He's going to try to give us a living prose, but this is the end against which it finds itself pressed.

试图给我们一部活生生的作品，但是这中留白成了,他最终努力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Phantom must be the most iconic Broadway musical ever and it's for a good reason. It's incredible.

歌剧魅影》是百老汇最具代表的一部作品，这是有原因的，真是好看极了。

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He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

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But he wrote one of the most brilliant critiques of change, and what it can mean, any American ever wrote.

但他写了一部非常精彩的关于变革的评论,这是美国人所著同类作品中最出色的一部

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It's to admit that this is in fact a late epic and that it derives from a close, studious, student-like imitation of the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

也就等于承认它事实上是一部晚期的史诗作品,是源自于雷同的，学究气的，小学生般的,对荷马与维吉尔写的伟大史诗的模仿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We should approach the book, in other words, not as we might a treatise, but as we might approach a work of literature or drama.

我们切入本书的角度，换句话来说，不应视其为论述，而是要将其视为,一部文学或戏剧作品。

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Next time, we're turning to a very different kind of writing, a writing equally preoccupied with its relationship to the world, to life, but very differently approaching that problem.

下次，我们将关注一部完全不同的,作品，一部同样让人着迷的，与生活和世界以完全不同的,方式产生关联的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But in any event, Deuteronomy is not simply the concluding book of the Pentateuch, ; or the story that began in Genesis; it's also the first part of a much larger, longer literary work, as I mentioned last time, a work that runs from Deuteronomy through to the end of 2 Kings.

但无论如何，《申命记》不是摩西五经的终结篇，或者说是自《创世纪》开始的故事;,它也是一部更宏观长远的作品的开篇，我上节课提到过，这部作品从《申命记》一直到《列王记》结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A second finding building on the first is that we form impressions very fast, very quickly, and this is a literature known as "thin slices."

根据第一个发现，我们有了第二个发现,那就是第一印象形成得非常快，有一部文学作品叫《薄片》

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So the point of this is: once you get these kind of progressions locked in your ears, you go to a concert and you can begin to chart what the piece is doing in terms of its harmony.

这里的重点是，一旦你的耳朵牢牢记住了这些进程，你去听音乐会的时候就能开始分析一部作品的和声了。

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The Dark Tower", one of his... yeah, that's a great series.

他的作品之一——《黑塔》。嗯，那是一部伟大的作品。

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Of course, it's contested whether or not there is really any merit in talking about texts that way.

当然也有人质疑,那样去谈论一部作品是否真有必要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you have to interpret it, it isn't any good.

如果文学作品需要解读，那么它就不是一部好作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They are not concerned about interpretation because to them, good writing is precisely writing that's clear, writing that doesn't need to be interpreted but has precisely as its virtue its transparency of meaning.

他们不关注解读问题,因为对他们而言，一部好的作品必须清楚明白，正因为它表意清楚,所以不需要解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

That's another one of those sentences by Faulkner that sort of captured this spirit of Alabama Fever, as it was called, in the 1820s and '30s, and Mississippi Fever in the 1830s, Louisiana/Texas Fever by the 18 well Louisiana Fever is even earlier--but Texas Fever by the 1840s.

还有福克纳写的另一部作品,作品谈到了十九世纪二三十年代的,圈地狂潮,在阿拉巴马州,十九世纪三十年代的密西西比,在路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州,路易斯安那州圈地潮相对出现得更早,德克萨斯州圈地潮是在十九世纪四十年代

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