/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15749980]

rate my college's freshman reading list

[Anonymous No.15749983]

cont.

[Anonymous No.15749988]

cont. again

[Anonymous No.15749997]

i read 2 books in my freshman year
one of them by Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.15750002]

>>15749980
its honestly not great

[Anonymous No.15750007]

Why was it typeset by a retard?

[Anonymous No.15750011]

>>15749980
Looks alright. Many level shit like 1984, though. Is this all that you have to read in a semester? Not familiar with the US system.

[Anonymous No.15750019]

>>15750011
entry level shit*

[Anonymous No.15750022]

1984 and The Great Gatsby are for High School students

[Anonymous No.15750036]

>>15749980
is this for high school or college? regardless, seems a little heavy for a semester’s worth of reading when coupled with 3-4 other classes, and papers for each book

[OP No.15750042]

>>15750011
this isn't necessarily what's taught in a term. it's the pre-reading to get a taste of the periods (at least i think so)

and yeah i snorted when i saw 1984 ngl. also no jane austen? that was a surprise if the list is supposed to be "essentials"

[OP No.15750049]

>>15750036
it's university. In the UK you only study one subject. I said college in the original post because my university is separated into colleges

[OP No.15750063]

>>15750022
its a shame they can't expect everyone to have read them before

[Anonymous No.15750072]

Where's the Black, POC, and Asian authors?
Yikes!

[Anonymous No.15750073]

>>15749980
Less Than Zero is an interesting inclusion. Seems a little out of place

[Anonymous No.15750079]

>>15749980
Honestly it looks like heaven. I wish I had studied this rather than computer shit. But then again I'm a 3rd worlder so I was fucked from the start. Good luck OP.

[Anonymous No.15750084]

All people are of a colour.

[Anonymous No.15750087]

>>15750049
Which uni mate?

Is that a whole year's worth of reading, or just suggested reading or something?

[Anonymous No.15750093]

thats a yikes from me
oof, sounds about white?
big time yikeroos

[Anonymous No.15750112]

>>15749980
>Bret Easton Ellis
>Angela Carter
Is this what anglo academia has become?

>>15750084
Speak for yourself, opaque incel

[OP No.15750115]

>>15750087
Oxford! and honestly i'm not too sure if it's just a term, the pre reading, or the whole year... i suppose i should probably find out

[Anonymous No.15750117]

>>15749980
Seems kind of light on POC and post modern bullshit.
Sad.

[OP No.15750119]

>>15750072
>tfw no the hate u give

[Anonymous No.15750125]

>>15750112
>Speak for yourself, opaque incel
I'm not white.

[OP No.15750131]

>>15750117
i was overjoyed to see crying of lot 49. seems the closest a stuffy old institution will ever get to postmodern, but good enough for me.

[Anonymous No.15750134]

>>15750115
I have never seen such extreme faggotry in a human on this site before
Enjoy your pyramid scheme

[OP No.15750140]

>>15750134
y-you too :,)

[Anonymous No.15750239]

>>15749980
I hope you’re taking a class that will teach you how to format a word doc

[Anonymous No.15750257]

>>15749980
A very strange list. The typesetting is epileptic, but I also don't understand why you would choose these books for freshman. It doesn't seem to be a cohesive syllabus at all. The first picture will be easy reading for you, with the exception of Woolf, whose books are a little bit trickier. The bottom picture is much better. Middlemarch is the consummate work of English literature, and I might start it earlier to give it the time and focus it deserves. I'm also pleasantly surprised to see Father and Son on there, which is a bit of a forgetten gem, at least in the states.

[Anonymous No.15750304]

>>15750140
Legit though, going to Oxford will be the height of your life, it will be your defining characteristic, it will supplant any personality you thought you had. It already has. You will be incapable of holding a conversation with anyone without mentioning your time at Oxford. You will take MDMA in an old hall, you will think it is the greatest experience of your life, maybe only tantamount to reading (generic poet’s) work. You will secretly hold a superiority complex over everyone you meet. You will get a high-class bureaucrat job for your friendly neighbourhood faceless corporation. You will have sex at Oxford. It will be disappointing. You will engage in the initiation ceremonies to esoteric societies, including but not limited to, crawling 200m naked on all fours across rough gravel, drinking shots out of a fish head, downing as many pints as you can and burning money in front of the homeless. I know these things to be true. I went to Oxford just like you and I knew a thousand individuals of such extreme faggotry. Your A-Level results will define you for the rest of your life. I hope you prove me wrong, for your own sake. This is a cautionary warning as too much auto-fellatio will leave you without a spine.
>Also, you have fallen for a scam.

[Anonymous No.15750305]

Freshmen are too busy getting laid to read all that garbage.
>american psycho
>women writers
Look at this pseud fag AHAHAH

[OP No.15750357]

>>15750257
the course in the first year is split into three units- old/middle english, 19th century, and 20th century.

as for the typsetting, i imagine it was done by some older professor who remembers when a "computer" was a person, and frankly i'm just proud they tried their best

[OP No.15750361]

>>15750304
you should turn this in as an entrance letter to oxbridge. they'd love how pretentious you sound

[Anonymous No.15750397]

https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/studium/download-studium/materialien/lektuereliste-anglistik.pdf
https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/studium/download-studium/materialien/lektuereliste-bachelor-amerikanistik.pdf

I'll just dump my reading list as well, 1st one ist for english lit, the second one is for american lit.

