How Long to Read The Tragedy of Fatherhood

How Long Does it Take to Read The Tragedy of Fatherhood?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read The Tragedy of Fatherhood by Silke-Maria Weineck

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

Description

Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association. Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of benign, legitimate rule. The paternal trope gains its strength from its integration of law, body, and affect-in the affirmative model of fatherhood, the biological father, the legal father, and the father who protects and nurtures his children are one and the same, and in a complex system of mutual interdependence, the father of the family is symbolically linked to the paternal gods of monotheism and the paternal ruler of the monarchic state. If tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conflict between competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure. Silke-Maria Weineck traces both the tensions and various strategies to resolve them through a series of readings of seminal literary and theoretical texts in the Western cultural tradition. In doing so, she demonstrates both the fragility and resilience of fatherhood as the most important symbol of political power. A long history of fatherhood in literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Tragedy of Fatherhood weaves together figures as seemingly disparate as Aristotle, Freud, Kafka, and Kleist, to produce a stunning reappraisal of the nature of power in the Western tradition.

How long is The Tragedy of Fatherhood?

The Tragedy of Fatherhood by Silke-Maria Weineck is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Tragedy of Fatherhood Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read The Tragedy of Fatherhood aloud.

What Reading Level is The Tragedy of Fatherhood?

The Tragedy of Fatherhood 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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