So what I think we get from these two little readings today is a sense of where literature finds itself at a kind of crossroads.

所以我们今天要从这两篇短文里认识到,文学在十字路口所处的位置。

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The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

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Now this is where the omniscient narrator comes in quite forcefully, and gives us something to work on as we analyze Haze and we think about who he is as a character and where he finds himself.

万能的叙述者就这样,富有说服力的出现了，同时在我们分析Haze的时候,给我们带来了问题,让我们去想这个角色到底是谁,他在哪里发现自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选