厄普代克这个典型的美国人，他是一个伟大的白人新教徒作家，当时的文学时代由犹太人统治：索尔·贝娄、诺曼·梅勒和菲利普·罗斯。

Very much a Yankee, Mr. Updike was the great white Protestant writer in a literary era that was dominated by Jews: Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth.

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这是文学时代变化造成的。

It brings about The Times changes of literature.

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伊丽莎白文学时代是英国情诗的伟大年代。

The Elizabethan Age is the age of romantic poetry .

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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。

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And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

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