What did we lose in our understanding of it as a literary object when the second half was not published?

将它置于文学作品之列来理解时,我们失去了什么？,书的后半部分没出版时？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Right. You really have to have a wise passiveness that moment to really think that every piece of art have that kind of duty behind it.

的确，一个人必须要有这种聪悟的被动,才能在那一瞬间理解到每一个艺术作品,背后都有这个的意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And the violence, I think, of this reaction is due in large part to our tendency to think of Milton and of Milton's work in terms of the category of power.

之所以会有这么激烈的回应，我认为在很大程度上,是由于人们倾向于在力量的范畴,理解米尔顿和他的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Anyone can appreciate The Simpsons but I think it does take education to appreciate Shakespeare as much.

任何人都能看懂《辛普森一家》,但是我认为确实需要教育,才能理解莎士比亚的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We can often better understand the dialogues by seeing Socrates as putting forward certain positions that he does not think are altogether adequate.

通过了解那些由苏格拉底提出,但他自己也觉得不充分的观点,我们可以更好地理解这些对话作品

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The work of art arises from a background of other works and through association with them.

艺术作品源于对其背景下,其他作品的理解和联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We had to be taught how to read him, how to understand him.

我们得通过学习才能理解他的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You get the idea that everything arises from the extraordinary mental acuity or spiritual insight of an author and that what needs to be understood about literature is the genius of its production.

你发现一切,都源自这些作者的敏锐头脑和深刻见解,关于文学，你需要理解的,是这些天才的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选