How Long to Read Tropes, Parables, and Performatives

How Long Does it Take to Read Tropes, Parables, and Performatives?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Tropes, Parables, and Performatives by J. Hillis Miller

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

Description

Tropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Miller’s essays on seven major twentieth-century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy, and Conrad. For all their evident differences, these essays from early to late explore a single intuition about literature, which may be framed by three words: “trope,” “parable,” and “performative.” Throughout these essays Miller is fascinated with the tropological dimension of literary language, with the way figures of speech turn aside the telling of a story or the presentation of a literary theme. The exploration of this turning leads to the recognition that all works of literature are parabolic, “thrown beside” their real meaning. They tell one story but call forth something else. Miller further agrees that all parables are fundamentally performative. They do not merely name something or give knowledge, but rather use words to make something happen, to get the reader from here to there. Each essay here attempts to formulate what, in a given case, the reader perfomatively enters by way of parabolic trope.

How long is Tropes, Parables, and Performatives?

Tropes, Parables, and Performatives by J. Hillis Miller is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tropes, Parables, and Performatives Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Tropes, Parables, and Performatives aloud.

What Reading Level is Tropes, Parables, and Performatives?

Tropes, Parables, and Performatives 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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