HUMA 14000 - Reading Cultures:Collection

Institution:

University of Chicago

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Description:

This quarter focuses on the way both objects and stories are selected and rearranged to produce cultural identities. We examine exhibition practices of the past and present, including the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the University' s own Oriental Institute. Some of the texts we read includ e Ovid ? Metamorphoses, The Arabian Night s, and collections of African American folktales. We conclude by considering modernist modes of fragmentation and reconstellation in Cubism, T. S. Eliot 's The Waste La nd, and fil

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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