So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Like Fish, Hartman is most interested in the similes of the first two books, the similes that provide some kind of window onto the world of Satan, and he focuses on the simile actually ; that follows the simile of Satan's shield that we've been looking at; it follows the simile of the spear that Fish had analyzed.

和费什一样，哈特曼对于,前两本书里的那些比喻，那些提供了，一种窥视撒旦的世界的途径的比喻最感兴趣，他集中研究了那些实际上,和我们在理解的撒旦的庇护有所关联的比喻;,这个比喻紧随着费什已经分析过的长矛的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选