Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence by Roland Greene
Published 1991 · 305 pages · 90,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence to read?
Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence 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
- Sophisticated critical vocabulary; passages quoted in multiple European languages.
- Sentence structure: 63 out of 100
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- The concept of 'fictions' is applied at a high level of abstraction.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Comparative scope means each chapter integrates multiple national traditions.
- Narrative indirection: 18 out of 100
- Analytically structured; the subject is lyric but the method is systematic.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Analytical register throughout.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Measured critical tone.
- Resolution withholding: 18 out of 100
- The theoretical framework is resolved; the comparative picture remains open.
- Structural complexity: 43 out of 100
- Organized by national tradition within an overarching theoretical argument.
How Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence is regarded
Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence 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.