And I majored in English History and Literature, but I was interested in the 16th and 17th centuries.

我当时主攻的是英国历史和文学，而我感兴趣的是十七和十八世纪。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Freud lives on both in a clinical setting and in the university but Freud at Yale, for instance, is much more likely to be found in the history department or the literature department than in the psychology department.

虽然在临床和大学中,都会有涉及到弗洛伊德的理论,但是，以耶鲁为例，你更可能在历史系或是文学系,听到弗洛伊德的理论,而不是在心理学系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选