Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Published 2024 · 53,075 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Theory & Practice to read?
Theory & Practice scores 63 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
- Academic vocabulary inside the fiction.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Clear sentences that shift register between essay and story.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Theory and desire treated as the same problem.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Dense with critical material.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A narrator who keeps revealing the novel as a construction.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Woolf and the thesis carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Constant distance between theory and conduct.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- The contradictions are left standing.
- Structural complexity: 72 out of 100
- Fiction, memoir and criticism deliberately blurred.
How Theory & Practice is regarded
Theory & Practice holds a literary regard score of 42 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.