So I'm partially going to retract what I had said about the Lady's place at the very heart of this work.

所以我要部分收回,我之前说的关于小姐在这个作品中的核心地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

no surprise] as we refer to the objects they are meant to present - a defect in a literary text."

当我们讲到它们所想要表现的东西时,但这正是文学作品的一个缺点“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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 gives an example--I like to-- he gives an example from a book that-- or it's a collection-- You know this?

他举了个例子...我想要...,他举了一本书上的例子,或者说是本作品集,有谁知道这本作品集吗

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This is what I'll be proposing over the course of this lecture: that memory is a problem that Paradise Lost is continually confronting.

这就是我在这堂课上准备谈论的：,即记忆是《失乐园》这部作品始终要对抗的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I really, really need you to read that before the next class, and I want you to read it critically.Kaufman's ideas are important, but they are also overstated, and so they're going to be interesting for us.

我非常非常需要你们在下一次课前读完，要带有批判性的去读，考夫曼的思想是很重要的，但也有夸张的成分在里面，所以阅读他的作品对我们来说是很有趣的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Next we will deal with what's the--arguably-- the single most important thing when we listen to any piece of music and that is its musical form.

接下来我们要处理一个有争议的问题,音乐作品中的最重要的部分是什么,那就是曲式

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

That's not what Welles wanted He wanted to examine the myth of the past, even the rest of being a little nostalgic about the whole stuff, and to build the work of art, so we can live with that.

这不是威尔斯想要做的,他想检验过去之谜，甚至对这一切,和创作艺术作品，有一点怀念,所以我们可以生活在他的艺术里。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But there's one other complication that you've got to be warned about, which is this. Because these are dialogues and they take the form of philosophical arguments, people put forward views and then, over the course of the discussion, change their minds about things.

但是,还有一个地方,我要提醒你们,那就是,由于这些是对话作品,且它们全都采用了哲学论证的形式,即,人们先提出观点,然后,在讨论的过程中,改变自己的关于事物想法

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's the model of investment and profit that characterized so many of Milton's own early writings, including that promise, you'll remember, to his fellow Englishmen that he would one day produce a work of literature that his countrymen would not willingly let die.

这是一种投资模式和带有很多弥尔顿早期写作特征的收益,它包括了那个诺言，你们应该记得,那个诺言指他说有一天要为自己的追随者们写一篇文学作品,他的同胞们不希望这个诺言落空。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And while it would be ridiculous for us to read the entire mask as the poet's own completely unfettered autobiographical fantasy, a Miltonic set of interests and a Miltonic set of anxieties charging and fueling this work.

虽然要我们读完整篇文章有点荒谬,因为诗人的自传幻想太无拘无束了，这个作品有弥尔顿式的嗜好,和弥尔顿式的焦虑控诉及刺激因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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