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admittedly if i signed up to learn about historical literature and instead of reading the books themselves i had to read about the books and about communist pirates i would feel a little lied to
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The novel is a pretty recent Western invention
Not true. Chinese were printing 1000+ page novels when Euros still thought putting up few rhymes is height of literature.
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I don't think that's fair either since the Satyricon and Apuleius' Golden Ass are also much older. There were also a bunch of novels written in the medieval period that eventually evolved into the modern through things like Gargantua and Don Quixote, which is what I think ends up confusing people.
Yeah, considering that chinese novels were basically unknown in the west till really XX century and west developed that genre independently, it would be fair.
oh i know, but you expect to be mostly reading stories when you sign up for a class like that, maybe spend a week on some other stuff but mostly novels or short stories
Huh, at university level I would expect mostly articles and discussion about the literature, you'd be reading the literature in your own time (if you wanted, they'd give you excerpts for the tutorials if necessary). I imagine sitting around a table while a grad student tries to coax answers about why this historian's interpretation of Chaucer is good or bad.
Idk about the communist pirates though, personally I think lectures are bad and classes should be small enough to adopt a more conversational tone.
What are these books on communist pirates
i don't know, ask grover furr