novelists considered, from Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Thomas Mann to Jeanette Winterson, Anita Diamant and Jenny Diski, are shown to have been aware of the...
The Genesis of Fiction by Terry R. Wright is 200 pages long, and a total of 50,000 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 33 minutes to read The Genesis of Fiction aloud.
The Genesis of Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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