How Long to Read The Poetics of Palliation

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

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read The Poetics of Palliation by Brittany Pladek

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

Description

Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty years, health humanists and scholars of literature and medicine have drawn on Romantic ideas to argue that literature cures by making sufferers whole again. But this model oversimplifies how Romantic writers thought literature addressed suffering. Poetics documents how writers like William Wordsworth and Mary Shelley explored palliative forms of literary medicine: therapies that stressed literature's manifold relationship to pain and its power to sustain, comfort, and challenge even when cure was not possible. The book charts how Romantic writers developed these palliative poetics in conversation with their medical milieu. British medical ethics was first codified during the Romantic period. Its major writers, John Gregory and Thomas Percival, endorsed a palliative mandate to compensate for doctors' limited curative powers. Similarly, Romantic writers sought palliative approaches when their work failed to achieve starker curative goals. The startling diversity of their results illustrates how palliation offers a more comprehensive metric for literary therapy than the curative traditions we have inherited from Romanticism.

How long is The Poetics of Palliation?

The Poetics of Palliation by Brittany Pladek is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

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

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read The Poetics of Palliation aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poetics of Palliation?

The Poetics of Palliation 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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