I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

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Often, when I am teaching "creative writing", teaching "humility", a text which I appeal is actually a Zen text.

很多时候，在我教创作型写作，灌输谦逊的理念时，我经常谈到一步有关禅的作品。

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It was awkward teaching an introduction Y and probably for that reason while I was teaching Lit 300, which was then called Lit Y, Z Paul de Man was teaching Lit Z.

教入门课非常尴尬,也许正因为这样，我教文学300时，当时它还叫文学，保罗，德，曼教教文学。

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