/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3805872]

What is that book teached in your country during middle or high-school?

Italy: I promessi sposi.

[Sam No.3805877]

To Kill A Mockingbird (England)

Captcha: coolxam 1:5

It is most certainly not a cool exam

[Anonymous No.3805887]

We study Shakespeare from age 10 to 18 in England.

[Anonymous No.3805893]

I'm not sure, might have been The Red Room by August Strindberg. It was so long ago, I'm not sure if it was the case. It is certainly a culturally significant book in Sweden.

[Anonymous No.3805904]

The United States

Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Red Badge of Courage
The Cather in The Rye

These also go a lot for early high school.

[Anonymous No.3805916]

Canada, but the province of Quebec so the french part.

Albert Camus - La Peste
Émile Nelligan - Poésies.
Jean Barbe - Comment devenir un monstre.
Marguerite Duras - Moderato Cantabile.

[Anonymous No.3805944]

Maybe we could turn this thread into a long-overdue discussion of how FUCKING GOOD I Promessi Sposi actually is.
I'm not Italian but I've known a lot of Italians so I"m familiar with the inevitable groan and upturned eyes of anyone forced to read it in middle school. What with its status as part of the curriculum and Manzoni's obvious Roman Catholic commitment, its easy above all for Italians to dismiss it as conservative-reactionary trash.
I was amazed, however, when I read it to see how a book written in the early 19th Century and set in the 17th anticipated ideas that really only became current after the 1960s and the New Left.
The long "novel within a novel" about "the Nun of Monza" is a horrifying, fascinating portrait of how a human will and soul can be manipulated and controlled without overt violence - a marvelous lesson in "ideology" and the creation of "false consciousness".
And on the question of violence itself, it is amazing to see that the Catholic Manzoni understood as well as Marx or Mao Zedong that "the violence of the oppressed" is really not the random destruction that it appears, but a response to the subtler, almost invisible "violence of the oppressor":

"In the midst of this turmoil, we cannot stop to make reflections; but Renzo, causing disturbance at night in another person's house, and holding the master of it besieged in an inner room, has all the appearance of an oppressor; when in fact he was the oppressed. Don Abbondio, assaulted in his own house, while he was tranquilly attending to his affairs, appeared the victim; when, in fact, it was he who had inflicted the injury. Thus goes the world, or rather, thus it went in the seventeenth century."

Difficult to credit that THAT was written in 1827 - by a Roman Catholic propagandist!

[Anonymous No.3806084]

>>3805872
British Columbia, Canada
>Lord of thr Flies
>Of Mice and Men
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Dorian Gray
>Lots of Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.3806116]

>>3805887
>mfw we have to study R+J fucking 4 times

The pain.

[Anonymous No.3806120]

>>3805904

Just to add:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Montana 1945
Lord Of The Flies
Stuck in Neutral

[Anonymous No.3806121]

>>3805916
Classy

[Anonymous No.3806137]

Syllabus thread?
Syllabus thread.

GCSE: TKAMB/ R+J/ A Christmas Carol/ Carol Ann Duffy

AS: American Gods/ The Call of Cthulhu/ Rossetti/ Tess of the D'Urbervilles/ Wide Sargasso Sea

A2: Ariel/ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall/ A Room of One's Own/ Othello/ The Duchess of Malfi/ Donne's erotic poetry

[Anonymous No.3806141]

The Netherlands

[Anonymous No.3806163]

>>3806137
>Carol Ann Duffy

Man, I hated this bitch.

[Anonymous No.3806166]

>>3806137
Oh, and Streetcar at GCSE.

[Anonymous No.3806170]

>>3806163
I still can't believe that shitstorm about that stabbing poem she wrote. Fuck me.

[Anonymous No.3806176]

>>3806163
The World's Wife is bretty gud. It's terribly feministically pandering, though.

[Anonymous No.3806177]

UK
15-16: Lord of the Flies, The Merchant of Venice, various war poetry, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls

17-18: The Tempest, Hamlet, The Cantebury Tales, Frankenstein, Beloved, Renains of the Day, Paradise Lost. We also did a load of other gothic genre reading for our synoptic exam at 18.

[Anonymous No.3806181]

>>3806177
oh and stuff like Paradise Regained, The Discarded Image etc. for Paradise Lost.

[Anonymous No.3806185]

>>3806177
Which Tales did you do?

[Anonymous No.3806226]

>>3805872
>implying no divine comedy for three years

[Anonymous No.3806243]

Spain (me):

-Some books of foreign literature.
-A few Legends of Bécquer.
-La vida es sueño (not even obligatory).

Other cases that I know:

-Platero y yo.
-El árbol de la ciencia.

And that's all.

