That is the way in which de Man wants to think about the relationship precisely between literature and other forms of speech.

那就是德曼想要思考的一种方式,他想用这种方式来思考文学和其它文体之间的关系。

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Again and again he says that the important thing is to insist on the difference between literature and other forms of discourse.

他一遍又一遍地说，重要的是坚持,文学和其它文体间的不同。

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After that, I began a series of readings of novels that emphasized more what you might call the history of literature, the history of literature's forms and ambitions.

在那之后，我讲了一系列的,强调文学史，关于文学形式和理想的，历史的小说阅读。

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In the interest of time, I'm going to skip over a few other passages that I was going to read to you in reinforcement of this insistence, on de Man's part, that literature differs from other forms of discourse, the remaining question being: literature differs from other forms of discourse how?

由于时间关系，我将忽略一些其它的文章,我本想念给你们听，来巩固对这个主张的理解，对于德曼，文学与其它问题形式不同，剩下的问题是：,文学怎样与其它文体不同？

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