The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
Published 2012 · 179 pages · 49,225 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination to read?
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination scores 55 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: 58 out of 100
- Cultural-criticism vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Clear polemical sentences.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Personal witness raised to a theory of cultural loss.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Moderate.
How The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination is regarded
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination holds a literary regard score of 53 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.