Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction by Elemér Hankiss
Published 1985 · 85,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction to read?
Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction scores 68 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
- Structuralist and semiotic vocabulary requiring familiarity with the tradition.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Operates at a high level of formal and structural abstraction.
- Information density: 76 out of 100
- Highly compressed argument with sustained engagement with primary texts.
- Narrative indirection: 14 out of 100
- Direct theoretical argument.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Analytical throughout; structural relations are the subject.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Measured scholarly register.
- Resolution withholding: 16 out of 100
- The framework is provisional and open to elaboration.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Multi-level structural argument with interlocking analytical categories.
How Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction is regarded
Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction holds a literary regard score of 52 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.