How Long to Read The Poetics and Politics of the Desert

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poetics and Politics of the Desert?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 2 minutes to read The Poetics and Politics of the Desert by Catrin Gersdorf

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

Description

This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.

How long is The Poetics and Politics of the Desert?

The Poetics and Politics of the Desert by Catrin Gersdorf is 355 pages long, and a total of 90,525 words.

This makes it 120% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poetics and Politics of the Desert Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 14 minutes to read The Poetics and Politics of the Desert aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poetics and Politics of the Desert?

The Poetics and Politics of the Desert 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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