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

My major? Basically I study American literature... in English, studying literature from 1865 until now.

我的专业？我主要学习从1865年到现在的美国文学，以英语授课。

和英文专业的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

As we'll learn from Jakobson next week, literature can be understood--or what he calls the study of literature, "poetics"--can be understood as a subfield of semiotics, but semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.

下周我们学雅各布森的时候也会看到，文学可以被理解为，诗学，即符号学的一个分支，但是符号学不是文学理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选