How Long to Read The Making of James Agee

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of James Agee?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 48 minutes to read The Making of James Agee by Hugh Davis

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

Description

"In The Making of James Agee, Hugh Davis takes a comprehensive look at Agee's career, showing the interrelatedness of his concerns as a writer. A full view of Agee's oeuvre, Davis argues, illuminates its deeply political nature and reveals a debt to various sources, particularly European surrealism, that have been little noted by previous Agee scholars." "Davis challenges the view of Agee that has persisted since his death - that he is best understood primarily as a romantic individualist at odds with convention and the literary mainstream - and argues that this myth was largely constructed by friends and associates who were so immersed in the tenets of modernism that they distorted Agee's work (and aesthetic intent) in an attempt to purify it in modernist terms. In revealing a writer of far greater complexity than the myth allows, Davis explores, for example, the leftist poetry that Agee wrote in the 1930s, which was almost completely suppressed by his editors. He also throws a fresh light on Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and reevaluates A Death in the Family in light of recent scholarship that has produced an almost entirely new version of the novel, one much closer to Agee's original intentions."--BOOK JACKET.

How long is The Making of James Agee?

The Making of James Agee by Hugh Davis is 338 pages long, and a total of 87,204 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of James Agee Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 56 minutes to read The Making of James Agee aloud.

What Reading Level is The Making of James Agee?

The Making of James Agee is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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