How Long to Read Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare

How Long Does it Take to Read Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare by Jonathan Gil Harris

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

Description

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. He reveals that many "Renaissance" objects were actually survivals from an older time—the medieval monastic properties that, post-Reformation, were recycled as stage props in the public playhouses, or the old Roman walls of London, still visible in Shakespeare's time. Then, as now, old objects were inherited, recycled, repurposed; they were polytemporal or palimpsested. By treating matter as dynamic and temporally hybrid, Harris addresses objects in their futurity, not just in their encapsulation of the past. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare is a bold study that puts the matériel—the explosive, world-changing potential—back into a "material culture" that has been too often understood as inert stuff.

How long is Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare?

Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare by Jonathan Gil Harris is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare aloud.

What Reading Level is Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare?

Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare 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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