That is to say, maybe the most central and, for me, possibly the most fascinating question theory asks is well, what is literature?
对我而言,理论提出的最核心,也许是最有趣的一个问题是,文学是什么?
When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.
他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论
We, too, understand the relevance of what we call "the society function."] Rather it must be elucidated in its full extent through the problem of the evolution of literature.
你们不要以为我们很幼稚,我们也明白社会功能的意义是什么],但是我们必须用,文学进化的角度来解释它的功能。
I'm going to read parts of them to you, and together I think they give you the sort of snapshot I want you to have of where literature stands, where reading stands, at the middle of the twentieth century.
我要读一部分给大家听,这些可以给大家,一个关于二十世纪中期,文学和阅读的立足点是什么的简单印象。
What causes literature and what are the effects of literature?
文学的缘由是什么,它又带来了哪些影响?
Much of what we'll be reading takes up the question "What is literature?"
我们将阅读的文章很大程度上是关于“文学是什么?“
Literariness, then. What is literariness?
文学性,什么是文学性?
What can literature say that nothing else can?
什么是文学所独有的能力?
You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.
首要原则是,需要锁定要谈论,即学习的目标,可是,谁知道什么是文学。
Nobody's really ever known what literature is."
谁知道什么是文学“
You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.
大家应该发现,当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时,他们完全理解了文学评论体系,这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌,还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。
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