Often, when I am teaching "creative writing", teaching "humility", a text which I appeal is actually a Zen text.

很多时候，在我教创作型写作，灌输谦逊的理念时，我经常谈到一步有关禅的作品。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And this confusion, I think, has everything to do with the fact that this is no ordinary moral that we have in this work of literature.

我认为这种惶惑，是跟一个事实有关的,就是在这部文学作品中没有我们的普通道德。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well now, before we go any further-- in your Herodotus readings and elsewhere, you will come across many a story in which an oracle is consulted and gives an answer.

现在,在我们深入这个问题之前,当你们阅读希罗多德或其他作品时,里面有大量的故事,都跟某些请示神谕,寻求答案有关

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

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