[Anonymous No.3806415]

>>3806185
just The Franklin's Tale and Prologue but read the rest anyway for context. Found Chaucer waaaay more interesting than Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.3806566]

>>3805872
Nashville, TN
middle school (ages 12-14): it was all short fiction until the last year, we studied To Kill A Mockingbird. (was surprised to see it on >>3805877's curriculum, i thought Am Lit was scorned in the UK and Eur)

high school (through age 18)
9th grade:
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse 5
Romeo and Juliette
10th grade:
Brave New World
Antigone
A Man For All Seasons
Scarlet Ibis
11th grade:
Walden
As I Lay Dying
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Scarlet Letter
Huck Finn
12th Grade:
Beowulf
12th Night
Canterbury Tales

I'm forgetting many things, I'm sure. I read Connecticut Yankee sometime in there, but maybe for fun? Also, the high school load doesn't really reflect most nashville/US schools, it was an academic magnet.

[Anonymous No.3806591]

>>3806566
forgot The Pearl and Of Mice And Men, that was freshman year.

[Anonymous No.3806699]

>>3806226
Three years? The fuck?

>>3806243
I went to school in Granada, we had to study Cervantes

[Anonymous No.3806727]

Rural Alabama here. I'll list what I can recall.

Romeo & Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
Antigone
Animal Farm
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
The Pearl
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (my selection for the literary research paper)
The Glass Menagerie
Our Town
A Raisin in the Sun

The focus was more on plays and short stories (e.g. London's To Build a Fire, Toudouze's Three Skeleton Key) with roughly one novel per year. In a class of twenty, I think five actually read the material.

[Anonymous No.3806748]

>>3806566
>mfw canterbury tales during my senior year taught by Mrs. Mangina

[Anonymous No.3806752]

>>3806727
West Alabamafag here, we didn't even do that much. I envy you.

[Anonymous No.3806757]

>>3806748
Which Tale did you do?

[Anonymous No.3806768]

Ones I loved/liked:
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
Catcher in the Rye
The Odyssey
A House on Mango Street
Julius Ceasar

I started crying in class during Hamlet, haha. in my defense I was deeply depressed at the time.
I read lots of great poems and stories in the lit book too, ones my dumb teacher skipped

[Anonymous No.3806772]

>>3806768
I really don't get the love for Hamlet. I wasn't a particular fan of Macbeth, either.

Rieu's translation is boring as shit.

[Anonymous No.3806790]

>>3806772
Dat part in Hamlet when he's like,
what a piece of work is man, how noble in form, in faculties how infinite.....[...] then, man delights not
me.
Poorly rendered here by me, of course. But that part cued the tears.
Macbeth is shit

[Anonymous No.3806813]

>>3806790
IMO, The Duchess of Malfi is the best Renaissance tragedy.

[Anonymous No.3806849]

>>3806813
Hmm I haven't read it

[Anonymous No.3806952]

>>3806163

Lol we got her and had to study this fucking holocaust poem of hers. Fuck that.

We also got
Shakespeare (Twelth Night, Othello, Macbeth)
Friedrich - a novel about some German kid who befriended a Jewish boy in 30s Germany. Predictable as fuck.
The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.3806958]

Canada:
9th Grade:
Cue For Treason (sucks)

10th Grade
Romeo And Juliet
Of Mice And Men
The Pearl

11th Grade
Macbeth
Brave New World
Your Choice Of Two Of The Following: Frankenstein, 1984, Catcher In The Rye, Fahrenheit 451, War of The Worlds, In The Heat Of The Night

12th Grade:
Law Of Dreams
King Lear or Hamlet
Two Novels Completely Of Your Choice For A Major Comparative Essay And Public Presentation On Said Comparison

[Anonymous No.3806978]

[Anonymous No.3806990]

9th grade: Anthem, Metamorphosis, Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Prince, The Glass Menagerie. (There might have been more)
10th grade: The Crucible, Jungle, Slaughterhouse V, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
There are many more. I can't remember...

[Anonymous No.3806994]

>>3806990
Of Mice and Men, I forgot that one

[Anonymous No.3806997]

In Ireland for secondary school I had to study:

Goodnight Mister Tom
The Cay
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
To Kill a Mockingbird
How Many Miles to Babylon
Lies of Silence
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Merchant Of Venice
The Tempest
Macbeth

[Anonymous No.3807002]

>>3806990
Also forgot to Kill a Mockingbird

[Anonymous No.3807005]

>>3806990
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, forgot that, too.

[Anonymous No.3807006]

>>3806997
that's excluding the immense amount of poetry and short stories that were thrown at us.

[Anonymous No.3807010]

>>3805872
Off the top off my head:

Night by Elier Weasel
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Lord of the Flies
Oedipus
Rice Without Rain

[Anonymous No.3807021]

>>3806990
The Scarlet Letter. My memory is getting better..

