Now in addition to defining literature, literary theory also asks questions obviously not unrelated but which open up the field somewhat.

除了定义文学以外，文学理论还提出一些,显然不是不相关，却开辟了新领域的问题。

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That is to say, maybe the most central and, for me, possibly the most fascinating question theory asks is well, what is literature?

对我而言，理论提出的最核心，也许是最有趣的一个问题是,文学是什么？

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Ian Hacking, who wrote a history of probability theory, searched through world literature for any reference to a probability and could find none anywhere before 1600.

伊恩·哈金为概率论追根溯源,他查遍世界所有关于概率的文献,发现无法追溯到十七世纪以前

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This is an aspect of thought concerning literature that tends to fall out of literary theory but not out of the materials that we are reading this week.

这样其实是在,脱离了文学理论的框架来思考文学，但我们,还是要联系上这周在读的内容。

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So hermeneutics will be our first topic, and it attempts to answer the last question that I've mentioned which is raised by theory of literature.

所以诠释学，是我们的第一个话题,它试图回答的是我在探讨文学理论时提出的最后一个问题。

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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“

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Many of the issues that I raised in talking about defining literature are as relevant for literary criticism as they are for literary theory, and yet we all instinctively know that these are two very different enterprises.

当讨论文学的定义时，我提出的许多问题,对于文学理论和文学评论都同样相关，但我们都知道,它们是两个不同的概念。

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It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

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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。

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You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

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