It takes the average reader 6 hours and 55 minutes to read Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature by Richard Gaskin
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first...
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature by Richard Gaskin is 412 pages long, and a total of 103,824 words.
This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 127% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 27 minutes to read Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature aloud.
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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