But it also contains other positions, alternatives that open those over-sized cultural ambitions to critique, to imaginative alternatives of many kinds.

但是它其中也包含着其他一些姿态，一些将这种过量的文学抱负供以批判的选择，以及多种多样的想象出的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I think we can make the mistake, thinking about autobiography, that it's somehow not literary. But in fact it's very literary, and part of what makes it literary is the fact that you have to choose what scenes go into that narrative.

我觉得我们可以犯这个错误，想想自传，从某种程度上说它不是文学，但事实上它很文学,其中一个原因是你选择加入叙述的那些场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Okay. So that's the basic distinction and, as I say, as far as I can see it's irreconcilable so it leaves us with a choice that really does have to be made, and it's a choice which looms over a course in literary theory and coming to understand the tradition of literary theory.

这就是二者基本的不同之处，我以前说过，只要二者不能兼容,我们就不得不从中选择一个，这个选择将会一直出现在文学理论课,和理解文学理论传统的过程中。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选