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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
My alma mater (UNC) teaches full semester classes on Ulysses (in the English department) and Lord of the Rings (in the Folklore and Mythology department). We also spent an entire semester on Paradise Lost (in the English department).
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Ulysses +1 (in all honesty, I've never read it. I am intrigued by it's parallel with the Odyssey though.)
also;
The Bible - as a foundation for most English literature, not as a religious text.
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Great Expectations - Dickens (both endings)