How Long to Read Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art

How Long Does it Take to Read Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art by M. Owen Lee

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

Description

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful? Why is the art of Richard Wagner, a very imperfect man, important and even indispensable to us? In this volume, Father Owen Lee ventures an answer to those questions by way of a figure in Sophocles – the hero Philoctetes. Gifted by his god with a bow that would always shoot true to the mark and indispensable to his fellow Greeks, he was marked by the same god with an odious wound that made him hateful and hated. Sophocles' powerful insight is that those blessed by the gods and indispensable to men are visited as well with great vulnerability and suffering. Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art traces some of Wagner's extraordinary influence for good and ill on a century of art and politics – on Eliot and Proust as well as on Adolf Hitler – and discusses in detail Wagner's Tannhouser, the work in which the composer first dramatised the Faustian struggle of a creative artist in whom 'two souls dwell.' In the course of this penetrating study, Father Lee argues that Wagner's ambivalent art is indispensable to us, life-enhancing and ultimately healing.

How long is Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art?

Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art by M. Owen Lee is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art aloud.

What Reading Level is Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art?

Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art is suitable for students ages 10 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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