How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time by Carolyn Dinshaw
Published 2012 · 69,025 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time to read?
How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time scores 70 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: 72 out of 100
- Queer theory and medieval studies vocabulary together.
- Sentence structure: 70 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Temporality treated abstractly across seven centuries.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Dense with medieval texts and modern theory.
How How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time is regarded
How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time holds a literary regard score of 49 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.