So, now, here's just a list for you: eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.

现在我给大家一张列表,上面列举了八项对纳博科夫非常重要的文学现代主义的特征。

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It makes it into a real literary object, sort of like a modernist text.

他们让这书像个真正的文学读本，像是种现代主义读本。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

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His terms are very much informed by a modernist sensibility of what literature is all about-- and I'm going to say more about what that is when I lecture on Lolita--but it's very much in contrast with that Ulysses ad. " Don't identify. It's not about you.

他的方式都是通过对文学的,现代主义式鉴赏来表达的,我在讲《洛丽塔》时会再详细说明,这和《尤利西斯》的广告有很大不同“,“无须认同，那与你无关，那是关于其他事情的”

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选