I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.

我觉得，这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In any case, I thought I'd begin today by making a few remarks about the title of our course because it has some big words in it "theory" and "literature,"but also "introduction."

我想先,谈谈这门课的名称,因为里面有几个大词：,理论，文学和介绍“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She's a daughter of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and she represents that force that prevents Milton from forgetting all of the pagan and all of the classical literature that, of course, he had spent so much of his life reading.

她是记忆女神摩涅莫辛涅的女儿，她代表着力量,这种力量阻止着弥尔顿忘记所有的异教神,以及所有的古典文学，当然，那些文学他已经花了大半辈子阅读了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, what they do now though, and we'll talk about this much later in the course but one cure for phobias does draw upon, in a more intelligent way, the behaviorist literature.

而如今治疗恐惧症的方法，我们会在后面讲到临床心理学的时候,人们依据行为主义的文献，从一种更加聪明的角度出发，提出了一种恐惧症治疗方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This isn't the last time this will happen during the course of the syllabus, our job is to bring out the implications for literature of texts that we read that don't have any direct bearing on literary study.

而且以后你们还会读到很多和文学没有关系的东西,在课程大纲里，我们的任务是,读懂文学的含义,但是课程里却又很多东西和文学无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Turning to the word literature, this is not theory of relativity, theory of music, or theory of government This is a course in theory of literature, and theory of literature shares in common with other kinds of theory the need for definition.

提到文学这个词，我们讲的不是不是相对论，音乐理论，或者政治理论,这是一门文学理论课程，和其他理论一样,它也需要定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选