Things just don't happen the way they happen in nurse novels and bodice-rippers -in which somehow or another the pauper marries the prince.

现实生活中不会发生像,？护士小说和浪漫情欲小说中发生的那些事情,在那些情节中，穷姑娘莫名其妙地嫁给了王子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选