How Long to Read The Otherness of Words

How Long Does it Take to Read The Otherness of Words?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 4 minutes to read The Otherness of Words by Manfred Jurgensen

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

Description

This is a collection of poetry written over a period of forty years. Selected from twelve separate collections as well as more recent poems, they offer an insight into the development of a poet whose voice is strikingly different from that of most other Australian writers. Its central preoccupation is a search for identity and the quest for redemption. Despite their intensely subjective, almost confessional style, the poems embrace a remarkably far-ranging scale of human experience and emotion, characterised by extensive witticisms, puns and wordplay, perceptive insights and a passionate intelligence. About the author: Manfred Jurgensen is a bilingual poet and novelist of Danish-German background who has travelled extensively, but spent most of his adult life in Australia. His literary publications in English comprise six acclaimed novels, the most recent The Last Australia Day, and thirteen collections of poetry, including a fifteen-canto history of Australia, Shadows of Utopia. What the critics said: A most subtle and perceptive of poets. Judith WrightThe volume as a whole could be described as an inherent search for identity in the verbal and formal construction of the quest itself. Editor’s Note … the quest is concerned as much with an enduring faith in the possibility of resolving, or at least harmoniously mediating, the tensions between an idealised life and the rigours of everyday reality, as with the need to come to terms with the fragmented, insistent self and its own troubled past, those ‘memories / bleeding in the sheets’ (51). Alex Skovron, ForewordManfred Jurgensen is something of a phenomenon in contemporary Australian poetry. Vincent Buckley

How long is The Otherness of Words?

The Otherness of Words by Manfred Jurgensen is 475 pages long, and a total of 121,125 words.

This makes it 160% the length of the average book. It also has 148% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Otherness of Words Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 1 minute to read The Otherness of Words aloud.

What Reading Level is The Otherness of Words?

The Otherness of Words is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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