I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

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It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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