Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
Published 2015 · 50,050 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune to read?
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune scores 64 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: 68 out of 100
- Political-theory vocabulary with French sources.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- The Commune read as a set of ideas rather than events.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Dense with nineteenth-century material.
How Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune is regarded
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune holds a literary regard score of 45 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.