With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Interesting. North of Boston, a great book that follows A Boy's Will, is a title that locates these poems in a specific place in northern New England.

很有趣吧，“波士顿以北“是在,“少年的意志之后“,它把这些诗歌的背景设置在新英格兰的北部。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In fact, I don't quite know what he is saying" and struggled more than you're expected to because you anticipated what I've just been saying about the setting and about the role of Foucault and all the rest of it, and were possibly more confused than you might have expected to be.

事实上，我也不太清楚他在说什么“,然后你发现这比预想的更难理解,因为你预想了我给你们设置的背景,以及福柯和其他人的角色，然后可能会发现比自己预想的更困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选