Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

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For certain purpose you can talk about slices but the fundamental thing is the salami.

因为某种目的你可以谈论它的部分,但根本的在于香肠本身。

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In other words, art for art's sake. That's Eliot's autotelic poem.

为了艺术而艺术，那就是艾略特目的存在于本身的诗歌。

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That is to say its purpose is not knowledge for its own sake.

这也就是说,其目的并非单纯仅为知识本身。

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