History produces literature; and not just literary history, but social history, produces literature.

历史衍生文学;,但是不仅仅是文学历史，社会历史也能产生文学。

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By the same token, if literature has effects, it must have effects on someone, and this gives rise to the equally interesting and vexing question, "What is a reader?"

同样，如果文学史有影响的，它一定会对某些人产生影响，它也会引出一个同样有趣,而恼人的问题，“读者是谁？“

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But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

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