What is the relevance of Birkerts for our work in this course? What can you take away from his essay regarding the reading and research that you will be doing?
1, Birkerts begins by linking reading (at least the comprehension part) and thinking as both being invisible activities, but he sees the connections as going well beyond this superficial observation. He argues that the way we read is related to the way we think about the world. Using metaphors of time (deep vs momentary) and […]