How Long to Read We Are What We Mourn

How Long Does it Take to Read We Are What We Mourn?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 24 minutes to read We Are What We Mourn by Priscila Uppal

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

Description

Why are so many contemporary poets writing elegies? Given a century shaped by two world wars, vast population displacements, and shifting attitudes towards aging and death, is the elegy form adaptable to the changing needs of writers and audiences? In a sceptical age, where can consolation be found? In We Are What We Mourn Priscila Uppal examines why and how the work of mourning has drastically changed in the latter half of the twentieth century, focusing on the strong pattern in contemporary English-Canadian elegy that emphasizes connection rather than separation between the living and the dead. Uppal offers a penetrating reading of Canadian elegies that radically challenges English and American elegy traditions as well as long-standing psychological models for successful mourning. She sets up useful categories for elegy study - parental elegies, elegies for places, and elegies for cultural losses and displacements - and suggests where elegy and mourning studies might be headed post 9/11. The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy, We Are What We Mourn challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning and will intrigue anyone interested in how mourning shapes cultural identity.

How long is We Are What We Mourn?

We Are What We Mourn by Priscila Uppal is 322 pages long, and a total of 81,144 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read We Are What We Mourn Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 23 minutes to read We Are What We Mourn aloud.

What Reading Level is We Are What We Mourn?

We Are What We Mourn is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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