How Long to Read Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century

How Long Does it Take to Read Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century by Susan Bernstein

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

Description

A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the nineteenth century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing upon an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Reading Romantic reactions to music together with linguistic and economic conflicts brought about by the rise of journalism, the book pursues the tension around performativity that both connects and separates music and writing. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire. The acclaimed virtuoso functions both as a metaphor for a musical mode of enunciation and as a historical referent. This dual status dramatizes the struggle at the heart of nineteenth-century aesthetics between poetic self-reference and realism’s efforts to report the world accurately. Debates surrounding Liszt pinpoint the conflict between the view that locates sense in the process of its production and the contrary judgment privileging a stable meaning over the exteriority of its execution. This dualism also articulates the problematic relationship of the individual to general social and linguistic structures. The book’s analyses of nineteenth-century theories of correspondence, along with the thematization of the “other arts,” point to the limitations of analogy, the impossibility of a general theory of art, and a crisis of identity—that is, a shared non-identity—that can be the only common property among different discourses, genres, and media. Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century offers a fresh reading of relatively marginal texts by canonical figures, addressing questions about the relation between the arts, the possibility of critical description, and the function of performativity.

How long is Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century?

Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century by Susan Bernstein is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century aloud.

What Reading Level is Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century?

Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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