What's new in theory is the element of skepticism that literary criticism by and large which is usually affirming a canon of some sort doesn't reflect.

这新内容就是怀疑主义元素,它是文学评论,所不具备的,文学评论总是坚持某种原则。

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While the New Critics, in a variety of ways, insist that form is meaning, form is content and so on, they're still not really breaking down the distinction between form and content.

新批评主义者们认为，形式就是意义，形式就是内容，但是他们还是没有打破,形式和内容的区别。

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If we are neutralists, we're going to say, the question is, what would the contents of my life have been, for the next year, ? ten years, whatever?

如果我们是守中主义者，我们会说，问题是，我的生活内容是什么，即下一年的内容，接下来十年的内容是什么？

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I'm going to talk about absolute rule.

我今天要讲的内容是绝对主义

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Well, I actually think the Russian formalists can be defended against the charge that, unbeknownst to themselves, they fall back in to form-content distinctions by insisting on this variety of dualities.

但是我认为,这些形式主义者们在不自觉中，对于形式和内容的双重性,太过偏执。

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There's an obvious sense in which they understand poetic languageto be that in which form is predominant and practical language to be that in which content is predominant, but the Russian formalists see it in a slightly different way.

他们认为,诗歌中形式占主导,实用语言中内容占主导，但是俄国形式主义者们不这么认为。

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