It takes the average reader 5 hours to read The Taciturn Text by Randolph Paul Runyon
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to their sons is examined in this highly original study of Robert Penn Warren's fiction. In every case, that text-whether a letter, a poem, a handbill or a wink-refuses to disclose what the son who reads it wants to know. This recurring scene, clearly inscribed in the plot of each of the novels, gives coherence to Warren's art and at the same time writes the reader into the story. We become the protagonist son, and the questions he asks are the ones we too want to ask. And to gain access to the text, we must learn to decipher what Warren...
The Taciturn Text by Randolph Paul Runyon is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.
This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read The Taciturn Text aloud.
The Taciturn Text is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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