So the way this course is divided up is different than the Financial Theory course.
这门课程的划分,与另一科目"金融理论"不一样
I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.
我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。
Well, one of the lessons of this course is we have a wonderful theory, but we don't manage it well, mostly.
我们在这门课里可以学到的一点是,我们拥有很好的理论,但在实践中却总是不能应用得当。
Well, here we're going to have, of course, more modest and more bold versions of the valuable container theory.
当然这时候出现了,较保守和较激进的有价值容器理论。
A big problem with this is a lot of Freudian theory is claimed to be validated in the course of psychoanalysis.
这里存在的一个大问题便是,精神分析理论中的很多内容,被认为是能够在精神分析的过程中,得到证实的。
As we saw in the last lecture, the elder brother holds an entirely different theory of chastity, and of course, it's a lot more optimistic.
我们上一讲中看到,年长的哥哥对贞节有完全不同的看法,当然那是乐观许多的。
So there's a little worry going in about not just this example but about the course, about the whole theme of learning Game Theory.
所以不仅担心这个例子,也会担心这个课程,担心博弈论整个理论
Now if we accept the body theory, then of course we turn to the question ? "Could I survive my death?"
如果我们接受了肉体论,我们肯定会问,我可以死后复生吗“
That's one of the good things that theory teaches us and that I hope to be able to get across in the course of our varied approaches to Tony the Tow Truck.
这就是理论教给我们的东西,我也想通过从不同角度分析《拖运车托尼》,来告诉你们这一点。
During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.
我一开始教这门课的时候,文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。
And on this theory, of course, the secret to being the same person is having the same body.
当然,这个理论认为,成为同一个人的秘诀在于,拥有同样的肉体。
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“
Not all theory that we read in this course is skeptical.
我们在这门课中提及的理论不全是怀疑性的。
Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.
因为如果你是个保守者,如果你接受保守价值容器理论,那么如果生活内容极为糟糕,它便超越了活着的正数。
I'm not going to expand on this because I can't get into-- This is not a course in probability theory but I'm hopeful that you can see the formula and you can apply it.
我不准备拓展这一部分,毕竟这节课不是概率论,但我希望你们能记住这个公式,并且学会应用
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。
Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.
现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想,即女性不会受到伤害,但当然,在这个幻想背后,性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。
If you look at John Geanakoplos's course on Financial Theory, his mathematical concepts are central to his outline of the course; but this being a Financial Markets course, I'm dividing it up more in terms of markets and institutions.
如果你们听约翰·吉纳科普洛斯的,金融理论课,他的大纲中心部分,是金融学中的数学概念,而我们这是金融市场课,于是我从金融市场和,金融机构的角度来划分这一课
Okay. So that's the basic distinction and, as I say, as far as I can see it's irreconcilable so it leaves us with a choice that really does have to be made, and it's a choice which looms over a course in literary theory and coming to understand the tradition of literary theory.
这就是二者基本的不同之处,我以前说过,只要二者不能兼容,我们就不得不从中选择一个,这个选择将会一直出现在文学理论课,和理解文学理论传统的过程中。
There are lots of things to be said against it, on the other hand, which I don't want to pause over now because I think a course of lectures on literary theory will inevitably show the ways in which paraphrase is inadequate to the task of rigorous interpretation.
另一方面,有很多反对这个的言论,我不想在此,停下来讲,因为我觉得一门,文学理论上的课不可避免地,会包括一些释意所无法,充分解释的方面,一个严苛的评论家克林斯。
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