College Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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LARTS 393 — Culture 20223 credits
Spring
Anthony Lioi
Prerequisite: LARTS 112
The year 1922 was a watershed for literary modernism, witnessing the publication of major works by T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Thus, the course of modernism and the practice of anthropology were intertwined using the concept of “culture:” both “the best which has been thought and said” and “the everyday lifeways of a people.” Beginning with Victorian anthropology, this course will trace the rise of the culture concept through classic modernist works by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Hurston, Auden, and Brooks. It will then examine what became of “culture” in our own time using contemporary anthropology and art to understand the legacy of modernism today.
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