One kind of question, then, I was raising is: what context do you use to read any novel?

我所提出的一类问题是：,你一般采用什么语境去理解小说？

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It's not a question, in other words, of poetry or of a novel being somehow or another strictly a matter of poetic language.

毫无疑问，诗歌或小说是,诗化语言的严格体现。

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This is one question I want you to think about as you finish this novel.

这个问题我希望你们在读完小说之后思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And what does it mean to be an American in this novel? So, that's the question I'd like to take up today first. Coming from Lolita, the vision of America in On the Road looks quite different.

这对于小说里你是一个美国人又意味着什么？,这是我今天想让你们思考的第一个问题，《洛丽塔》里，描写的美国景象非常不同于《在路上》之中的景象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is going to be an important question for us as we think about what happens to Lolita over the course of the novel.

这将是除了《Lolita》的内容外,在我们分析Lolita的际遇时的很重要的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But, I would suggest to you, Salinger is trying to balance something very carefully, that relates back to this question of doctrine versus syncretism in the religious sphere of the novel, in the religious thematic material of the novel.

但是我提醒你们，Salinger，小心的平衡某个东西,那和之前的问题有关,关于小说里宗教范畴里的教条和宗教融合的比较，也是在小说里的宗教主题材料里的比较。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选