Yes. Okay. Sometimes I do get students who have just an image of this novel in their mind, or they read it when they were in high school and have a sort of irrational, passionate love for it.

好的，有时候我的确会有一些学生,他们脑子里有一个这部小说的形象，或者在高中里读过,对之有一股毫无理由的热爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And in that essay she argues that O'Connor's grotesqueness, especially the grotesqueness of the women figures in her novels, is all wrapped up with the culture of southern womanhood.

在那篇论文里，她主张奥克纳所描写的丑陋，尤其是她小说里女人丑陋的形象，都与南部女子气质的文化有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选