So in the end,the canon is a list of the winners in the historical debate to define orthodox Christianity.
所以最后,正典书目只是赢家的清单,他们在这场定义东正教的历史争论中胜出。
But if meaning and significance bleed into each other, what I'm going to be doing is establishing a canon, as it were, unconsciously or semiconsciously.
但是意思和意义难以分清,我则会树立起一个顺其自然的标准,无意识地或者是半意识地。
And it's in these years after his graduation from college that Milton embarks upon what is essentially a systematic study of all available knowledge. He commands a mastery of just about the entire canon of Western literary and historical learning.
就是在他毕业后的这些年里,弥尔顿开始着手系统的学习,方方面面的知识,他想要精通,整个西方文学和历史经典。
There's a big debate about whether this canon list was composed around the year 200 or around the year 400.
人们曾热烈争论过正典书目的形成时间,是形成于主后两百年还是主后四百年。
But when you call something "canon," you mean that there's a group of writing that has boundaries to it.
但是当你称某样东西为正典时,便是指那些有界限的书籍。
By calling it canon,we're saying there's an actual list that a religious body adheres to, with books that are either in or books that are not in.
正典里有一系列书目,它们为宗教团体所支持,有些书被列入,有些书则被排斥。
But you can see when you look at all these different codices, different canon lists,from a century later in the 400s,two centuries later in the 500s,three centuries later in the 600s, you still get different lists.
如果你看看那些不同的抄本,不同的正典书目,一个世纪后的主后400年,两个世纪后的主后500年,三个世纪后的主后600年,你得到的书目仍然不同。
Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.
而后来,如果我希望,我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说,一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品,但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后,才能那样做。
What's new in theory is the element of skepticism that literary criticism by and large which is usually affirming a canon of some sort doesn't reflect.
这新内容就是怀疑主义元素,它是文学评论,所不具备的,文学评论总是坚持某种原则。
But generally,the canon developed over time through a process of general consensus.
但通常来说,正典书目,通过普遍同意会得以发展。
But they don't have a set list of things that make something the canon.
但他们没有列出一系列东西,让它们成为正典。
So notice that this could be a very early canon list.
所以这可能是一张非常早的正典书目。
We're not interested in establishing a principle of value that shapes a canon.
我们对于建立起一个,用来确定标准的评价原则并不感兴趣。
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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