How Long to Read The Price of Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read The Price of Literature?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Price of Literature by Patrick M. Bray

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

Description

The Price of Literature examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on a gift. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we now call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick M. Bray shows how literature’s freedom to represent anything at all has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself—unless this theory is a necessarily subversive literary representation, or “the novel’s theoretical turn.” Literary thought, or the theory produced by the text, can only function by exploring what escapes dominant representations. The Price of Literature analyzes how certain iconic texts from the nineteenth century (by Mme de Staël, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust) perform a theoretical turn to claim the freedom to represent anything in the world, but also literature’s ability to transform the world it represents. The conclusion advances a new way of thinking about literary scholarship—one based on how literature redistributes ways of writing by lending form to thought.

How long is The Price of Literature?

The Price of Literature by Patrick M. Bray is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Price of Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Price of Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is The Price of Literature?

The Price of Literature is suitable for students ages 10 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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