Katharine Hepburn's character, Tracy Lord,is talking with her new friend, Macaulay Connor,a writer.

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She wrote a very compelling argument about O'Connor's fiction not about Wise Blood in particular, but about her stories.

她针对奥克纳小说写过一篇极有说服力的文章,并不只是针对《慧血》，而是针对奥克纳的所有故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, of course, O'Connor was very good at imbuing her writing with repeated symbols that grow and accrue meaning across the text.

当然，奥康纳非常善于,使文章充满那些贯穿全文,且意义不断积累、,不断强化的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And in that essay she argues that O'Connor's grotesqueness, especially the grotesqueness of the women figures in her novels, is all wrapped up with the culture of southern womanhood.

在那篇论文里，她主张奥克纳所描写的丑陋，尤其是她小说里女人丑陋的形象，都与南部女子气质的文化有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I also want to give another layer to this understanding of O'Connor as a religious writer by looking at what she said in her correspondence to one of her readers who asked her some questions, and this is on the handout that I passed around.

我还想给大家另一层,理解这位宗教作家的方式,那就是去看她,回复一位读者问题的信件，这在我发给大家的材料上有。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选