I wanna try college for English/lit but I don't want to be assigned books to analyze through a feminist or post-colonial lens type shit. Any anons have experience with lit in college? What was it like?

>>24535025 (OP)
Teachers don't prescribe a lens to analyze a text through unless it's course where you're supposed to learn about different lenses.
>I want to go to college for English lit
Why? You're better off worrying about this. Why do you need this degree? Can you get what you want without this degree?

>>24535025 (OP)
>I wanna try college for English/lit but I don't want to have to risk having my preconceptions challenged
Luckily for you unless things have changed drastically since I last attended one you typically get loads of options when it comes to what you actually write about. Of course if you're clever you'll take the advice that was given to me and learn to wrote a gender essay, because every exam and assignment will have the "discuss x in terms of gender shit" question and being able to competently write one would be a useful skill.

>>24535025 (OP)
I take college lit courses in summer because it’s free. Don’t spend money on this shit. If you’re in some godforsaken shithole where you pay out the ass for school don’t take any courses on it just read the syllabus and you’re doing more than most people taking the class. Find community alternatives elsewise. There are plenty of study circles and reading clubs online. Even serious ones.
If you just want to deepen insights into literature on the whole get critical compilations on your favourite authors. There’s tons on the standards like Shakespeare but pop authors get them as well (because english departments need something to do to justify existing). Just be prepared that most of their “insights” suck, and are exactly in the critical theory, feminist analysis vein you already know how it goes. Racist, sexist, power and privilege, colonialism, western bad.

Taking the classes it depends entirely on the teachers AND the student groups. You have a lot of seminars and if the rest of the class suck it’s all the worse for you.

College classes are a humiliation ritual. Thankfully nowadays you can at least let chat GPT take most of the cucking burden from you

>>24535237
NTA but that's why im majoring in history not literature

>>24535174
>Teachers don't prescribe a lens to analyze a text through unless it's course where you're supposed to learn about different lenses.
False, as I experienced

>>24535331
NTA, original guy was too generous. It’s /in theory/ the way of academia. In practice if you get political or opinionated teachers or one that just hates you they can and will fail you. You’d have to revise or kick it up the reviewboard which is a hassle in itself and they tend to protect their own unless it’s egregious.