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。

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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。

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I believe that these are the foundational moments of theorizing and that if you're going to teach anything like a survey, you've got to derive the rest of it from whatever the moment I happen to subscribe to might be."

我相信这些都对建立理论非常重要,如果你想教概论之类的东西，那么其它的部分都得是我赞同的才行“

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That's the way it felt to teach theory in those days.

这就是我在当时教理论的感受。

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