Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction by Peter Hollindale
Published 1997 · 62,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction to read?
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction scores 62 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: 62 out of 100
- Accessible academic prose with clearly defined ideological and critical theory terminology.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Abstraction: 73 out of 100
- The concept of childness requires sustained theoretical elaboration across multiple chapters.
- Information density: 71 out of 100
- Theoretical framework applied across many different genres and periods generates dense comparative analysis.
- Narrative indirection: 16 out of 100
- Hollindale often illustrates ideological dynamics through close reading before naming the principle.
- Symbolic density: 14 out of 100
- Childness itself functions as a theoretical symbol for the mediation between adult and child culture.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- The critical distance required to read ideology implies but does not deploy irony rhetorically.
- Resolution withholding: 13 out of 100
- Ideological analysis concludes with diagnostic clarity in each chapter.
- Structural complexity: 36 out of 100
- Framework chapters followed by genre-specific applications in a systematic argument.
How Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction is regarded
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent 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.