In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

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these are at least among the questions that Socrates or Plato, the author of the book, deliberately poses for us to consider.

就是这些问题,这些至少就是苏格拉底或柏拉图，本书作者，所特意提出让我们思考的问题。

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But there's one in particular that you just have to listen too, and it was the interview with Michael Pollan, the author of the book that's for the class.

但还有一个你们不能错过的播客,就是对麦克尔·波兰的访谈,他是本课教材的作者

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This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

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He is not a gentleman. But how magically his singing violin can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita that makes us entranced with the book while abhorring its author.

他不是绅士，但神奇地他的小提琴声,能召唤出对Lolita的宠爱和同情,那让我们对这本书着迷，同时却在憎恨着作者。

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