But first we need to establish a few things about the occasion for this piece and about the genre, the literary genre of the mask in general.

但首先我们必须建立一些,关于此作品与流派，一般文学体裁《面具》的场合。

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There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.

有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。

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Though he sometimes does talk about texts that we call "literary," indeed he very often does, nevertheless Derrida's position and the logic of that position suggest that we can't really reliably discriminate among genres.

尽管他有时确实会讨论被我们称为“文学“的文本“,事实上他经常如此，然而德里达的立场和他立场的逻辑,是我们不能够明确地划分文学的体裁。

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In other words, we can't use genre either as a blanket term; one of the most influential people in persuading us that there's no such thing as literature, legal texts, theological texts, philosophical texts, or scientific texts.

话句话说，我们不能将体裁用做一个概括性称呼;,主张没有文学，法律文本,哲学文本，或是科学文本中，最具影响的人物之一。

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