Literary theory is very much involved with questions of that kind, and organizing those questions is basically what rationalizes the structure of our syllabus.

文学理论和这种问题有密切联系，我们的课程大纲基本上,就是根据这些问题来组织的。

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This isn't the last time this will happen during the course of the syllabus, our job is to bring out the implications for literature of texts that we read that don't have any direct bearing on literary study.

而且以后你们还会读到很多和文学没有关系的东西,在课程大纲里，我们的任务是,读懂文学的含义,但是课程里却又很多东西和文学无关。

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