How Long to Read W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption

How Long Does it Take to Read W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption by Russell Kilbourn

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

Description

Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction—The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz—Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands between modernism's ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after. Out of the spectacle of humankind's slow-motion self-destruction, a "Sebaldian subject"—masculine, melancholic, ironic, potentially queer-emerges across the four prose narratives. Alongside Sebald studies' traditional subjects, which include memory, historiography, Sebald's critique of an image-based culture, and his highly intermedial poetics, W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption demonstrates Sebald's relevance for affect theory, new materialism, and the posthuman turn. It critiques the possibility of metaphysical or eroto-salvific models of redemption, arguing against the temptation of psychoanalytic interpretations, as Sebald's work of memory rejects the discourse of redemption in favor of restitution. In its consideration of Sebald's place in twentieth-century literature and after, Kilbourn's book engages with such predecessors as Nabokov, Kafka, Conrad, and Beckett, concluding with comparisons with contemporaries Claudio Magris and Alice Munro.

How long is W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption?

W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption by Russell Kilbourn is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption aloud.

What Reading Level is W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption?

W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption 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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