[Anonymous No.3807041]

>>3806990
>>3806994
>>3807002
>>3807005
>>3807021
Jesus Christ man, what school was this? Are you including the entire year or just english class?

[Anonymous No.3807060]

>>3807041
I live in Michigan. This was for my ninth and tenth grade year in my History and Literature class. My teachers were very good. My history teacher felt that it was more important to be able to read and analyze than to know dates and facts (we learned those, too).

[Anonymous No.3807066]

>>3807060
By literature I mean the standard English class (I do not want it to appear to be more than it is)

[Anonymous No.3807065]

Everyone seems to read The Great Gatsby in high school, even in my parent's generation. Huckleberry Finn has some unnecessary controversy, but I was educated in a private school, and we read everything. A lot of distopian novels were read: Brave new world, 1984, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, just to name a few.

[Anonymous No.3807083]

>>3806990
Oh, and A Raisin in the Sun. (still in 9th and 10th grade)

[Anonymous No.3807090]

I took a history class about half way through High School that was supposedly 'college level.' We read Voltaire, Machiavelli, and a few pieces of 17th century British law. This was in the U.S. The reads were pretty heavy for the age; we never discussed anything in class and had to write an essay about our thoughts. The class was lecture style.

[Anonymous No.3807100]

In Russia, teachers begin to introduce us to literature in 4th grade through the language course, and then it morphs into an actual subject the next year. We only stop studying prose/poetry in the third or fourth semester of university. As you can imagine, the Russian educational system offers a wide array of choices which expands over the course of over eight years. We are able to cover all the names of our local literature, and thereupon we venture into the analysis of foreign books.

[Anonymous No.3807123]

Most of the US ones have been mentioned, but we read The House on Mango Street, Black Boy and Invisible Man for cultural enrichment

[Anonymous No.3807134]

>>3806990
Metamorphosis in 9th grade?? what the hell?

[Anonymous No.3807137]

>>3807134
It was an okay book. Wasn't a hard read. Why do you say that?

[Anonymous No.3807154]

>>3807137
Seems like it would be difficult to teach. I found Kafka complex as a 19 year old

[Anonymous No.3807158]

Brazil:

Barren Lives
Luzia-Homem

These are actually the only ones I remember, but there was a bunch of them, all Brazilian lit. I didn't read most of them and I hated most of the ones I did read, but not as much as I hated the teachers and their "lectures." Good thing the only requisite for graduating high school in Brazil is not killing yourself until graduation.

[Anonymous No.3807235]

I'm glad this thread is here, I am probably going to uni in the UK this fall and I had an unsatisfactory education and would like to make sure I have covered the essentials there.

Grade 9: To Kill A Mockingbird, Macbeth
Grade 10: R+J, Lord of the Flies
Grade 11: Of Mice and Men, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes
Strangely WCW was in our book too but we never talked about him.
Grade 12: Took a non-literature alternative here. Would have taken Shakespeare.

I might be forgetting 1-2 books but yeah, this was it. Good thing I read for a couple years on my own after graduating, I probably would have barely known who Homer was.

[Anonymous No.3807981]

>>3805872
In Sweden it's the book
>Ondskan
and it's about a high school where bullying happens

[Anonymous No.3808004]

>>3807235
Just make sure you're caught up on your Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, and maybe Milton and Donne. Most comprehensive schools in Britain are shite, so I doubt the others will have any advantage over you anyway.

[Anonymous No.3808030]

>>3807981
False. In Sweden they only read Berts universum in school.

- Finn

[Anonymous No.3808034]

High School Freshman Year
-The Most Dangerous Game
-Animal Farm
-A Midsummer's Night Dream
-The Pearl
-The Cask of Amontillado
-House on Mango Street
Sophomore Year
-A Separate Peace
-Pride & Prejudice
-Things Fall Apart
-Julius Caesar
Junior Year
-Of Mice & Men
-Rome & Juliet
-Raisin in the Sun
-The Great Gatsby
-The Crucible
Senior Year
-Othello
-The Pendulum
-Troy
Some others, can't remember. I know other people in my school read Lord of the Flies, Guns, Germs and Steel, and Dante's Inferno. There was a lot of african-american literature taught, as I went to school right outside of DC (PG County).

[Anonymous No.3808055]

9th: To Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Ceaser

10th: Siddhartha, Things Fall Apart, Merchant of Venice, Robert Frost

11th: Travels With Charlie, A Walk in the Woods, Scarlett Letter, The Sun Also Rises, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, The Tempest

12th: Hamlet, Death of Ivan Illytch, Maus 1 and 2, Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange, Animal Farm, Brave New World.

Syllabus from my American boarding school

[Anonymous No.3808075]

>>3808055
Also The Metamorphosis, Raisin in the Sun, various poetry, various short stories, and more I'm forgetting but I will probably recall later