Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative by Wendy B. Faris
Published 2004 · 115,000 words · about 10 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative to read?
Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative scores 65 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: 70 out of 100
- Theoretical literary vocabulary with philosophical and anthropological dimensions.
- Sentence structure: 63 out of 100
- Abstraction: 80 out of 100
- High theoretical framework-building throughout, applied to specific textual examples.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Dense with close reading, comparative analysis, and theoretical elaboration.
- Narrative indirection: 15 out of 100
- Direct scholarly argument organized around a systematic five-element theoretical framework.
- Symbolic density: 20 out of 100
- Analyses symbolic and mythic structures as central elements of the magical realist mode.
- Ironic distance: 14 out of 100
- Predominantly analytical tone; not an ironic text.
- Resolution withholding: 13 out of 100
- Each chapter concludes with clear analytical findings.
- Structural complexity: 44 out of 100
- Thematically organized around theoretical elements with consistent global comparative framework.
How Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative is regarded
Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative holds a literary regard score of 82 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.