How Long to Read Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman

How Long Does it Take to Read Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman by Louise Schleiner

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

Description

"In Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman, author Louise Schleiner uses concepts from A. J. Greimas to analyze The Shepheardes Calender (1579) as a discourse and as a definitive text for the Elizabethan "political unconscious," in the sense of Fredric Jameson, who also drew on Greimas. The book demonstrates sociolinguistic patterns at work in Elizabethan ideological conflicts, at a level that shows how those patterns were related to the energies of people's sexuality and their political and religious commitments. Through explaining this libidinal and political functioning of the Calender, in its time and for Spenser as a new poet, the book identifies an "ideologeme," widely observable in England of the 1580s and 1590s: that of the captive/capturing woman, a unit of interfactional and interclass discourse." "As well as discussing Spenser, two chapters include examples from music and balladry and use the "captive woman" construct to analyze material from such figures as Lyly, Shakespeare, the composer John Dowland, the Countess of Pembroke, and Queen Elizabeth I. A concluding chapter on the Calender's proferred text-readership game shows Spenser evolving his ordering of the twelve eclogues through inventing a strategic frame for them, an implied story that both celebrates and leaves behind his passionate friendship with Gabriel Harvey."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

How long is Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman?

Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman by Louise Schleiner is 286 pages long, and a total of 73,216 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman aloud.

What Reading Level is Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman?

Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman 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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