Now in addition to defining literature, literary theory also asks questions obviously not unrelated but which open up the field somewhat.

除了定义文学以外，文学理论还提出一些,显然不是不相关，却开辟了新领域的问题。

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Now theory resembles philosophy perhaps in this: that it asks fundamental questions and also at times builds systems.

理论和哲学的相似之处在于：,它探讨根本性的问题，而且有时也建立系统。

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So Nabokov imbues that state of impersonality with certain kinds of emotion and then asks the reader to be as impersonal as that modernist artist also must be.

所以纳博科夫用某些特定的情感,来营造非个人化的境界,让读者像现代主义艺术家那样非个人化。

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