The Object of Inquiry
Students are introduced to the practice of "Ekphrasis" to practice "reading" an image/photograph.
The Object of Inquiry
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) is best known for his 1872 poetic rendition of the Indian parable "The Blind Men and the Elephant." The gist of it is that unseeing individuals groping the same animal might come away with very different understandings of what it is, depending upon which part they grabbed: trunk, side, ear, tusk, tail, or knee (snake, wall, fan, spear, rope, tree, respectively). Here we will grapple with an online resource from the same period, Barnum and Jumbo's ABC, provided in IIIF as an object of inquiry.
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