How Long to Read Portrait

How Long Does it Take to Read Portrait?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Portrait by Jean-Luc Nancy

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

Description

This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws. The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written...

How long is Portrait?

Portrait by Jean-Luc Nancy is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Portrait Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Portrait aloud.

What Reading Level is Portrait?

Portrait is suitable for students ages 10 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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