What's the dominant in the text is just the stuff, the stuff in his knapsack listed with as little implication as possible.

主题占支配地位，重要的是那些在背包里几乎没有任何含义的东西。

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In a certain poet, the image, the image patterns, can certainly be recognized as the dominant device.

对于特定的一个诗人，图像，或图像的组合，当然可以是占支配地位的方法。

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In other words, an enormous variety of aspects of literature, understood as "literariness," can become the dominant.

也就是说，文学的很多方面，也就是我们所说的文学性，都可以占支配地位。

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Any device can be the dominant at a given moment in the development of literary history.

任何一种方法都可以,在文学发展史的特定时期占支配地位。

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In the first place, notice that sometimes story can be the dominant in obviously formal terms.

有时候故事明显,会占支配地位。

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The subject matter itself becomes the dominant device, and it implies in your imagination a way to construct it, but the way to construct it is not the dominant.

但是在奥布莱恩的文章里，主题被首先给出，主题占支配地位，在想象中引导你构建情节。

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