Much of what we'll be reading takes up the question "What is literature?"

我们将阅读的文章很大程度上是关于“文学是什么？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you are reminded here by the passage of Tynjanov that I gave you where he makes the distinction between literary history as evolving and literary history as modified by outside circumstances, I think it would be a legitimate parallel.

如果你们可以会想起我以前让你们读的提尼亚诺夫,那篇区分作为演变和,由外界因素改造的文学史的文章，那么一切就合乎逻辑了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That's why I gave you the extraordinary passage on your sheet, the end of Tynjanov's "On Literary Evolution," written also 1927, written also, in other words, in response to Trotsky's Literature and Revolution.

这就是为什么我给你们了这篇精彩的文章阅读，1927年蒂尼亚诺夫在，文学进化，中写道，这也是，他对托洛斯基，文学与革命，的回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选