Imagine your an English professor and teach a course on world literature. Which books would you have your students read?
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
Odyssey
Ramayana
Tale of Genji
Inferno (sections)
Paradise Loft (sections)
Middle eastern poetry (Rumi, Ibn, etc)
The Tempest
Don't know what I would teach from the modern period.
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>>7867224
the book of mormon
the florentine codex
julius evola
liang qichao
mishima
>>7867244
>a post on 4chan
>it has a thing in it meant to piss u off as bait
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>>7867224
world lit as in non-American?
if so stuff like
Osamu Dazai or Murakami
Frantz Fanon's wretched earth
Life of Pi was Canadian right? lmao
Chekhov, Kafka
Family Matters by Mistry (might be too long for a lit course)
>>7867334
ok b8 7/8
>>7867244
I agree, but since I started posting on my phone I realize this shit sometimes auto corrects itself into place.
>>7867258
Sign me up.
>>7867224
Definitely not lysolnigger lit, Jesus facking Christ. It's no wonder they never advanced beyond a mesolithic level of development.
Dao De Jing
Zhuangzi
Lotus Sutra
Heart Sutra
Diamond Sutra
Dhammapada
Upanishads
Baghavad Gita
Genesis
Job
Ecclesiastes
Gospel of John
Iliad
Theogeny
Metamorphoses
The Golden Ass
Paradise Lost
Iliad/Odyssey (Fitzgerald)
Beowulf
Caedmons Hymn
Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare
Joyce
Keats
Aristotle Poetics
The Oresteia
Book of Job
Tale of the Heike (selections)
Don Quixote (Book 2)
King Lear
The Scarlet Letter
Madame Bovary
The Metamorphosis
Centered around tragedy
>>7867239
>Paradise Loft
Sounds comfy.
Gravity's Rainbow
Illuminatus!
Valis
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The King James Bible
>>7867224
Just Plato's Republic all semester.
I guess I could do a post-mid term short on the Tao but that would be about it.
>>7867224
World literature is bullshit, pure historicism with no depth of analysis; you need to do short, specialized courses for people who actually care about a topic.
For example, I have this course planned out in my head about representations of the literary and/or academic lifestyle in 20th century English-language novels:
>Gissing, New Grub Street
>Williams, Stoner
>Beckett, Herzog
>Nabokov, Pnin
>Roth, The Human Stain
If it wasn't English-language I'd love to include Auto-de-fe.
>>7867490
>world lit
I'd prefer teaching 20th Century Modernist literature, so:
Edouard Dujardin - We'll to the Woods no More
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
James Joyce - Ulysses
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Hermann Broch - The Sleepwalkers
Heinrich Boll - Billiards at Half-Past Seven
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
Andrei Bely - Petersburg
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear it Away
Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain (arguable)
Wole Soyinka - The Interpreters (arguable)
>>7867911
can't teach that shit in ONE FUCKING SEM
You'll agree this should cover about everything :^)
The /lit/ course
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
The Stranger
Ficciones
Siddhartha
The Divine Comedy
The Book of Disquiet
No Longer Human
Hunger
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
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The Book of Disquiet
The Recognitions
Ulysses
Brothers Karamazov
Meme approved
The Iliad
The Canterbury Tales
The Upanishads
The Zhuangzhi
Leaves of Grass
>>7867259
> fucks up because OP is an ignorant amerifat who didn't even learn to spell from watching Sesame Street
> tries to claim it was b8
> fails
Diderot
Lautreamont
Pirandello
Hauptmann
Bellow
Tournier
>only one person puts anything from the Middle East
World Literature. Regardless of what one might think of it, The 1001 Nights is an absolute necessity. A few of the great Persian poets too, they were also a heavy influence on the European Romantics. One of Hafez, Saadi or 'Attam. And if you're covering ancient world literature then Gilgamesh or the Shahnameh are essential.
>>7867239
Good choice on Shakespeare.
If I were to run a class like this I'd style it as a survey class of English literature around the world
I'd like to cover:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by Joyce (Irish)
Weep Not, Child, by Thiong'o (Kenyan)
A Small Place, by Kincaid (Antiguan)
The Circle Game, by Atwood (Canadian)
The Tempest, by Shakespeare (English)This is perfect for the following reasons: it includes novels, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, thereby representing many genres of English literature; it includes representations from people of colour INCLUDING a woman of colour; The Joyce and the Thiong'o tie in nicely together for reasons I can get into if pressed; the Shakespeare may seem like an odd fit spatial-temporally given the rest of the material but since colonialism is obviously going to be a huge talking point in this class we can't not talk about Caliban
I can smell tenure already.
>>7867889
>English professor
So anything that isn't Western literature? That would mean exuding all literature written past the 19th century wouldn't it?
The Upsilonishads
Rumi
Dream of Red Chamber
Mushashis book of rings
Egyptian book of the dead
Gilgamesh
>>7868554
ew, really? why do people like the tempest so much? it's weak as fuck.
>Twenty consciences,
>That stand ’twixt me and Milan, candied be they
>And melt ere they molest!
To Kill a Mockingbird
Things Fall Apart
Beloved
Between the World and Me
Dreams from my Father
The Diary of Anne Frank
Das Kapital
>>7867478
I would second having some biblical texts.
The Torah
The Gospels + Acts
The Iliad (Fagles)
Confessions by Rousseau
Faust by Goethe
Henry IV Part 1 & King Lear
Hunger by Hamsun
Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Tolstoy
The Overcoat & The Portrait by Gogol
>>7868856
Blast of Tempest made me appreciate it.
>>7868791
>Thiong'o
I've never heard of her before. Could you say a bit more about her?
