It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read The Promise of Nostalgia by Nicola Sayers
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including The Virgin Suicides, both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation, photography of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’, and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output – to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. Counter to the prevalent caricature of nostalgia as anti-future, the book proposes a more nuanced reading of its stakes and meanings. Instead of understanding it as evidence of the absence of utopia it contends that there is a masked utopian impulse in this...
The Promise of Nostalgia by Nicola Sayers is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read The Promise of Nostalgia aloud.
The Promise of Nostalgia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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