That's typical of English 101 and 100 level English courses. The goal of the class isn't to study literature, the goal of the class is to make sure you can read something and write a paper on what you read. That's why teachers have such liberty in choosing the reading for the class. You should've taken a specific course, not just an English course.
Also did you really expect every single English course to adhere to the list of books we've ranked as good? Come on.
the garden party and the sisters were curriculum when I took lit a few years back.
they're not bad.
Everybody post a screen from lit syllabus at your current/former uni.
pic related university of oslo
It's Brit Lit, of course your syllabus is going to have God-tier literature. Too bad you aren't reading Swift or Locke.
Mine is almost identical. Danish btw
I didn't expect it to adhere to a list of books Veeky Forums regards as good.
What I did expect was works chosen due to their literary merits, not because they're agenda driven.
I love Joyce, but honestly I suspect he's on it solely because he's our greatest writer and as such it'd be completely retarded if he wasn't on it in some shape or form.
Read Althusser's 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses'.
Somehow I have a feeling you aren't too thrilled with Marxist writers, though, and this is a thinly veiled 'lol niggers and women sucks haha'-thread
Althusser is god tier.
I used his theory on interpellation a lot in my MA thesis.
>Althusser
Disregard all 20th century French hacks.
fuck off, saussure and althusser are legit.