We then promised to move to an emphasis on psychological matters, and finally social and cultural determinants of literature.

然后我们把重点转移到了心理学，最后还讨论了社会和文化对文学的决定因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

History produces literature; and not just literary history, but social history, produces literature.

历史衍生文学;,但是不仅仅是文学历史，社会历史也能产生文学。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I thought you wrote excellently, too In political science, you've had some literary criticism and some sociology.

我觉得你写得也很好,你学的是政治科学，也学过一些,文学评论和社会学。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Is it a social context? Is it a literary one?

社会环境？文学环境？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the debates ranging for the last thirty years or so over the value of traditional pedagogy and over the value of canonical reading lists, Milton is always cited, invariably cited, as the canon's most stalwart representative of oppressive religious and social values.

过去30多年来，在传统教育学和权威必读书目,对价值的争辩中，米尔顿总是，无一例外的，被看做是英国文学经典中,宣扬压迫性的宗教社会价值的最坚定代表。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We, too, understand the relevance of what we call "the society function."] Rather it must be elucidated in its full extent through the problem of the evolution of literature.

你们不要以为我们很幼稚,我们也明白社会功能的意义是什么],但是我们必须用,文学进化的角度来解释它的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In other words, how can poetry in this view -how can literature be progressive?

文学怎么能,推动社会的进步呢？

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