Reviews for Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance

The average rating for Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-05 00:00:00 Jaime Profit I really enjoyed Andrew Benjamin's (no relation; although I am sure that he is oft asked) commentary on the XIVth theses. "On the Concept of History" is assuming for me a role kin to what the "Emerald Tablet" assumed for the Medieval Alchemists.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-30 00:00:00 Kyle Harms A considered look into how students read texts on the eve of college/university level courses. I plan on using this in my AP Literature class next year as a primer into the course and to help develop student comprehension by making the act of read more explicit as a conscious act. Neil McCaw's 2nd edition divides into seven chapters: What type of reader are you right now?; Reading creatively; Reading texts closely, Reading biography, authors and readers; Reading genre and literary/cultural history; Reading social and political history; Reading philosophically; or, critical theory. In each chapter, McCaw provides concrete mini-lessons while also introducing semiotics and gradually building up to critical theory