Coming of Age in Literature: Adolescence as a Theme in Fiction by Kenneth Millard
Published 2000 · 76,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Coming of Age in Literature: Adolescence as a Theme in Fiction to read?
Coming of Age in Literature: Adolescence as a Theme in Fiction scores 54 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 61 out of 100
- Accessible critical prose with careful signposting; aimed partly at undergraduate readers.
- Sentence structure: 54 out of 100
- Abstraction: 70 out of 100
- Balances theoretical claims about genre with close attention to specific novels.
- Information density: 74 out of 100
- Covers a large primary corpus efficiently while advancing a coherent argument about race and genre.
- Narrative indirection: 14 out of 100
- Argument is stated and supported directly without rhetorical indirection.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Discusses symbolic elements in source texts but does not argue through symbolism.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Measured scholarly tone; limited irony except when critiquing genre's universalist assumptions.
- Resolution withholding: 13 out of 100
- Each chapter ends with a clear summary claim.
- Structural complexity: 37 out of 100
- Chronological organization with thematic detours for race and gender chapters.
How Coming of Age in Literature: Adolescence as a Theme in Fiction is regarded
Coming of Age in Literature: Adolescence as a Theme in Fiction holds a literary regard score of 72 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.