Finally, literary theory asks one other important question it asks many, but this is the way at least I'm organizing it for today it asks one other important question, the one with which we will actually begin: not so much "What is a reader?" but "How does reading get done?"

最后，文学理论给人们提出其它重要的问题,它提出许多问题，但我今天是这样组织的,它提出一个重要的问题，也就是我们今天开始要提出的问题：,不是“读者是谁“而是“阅读是如何开展的？“

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In other words, the effort of a reader in coming to terms with the meaning of a text is an effort to master the subject matter, what is there, what the text is really about.

也就是说读者为理解文本,做出的努力,就是来掌握事情本身，存在的努力，掌握文本究竟是关于什么的努力。

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