Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy by Amaryll Chanady
Published 1985 · 198 pages · 65,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy to read?
Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy scores 60 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: 67 out of 100
- Narratological terminology is central; Todorov's framework requires familiarity with genre theory.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- The book operates at the level of narrative theory; its arguments concern structural properties of texts.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Concise but dense; a short book that packs considerable theoretical argument into every chapter.
- Narrative indirection: 14 out of 100
- Analytical and direct; the argument is stated clearly and then demonstrated.
- Symbolic density: 16 out of 100
- Symbolic analysis appears in readings of primary texts but is not the book's primary mode.
- Ironic distance: 13 out of 100
- Scholarly neutrality; limited ironic register throughout.
- Resolution withholding: 11 out of 100
- The distinction between modes is stated clearly and maintained throughout.
- Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
- Straightforward organization from theoretical framework to application to specific texts.
How Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy is regarded
Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy holds a literary regard score of 58 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.