How Long to Read Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor

How Long Does it Take to Read Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor by J. Douglas Porteous

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A landscape is a visual perception, the way in which we experience our environment through our eyes. In this provocative book Douglas Porteous ventures far beyond the visual into the myriad other sensory and existential perceptions -- otherscapes -- through which we encounter the worlds around and within us. Part I, Sensuous Worlds, investigates and celebrates the problems and joys of Smellscape and Soundscape. These interpretations accumulate in the pivotal essay on Bodyscape. Part II, Landscapes of Metaphor, delves more deeply into the existential landscape antinomies of human life: body (Bodyscape), vs mind (Inscape); home (Homescape) vs. travel (Escape); and, mirroring the sequence of urbanization, rural childhood (Childscape) vs. urban Adulthood (Deathscape). Rarely considered as an interconnected sequence, these 'scape studies serve to illuminate, interpret, and critique the human condition in that we are pleased to call Western 'civilization.' Porteous draws from a remarkably wide array of sources -- the modern novel (particularly the works of Graham Greene and Malcolm Lowry), poetry, travel literature, geography, psychology, urban design, and environmental aesthetics -- and adds specially commissioned line-drawings by Ole Heggen. The result is an extraordinary work, interdisciplinary in scope, non-technical in language, written with authority and passion.

How long is Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor?

Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor by J. Douglas Porteous is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor aloud.

What Reading Level is Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor?

Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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