SHAKESPEARE, DANTE and CERV-nein, nein! GOETHE

>>8274480
Ovid, Shakespeare Dante

shakespeare dante and goethe

schelling was right

>>8274492
>Ovid
oh ja, he isn't quite as ancient as Quintus Ennius or Plautus!

Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace

>>8274509
Didn't he invent a Renaissance English of his own because he didn't like the savage language of that bawdy Ipswich vintner?

Cervantes, Dante, and Chaucer.

Shakespeare, although a giant of literature, lacks historical importance in comparison to these three. Think about it. Ceevantes, dante, and chaucer are credited with being key with the transformation/advancement of their respective languages.

>>8274517
Wallace is a good choice. I should be immortal because i'm never going to read that shit.

Shakespeare, Ibsen and Hemingway

>>8274636
So is Shakespeare.

>>8274723
The language he wrote in was pioneered in Morte d'Arthur and confirmed by the book of common prayer.

Joyce, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky

Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

>>8274480

Kierkegaard Shakespeare, Goethe.

Actually Kierkegaard, Hamsun and Strindberg, nordic master race

>>8275688

What makes you think Kierkegaard is so important?

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickens. Pretty self-explanatory and I think the read something by all three of them in secondary school.

>>8274480

Why did he limit himself to three?

Balzac, Shakespeare, Proust.

Homer, Plato, Aristotle

>>8275709
Post ancient.

>>8274636
>>8274723
While I would be tempted to leave Chaucer in, if it's the historical importance with respect to the establishing of the language you're looking for, Spenser should replace, though it would wound me to do so.

Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Dante.

>>8275694
This post is objectively true. If teaching an Anglo centric curriculum, these three will help the students to understand the historical trajectory of the literature, but also help them to understand the matter from which their own sense of identity has been constructed.

>>8274636
Nah, Chaucer is an anomaly in English literature. After Canterbury Tales there is virtually nothing worth reading for the next 150 years. When the English Renaissance happened the writers were using a completely different vernacular to that of Chaucer's (except Spenser admittedly, who was roundly criticised by Sidney, Jonson and others for using such an archaic diction).

You're all plebs: if you make three writers compulsory in the curriculum, two have to be of your own language and culture.

For Britain, I'd choose Dante, Chaucer and Shakespeare

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>>8274480
When u nut but she keeps succing

>>8275703
Because he liked an archaic German word very much, which was akin to "twain" but more like "thrain". He was so nimble he has managed to be an idealist philosopher, a romantic pamphleteer and a proto-psychologist trying to make systematic sense of the unconscious. In other words: his vocations were thrain. Thrain, like the artists of the Neuzeit everybody has to read.

>>8274636
>lacks historical importance in comparison to these three
WHAAAAAATTTTT

>>8275801

Kek

>>8274480
>>8274480
michael chabon, jonathan franzen, zadie smith

>>8274480
chad harbach, jeffrey eugenides, jonathan safran foer

>>8274480
rachel kushner, dave eggers, joyce carol oates

>>8276361
i'd say chabon, franzen, and eggers, but you want a woman in there. zadie is a good choice

>>8276370
i love eugenides!

>>8274480
cormac mccarthy, william faulkner, charles bukowski

>>8274480
camille paglia, christopher hitchens, gavin mcinnes

>>8276352
I second this, that's completely incorrect.

>>8276361
no one else thinks this was funny?

>>8276385
If you must include a woman, it should be Woolf.

>>8275693
Not him, but his prose is wonderful and he'd help get rid of the modern positivist mindset.

>>8274480
Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Joyce.

>>8276592
cant be sure, but i dont think the zadie smith dudes are being serious

>>8274480
I like the idea of Shakespeare and Goethe
Combined, they said EVERYTHING

>>8276598
You are an idiot

>Replacing the father of novel that is Cervantes instead of a drunk iliterate that is Shakespeare
Lit af m8
Cervantes, Homero and myself

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Core: Shakespeare, Gotethe, and Dante

then
Poets: Chaucer, Milton, and Keats
Dramatists: Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the English Renaissance
Novelists: Richardson, Dickens, and Austen

>>8277420
this would be for *English* Literature obviously

John Fowles, Samuel Delaney, Henry James.

>>8274480
DFW
DFW
DFW

>>8277420

Who is "Richardson"?

>>8277468
assumign samuel

>>8277814

Thanks buddy

Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Proust

>>8276421
Poor bait but a complementary (you) for trying.

McCarthy
Faulkner
O'Connor

>obligatory curriculum of maize

>>8274480
Plato Schopenhauer Dosto

>>8277879
>maize curriculum
>No cather

senpai??

>>8277396
and with goethe, off all things.
wtf is so great about goethe?

>>8277446
best answer by far

>>8277422
Who is this English Renaissance you mention? Never heard of him.

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For some resin these names all seem to be things I was forced to read in Honors Lit in 11th grade and then in my History/English classes in university. Except for Shakespeare who I was forced to read and wright papers on has punishment for bad grades by my neighbor. Note to my four year-old self don't pick the eccentric old man down the block to be your best friend, he will make you a a literate woman when you grow up.

my three
Joyce Carol Oates
Chaucer
Shakespeare

>>8275801
kek

>>8274480
Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, cause I spit hot fire

>>8278492
pleb

>>8274480
Mill, Dostoyevsky, Heidegger