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Landscapes of the Mind : Worlds of Sense and Metaphor / J. Douglas Porteous.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porteous, J. Douglas, author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lowry, Malcolm.
- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Criticism and interpretation.
- Greene, Graham.
- Human geography--Philosophy.
- Human geography.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Landscapes; I SENSUOUS WORLDS; 2 Smellscape; 3 Soundscape; II LANDSCAPES OF METAPHOR; 4 Bodyscape; 5 Inscape; 6 Homescape; 7 Escape; 8 Childscape; 9 Deathscape; 10 Otherscapes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Reprinted in 2018.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-7954-3
- OCLC:
- 1114890461
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