[Anonymous No.15750426]

>>15750361
Not really desu, if you think this is pretentious then you’re both retarded and in for a shock in 3 months

[Anonymous No.15750434]

>no vonnegut

[Anonymous No.15750437]

>>15749980
>J.M. Coetzee
>Kate Tempest
Holy shit literally drop out

[OP No.15750451]

>>15750426
which college were you at? sounds like you were in the bullingdon club

[Anonymous No.15750462]

i hear he’s an oggsford man

[Anonymous No.15750466]

>>15749980
Pretty decent but seems really limited even in terms of Western canon. Very establishment feel.

[Anonymous No.15750476]

ohh oxford... do you carry a briefcase?

[Anonymous No.15750477]

>>15750426
>>15750451
Yeah, I hate to say it, but this is what elite higher education is really like.

[Anonymous No.15750514]

>>15750397
With the exception of the Contemporary American Literature section, these lists are both very nice. The English one is excellent. The American travelogue and colonial literature is all pretty vapid, not really the same caliber as the other stuff.

[OP No.15750516]

>>15750476
i carry nothing except and inflated sense of self worth and daddy's wallet

[Anonymous No.15750537]

>>15749980
you dont give a shit about the ratings you wanted to flex Oxford on a literature board lmao SAD!

[Anonymous No.15750551]

>>15750397
Have one for German literature?

[OP No.15750564]

>>15750537
well then rate it and see what i say

[Anonymous No.15750581]

>>15749980
Really good. Be glad. No diversity, affirmative action authors. Soon, the curriculum will be nothing but novels written by black authors after 1991.

[Anonymous No.15750582]

>>15750551
https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/studium/downloads/lektuereliste-dtlit-ba.pdf

Here.

[OP No.15750589]

>>15750581
i was quite surprised given the Rhodes debacle

[Anonymous No.15750594]

>>15750582
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.15750611]

>>15750564
I think its a dated list that leaves out a lot of great lit from the past ~50 years and authors that are not from western Europe or the US

[OP No.15750638]

>>15750611
what would you recommend from the later canon? i haven't read much from the 80s onwards

[Anonymous No.15750682]

>>15750638
I was surprised to see that White Noise wasn't on that list, nor anything by DFW. Kazuo Ishiguro is a must (specifically the remains of the day, a near perfect UK book imo). Murakami is also fun to read and you can't go wrong with most of his stuff. Same goes for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Rudolfo Anaya (who died yesterday I think and wrote one of my all time favs, "Bless Me Ultima"). Currently reading The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes if you want something modern (2011) that touches on Uk academics, tho this is book is more Cambridge focused

[OP No.15750730]

>>15750682
thank you friend :,)
regarding DFW, i think he and similar authors get unfairly snubbed by academics. i noticed a distinct lack of experimental books on the list- pynchon comes closest but CL49 isn't all that weird compared to gravity's rainbow. Same with choosing dubliners by Joyce- it looks like they purposefully avoided the more experimental/ "inaccessible" works from those types of authors

[Anonymous No.15750753]

>I'm a big boy now! 1984? THAT'S FOR KIDS!

[Anonymous No.15750774]

>>15750730
I would agree with your point on DFW and experimental books in general. I went to a similar uni (hence my initial dick move post lmao) and they like to exist in this weird "we are contemporary and edgy sure but not actually". I mean they chose Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis !?!?!? What I find interesting is that my institution had a much bigger emphasis on diversity, almost to a fault, whereas the Oxford list appears pretty unapologetically white

[Anonymous No.15750945]

The books themselves are good but a lot of them probably should have been read in high school. What kinds of things did they expect you to have read in high school with these books as college freshman reading?

>Great Gatsby
>Brave New World
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Wuthering Heights
>Alice in Wonderland (though is something people might have read earlier than high school though)
>Dracula
>1984
>probably a lot of those poems or poem collections

All these (and probably more from this list) are either books I read in high school or I knew people who did read them in high school. With the above books being on there I'm surprised Lord of the Flies or Frankenstein aren't on there too.

[OP No.15750957]

>>15750945
agreed, but i guess they have to account for people who didn't really get into literature until recently and haven't has a chance. better late than never

[OP No.15750972]

>>15750774
so many people have commented on the whiteness of this list lol i dont really know what to make of it. obviously it's not intentional, but it seems kind of conspicuous in 2020

[Anonymous No.15751095]

Most cringe thread on lit I've seen in a while. OP is incredibly reddit. I hope you grow up at uni son. Although your current disposition is optimal for you're future environment. An environment I'd rather be shaking my cup for pennies on a street corner than be a part of.

[Anonymous No.15751596]

>>15750466
Anglo-center. Which is very appropriate for Oxford. There is nothing wrong with that.

[Anonymous No.15752030]

>>15749980
Word should be patched to delete itself when encountering two or more consecutive space characters.

[Anonymous No.15752110]

Rate mine

[Anonymous No.15752633]

>>15751596
Stupid cuckolded criticism

[Anonymous No.15753188]

>>15752110
You forgot to put the bible into “Other”.

[Anonymous No.15753898]

>>15752110
WHERE'S THE WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR! baka

[Anonymous No.15754441]

>>15749980
Looks pretty good but the most basic of basic
do they encourage independent reading? This would be quite a load for an easily distracted retard like me

[Anonymous No.15754524]

>>15750115
>Oxford
>gives you a 14 year old's summer reading list
Hope you're on a really good scholarship

[Anonymous No.15754534]

>>15750115
Congrats!

[Anonymous No.15754793]

>>15752110
Pretentious

[Anonymous No.15754822]

>>15749980
>>15749983
>>15749988
some of it is high school tier but mostly good. I assume this is an introductory English literature class?

[Anonymous No.15755290]

>>15752110
Do you know how I know you are an American?

[Anonymous No.15755323]

>>15752110
>Yes, I only read the easiest works of the most canonic authors in abridged translated versions with introductions that allow me to skip all harder parts. How could you tell?