How Long to Read Transforming Tales

How Long Does it Take to Read Transforming Tales?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Transforming Tales by Miranda Griffin

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

Description

Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the lais and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, through the Roman de la Rose and its widespread influence, to the fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé and the vast prose cycles of the late Middle Ages, metamorphosis is a recurrent theme, resulting in some of the best-known and most powerful literature of the era. Transforming Tales is the first book in English to explore in detail the importance of ideas of metamorphosis in French literature from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. This book's purpose is twofold: it traces a series of figures (the werewolf, the snake-woman, the nymph, the magician, amongst others) as they are transformed within individual texts; and it also examines the way in which the stories of transformation themselves become rewritten during the course of the Middle Ages. Griffin's approach combines close readings and comparisons of literary texts with readings informed by modern critical theories which are grounded in many of the ideas raised by medieval metamorphosis: the body, gender, identity and categories of life. Literary depictions and reworkings of transformation raise questions about medieval understandings of the differences between human and animal, man and woman, God and man, life and death—these are the questions explored in Transforming Tales.

How long is Transforming Tales?

Transforming Tales by Miranda Griffin is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Transforming Tales Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Transforming Tales aloud.

What Reading Level is Transforming Tales?

Transforming Tales is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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