How is literature thought in America?
I'm from Europe, Slovenia, and in our highschools the Language class in divided into grammar part and literature part. In the 'literature part' we go through every time period from ancient greek/roman literature to modern literature and briefly go through the most important authors, their works and their impact (and we do the same with our countries progress throught the years).
To give some examples; we go through Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Zola, Shakespeare, Proust, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kafka, Joyce, ... In total we would go through cca 50 european authors.
What's the case in America? I read that there is no national curriculum and that books are chosen by the school/professors but are chosen books meant to be read from beginning till end? Seeing people only list books by american or english authors im wondering do schools not teach the entire history of literature and specifics of each period?
This might be a dumb questions because i am aware that europe=teaching european history of literature and america=teaching american history of literature yet sometimes i am taken aback by people not being thought about Dostoevsky, Dante, Proust and such as I see them and many others as truly pivotal to literary revolution.
(sorry if this is not the right subreddit, in #AskAnAmerican there's a word limit and in #literature you need enough karma points to post and my post just got deleted from #books...)