![]() English classes at my school included works like Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Stranger, to name a few examples. Not everybody goes to college, or takes comparative lit if they do. There is certainly no requirement that all the works taught originally be written in English and I think it would shortchange kids to do so. However, in grade school, at least in the U.S., "English" is shorthand for "reading and writing" (or, for older kids, "literature and composition"). I don't think she is saying NOT to read any books in foreign languages.Īt the university level, "English literature" certainly means literature written in English, and probably from UK/English authors. class that were originally written in foreign languages I would think it odd. ![]() In short, I agree with Deb that if I were asked to read books in an English lit. That's why in high school we separate the junior and senior years into British and American literature-so we can get more specific. My minor is in Russian Education, and I completely agree that there is a lot to be learned in literature written in foreign languages and then translated into Russian, but one of the points of English lit classes is to teach the students about the literary history in their own language. My degree is in English Education, and the class should focus on works written in English, Middle English, or Old English-and in all of my classes they did. If I attended an English literature course and. How good the English is depends entirely on the translation. Antoine wrote: "Deb wrote: "Books that are translated from other languages are not English literature.
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