What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature."

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争,胜利的那些才能被称为文学性“

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The subject matter itself becomes the dominant device, and it implies in your imagination a way to construct it, but the way to construct it is not the dominant.

但是在奥布莱恩的文章里，主题被首先给出，主题占支配地位，在想象中引导你构建情节。

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