How Long to Read Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

How Long Does it Take to Read Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 16 minutes to read Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by Gaye Rowley

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

Description

Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, which was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text The Tale of Genji. Akiko herself felt that Genji was the bedrock upon which her entire literary career was built, and her bibliography shows a steadily increasing amount of time devoted to projects related to the tale. This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko’s involvement with The Tale of Genji. The Tale of Genji provided Akiko with her conception of herself as a writer and inspired many of her most significant literary projects. She, in turn, refurbished the tale as a modern novel, pioneered some of the most promising avenues of modern academic research on Genji, and, to a great extent, gave the text the prominence it now enjoys as a translated classic. Through Akiko’s work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel. In delineating this important aspect of Akiko’s life and her bibliography, this study aims to show that facile descriptions of Akiko as a “poetess of passion” or “new woman” will no longer suffice.

How long is Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji?

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by Gaye Rowley is 253 pages long, and a total of 64,009 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji aloud.

What Reading Level is Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji?

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji 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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