How Long to Read The Poetics of Colonization

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poetics of Colonization?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read The Poetics of Colonization by Associate Professor of Classical Studies Carol Dougherty

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

Description

Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continued to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled. This book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement. Unique in its focus on issues of representation and colonial ideology, rather than the traditional historical approach, this book adds much to the study of the archaic colonization movement. Through new historicist readings, Carol Dougherty shows how, long after the Greek colonization movement itself was over, the colonial tale, embedded in important poetic genres and performed as part of significant civic occasions, enabled the Greeks to continue to colonize the past and to establish themselves as the imperial power in that cultural memory.

How long is The Poetics of Colonization?

The Poetics of Colonization by Associate Professor of Classical Studies Carol Dougherty is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poetics of Colonization Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read The Poetics of Colonization aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poetics of Colonization?

The Poetics of Colonization is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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