When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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Needless to say, it's the central word in Derrida, which is nevertheless not classifiable or categorizable, and so for that reason we can't really say Derrida is specifically a literary theorist.

不用说，这个词对德里达来说至关重要，然而我们确实无法对话语进行分类，因此，我们恐怕不能称,德里达为文学理论家。

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Turning to the word literature, this is not theory of relativity, theory of music, or theory of government This is a course in theory of literature, and theory of literature shares in common with other kinds of theory the need for definition.

提到文学这个词，我们讲的不是不是相对论，音乐理论，或者政治理论,这是一门文学理论课程，和其他理论一样,它也需要定义。

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You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.

大家应该发现，当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时，他们完全理解了文学评论体系，这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌，还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。

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