Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
Published 1992 · 363 pages · 99,825 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative to read?
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative 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: 72 out of 100
- Narratological and psychoanalytic vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 70 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Plot treated as a structure of desire.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense with close readings and theory together.
How Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative is regarded
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative holds a literary regard score of 64 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.