• Cromalin [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    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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      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        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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          • kot
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          • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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            9 months ago

            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.

      • Cromalin [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        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

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          9 months ago

          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.