Things just don't happen the way they happen in nurse novels and bodice-rippers -in which somehow or another the pauper marries the prince.

现实生活中不会发生像,？护士小说和浪漫情欲小说中发生的那些事情,在那些情节中，穷姑娘莫名其妙地嫁给了王子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, this is a more complex and, sort of, dense example of how that consumer, that push to consume, that consumer sense drives and motivates the novel and plays out in what they see when they are on the road.

这是个更复杂更难懂的例子，它有关那些消费者，怎样推动消费和消费者的意识怎样驱动小说情节发展,及演变出他们在路上看到的各种事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's that they seem also--and this is one of the reasons -- Brooks does have recourse to this particular text of Freud-- they also have the curious tendency to revisit unpleasurable things.

而事实上--这一点,是布鲁克斯完全照搬弗洛伊德的-,小说还会抱有一种好奇的心态重温情节中不愉快的部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

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Well, now maybe the important thing is to allow Brooks to comment on that so that you can see how he makes use of Freud's idea and move us a little bit closer to the application of these ideas to the structure of a literary plot or of a fictional plot.

现在最重要的事是允许布鲁克斯对此加以评论,这样一来你们就能看到他是怎样运用弗洛伊德的观点,并且进一步将其运用于,文学情节或小说情节的结构中去。

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