How Long to Read The Office of Scarlet Letter

How Long Does it Take to Read The Office of Scarlet Letter?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read The Office of Scarlet Letter by Sacvan Bercovitch

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

Description

"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols participate in the dynamics of culture, including the dynamics of constraint."With an approach that both reflects and contests developments in literary studies, Bercovitch explores these connections from two perspectives: first, he examines a historical reading of the novel's unities; and then, a rhetorical analysis of key mid-nineteenth-century issues, at home and abroad. In order to highlight the relation between rhetoric and history, he focuses on the point at which the scarlet letter does its office at last, the moment when Hester decides to come home to America.In The Office of "The Scarlet Letter," Bercovitch argues that the process by which the United States usurped "America" for itself, symbolically, is also the process by which liberalism established political and economic dominance. In the course of his study, he offers sustained discussions of Hawthorne's irony and ambiguity, of aesthetic and social strategies of cohesion, and of the conundrums of liberal dissent. Winner of the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowe prize, The Office of "The Scarlet Letter" provides a theoretical redefinition of the function of symbolism in culture and an exemplary literary-ideological reading of a major text.

How long is The Office of Scarlet Letter?

The Office of Scarlet Letter by Sacvan Bercovitch is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Office of Scarlet Letter Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read The Office of Scarlet Letter aloud.

What Reading Level is The Office of Scarlet Letter?

The Office of Scarlet Letter 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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