"Masterpiece of Western Literature"

[Qoèlet]

So I'm in at the campus book store today, where they sell textbooks for all of the university's courses. While I'm there I notice a familiar softcover on the shelf designated for English 110X: Masterpieces of Western Literature. Now, I'd taken this course in my first year, and the content of it included Dante's Inferno, The Iliad, The Oddysey, a selection or two from Shakespeare among others, Woolf, and so forth. But this book was new. Apparently, this year the masterpieces include Dante, Shakespeare, and now.....

Allan Moore's Watchmen.

I **** you not... now if they threw Kingdom Come into the mix as well, that could be quite the course.

 

[The Question]

It's not really that surprising. Watchmen and Maus are the two most highly critically aclaimed comics outside the comic fandoms. Lots of colleges study Watchmen in their english literature classes. Plus, it was designed for the sole purpose of showing off what comics can do that no other medium can, and it did it very well. It's going to be studied by alot of folks.

 

[Dwarf lord]

My Girlfriend's AP Language class is doing a unit on Holocaust literature and one of the major books they have to read is Maus. I was quite excited to see that (seeing as I recommended it to the teacher the year before).

 

[Darthphere]

Colleges are gravitating towards new mediums and much more relatable and exciting basis for study lately. I noticed today that the ENC1102 classes have Casino Royale as a required reading book this semester at my college.

 

[Shon]

Colleges are gravitating towards new mediums and much more relatable and exciting basis for study lately. I noticed today that the ENC1102 classes have Casino Royale as a required reading book this semester at my college.

That is a surprise. I have never read that one myself but have always wanted to.

I was always curious if any Burroughs books were being assigned in schools these days. He wrote a few classics himself.