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It had been my accidental reading of fiction and literary criticism that had invoked in me vague glimpses of life's possibilities.
我偶尔会读小说和文学评述,这让我隐约地窥探到,生活的可能性，“
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I chose English Literature because when I started off a university, I didn't know what it was I wanted to do.
我选英语文学是因为当我刚上大学的时候，我不知道自己到底想做什么。
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Finally, I think it can be said that it's a poem whose deepest investmentis actually in Milton's mastery over the entire Western tradition of literature.
最后，我要说的是,这是一首弥尔顿对自身对于现代文学传统的,写作技巧苦心经营的诗。
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So hermeneutics will be our first topic, and it attempts to answer the last question that I've mentioned which is raised by theory of literature.
所以诠释学，是我们的第一个话题,它试图回答的是我在探讨文学理论时提出的最后一个问题。
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And I majored in English History and Literature, but I was interested in the 16th and 17th centuries.
我当时主攻的是英国历史和文学，而我感兴趣的是十七和十八世纪。
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This ambivalence that I'm describing is at the center of modern literature generally.
我所叙述的这种矛盾,是始终存在于现代文学的中心思想中的。
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That's what I think these great fine arts do, great literature, poetry, painting, music.
我觉得这就是伟大艺术的价值,无与伦比的文学,诗歌,绘画,音乐
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I call the literary and visual.
我称之为文学的和视觉。
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It is really going to give you a whole packaged reading of Franny and Zooey.We have just the one day on this novel, and what I'm going to be doing for you is modeling the way literary critics use evidence to advance an argument.
实际上，我从整体上全面的给你们讲解这部小说,关于这部小说我们只有一天的时间，我将要做的是为你们建立起,文学评论家使用例子来论证的模式。
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And if I don't do that. then I will apply to graduate school in comparative literature, probably in California
如果不行的话，我应该会申请去加利福尼亚大学的比较文学研究生院。
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Yeah, yeah. So, basically in Classics, we read sort of great works in Greek and Latin and discuss them.
好，行。我主修古典文学，我们要阅读希腊语和拉丁语的名著然后讨论。
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So, yeah, I thought that would really be a good opportunity to get to know different cultures' literature.
所以我觉得这是了解不同文化的文学的一个很好的机会。
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just in a sense that when she was taking, say, I don't know, class like C.C., which is Contemporary Civilization, or Lit. Hum.,
就好像她在上论当代文明，或人类文学这样的课程时，我不太清楚，
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Ah, sure, I graduated from University of Toronto and my major is English where I did literature
啊，当然了，我是多伦多大学毕业的，英语文学专业的。
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Okay, I'm an English teacher, but I'm in English Literature, more than English as a language.
我是一名英语教师，但是我教英语文学，多于英语语言的教学。
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My major? Basically I study American literature... in English, studying literature from 1865 until now.
我的专业？我主要学习从1865年到现在的美国文学，以英语授课。
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But I'm in the College of Letters and Sciences. That's the biggest one on campus.
我在文学和科学学院，这是学校最大的学院。
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What follows, it seems to me, is one of the most staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, amazing riffs on a passage of literature that you can encounter.
接下来这段节选，我认为，是你们能读到的文学作品里,最美妙，最惊艳的段子。
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There's a wonderful work of literary criticism -- I mentioned it last time --on Milton's indebtedness to Spenser in the book by John Guillory called Poetic Authority.
有一篇很棒的文学评论-,上次我提到了--关于弥尔顿对Spenser的感激,在约翰·久乐锐所著《诗人权威》中。
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John Milton has made a mistake. He's made a literary mistake and, as I think all editors know, Spenser does not.
约翰·弥尔顿犯下了一个错误，他犯下了一个文学上的错误，而且我认为所有的编辑都知道，这个错误斯潘塞没犯过。
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Well, there are two reasons, one because I want you to hear literary art.
有两个原因，其一，因为我希望你们能听到文学的艺术。
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All of that is the legacy of literary theory, and as I say, it arises in part from the element of skepticism that I thought it best to emphasize today.
这都是文学理论的遗产，我说过，它部分源自于怀疑论元素,我想最好在今天强调一下。
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That makes the subject matter that we'll be discussing this week, as I say, as much a part of the history of criticism as it is of literary theory.
这样一来，我们这周的内容就变得至关重要了，就像我说过的那样，我们将学习到文学理论方面,乃至评论史上重要的一章。
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This is part of what I find so compelling about fiction and literature in general in this period.
这是我所找到的这个时期,小说和文学通常引人注目,的原因之一。
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He's a familiar face in American literature, and I've gathered some of them that seemed representative.
他在美国文学中是经常出现的人，我找到了一些有代表性的图像。
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This is a kind of meta-literary allegorization that I'll be performing here: you could also think of Milton the poet as being stuck at this same juncture.
这是一种元文学的语词新作,我现在会开始展示，你们也可以思考一下,诗人弥尔顿也在同样的时刻陷入僵局。
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So the courses I took - -actually I took some English history obviously - I took no American history which would be the field I did in the PHD, but I took a lot of courses in philosophy, in literature.
所以我选了一些课程,当然我选修了英国历史-,但我没有学美国历史,因为那是我博士时的课程，但我选了很多哲学和文学方面的课程。
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Literary theory, as I say, is skeptical about the foundations of its subject matter and also, in many cases, about the foundations of what it itself is doing.
就像我说的，文学理论，是对创作题材的怀疑,在很多情况下，也是对自身所做之事的基础的怀疑。
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Many of the issues that I raised in talking about defining literature are as relevant for literary criticism as they are for literary theory, and yet we all instinctively know that these are two very different enterprises.
当讨论文学的定义时，我提出的许多问题,对于文学理论和文学评论都同样相关，但我们都知道,它们是两个不同的概念。
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And yet the concepts go into my interests and people, they are literary and it's a mixture of the two that when I'm looking and if I'm successful - which is, not very much amount of time, I put into my writing, so this is something worth exploring.
这些概念成为我兴趣的一部分,人是文学的,是二者的混合,当我的观察卓有成效时,-这种时候不常见，我就将观察记述下来，这是值得探究的。
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