In the second half of class, I will introduce to you and start telling the first story of the term, and that's about Richard Wright's Black boy which is our first reading of the term.

下面我将把这堂课的，第一个故事介绍并讲述给你们,理查，怀特的《黑孩子》,这是我们这学期要读的第一本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选