And today I'm going to suggest two--actually, well, yes two additional contexts that we can look to, to read the novel.
今天我想为你们提供两种参考方案,事实上是,两种额外理解小说语境的方法。
Yet, it's something very important, as we would want to know in any play or novel or movie.
但这之间有些很重要的环节,就像我们想要欣赏任何表演,小说或电影时,会想深入发掘一般。
We see novel things all the time and if we were not capable of learning and making guesses, educated guesses, about these novel things we would not be able to survive.
我们经常会碰到新事物,如果我们不能学习,不能猜测,不能纠正对新事物猜测,我们就无法生存。
There are questions that intersect between the form and the content in every single novel that we read.
在我们要读的每本小说里,形式和内容之间都存在类似的问题。
I don't know what that dream we're going to dream together is when we read that novel. I don't know what that'll be.
我不知道当我们一起读那部小说的时候,我们将会一起做个什么样的梦,我不知道。
How should we integrate that kind of novel with novels that have more formal ambitions?
我们如何整合这种小说和那些,在形式目标上更明确的小说?
What do we look at when we read this novel, and what do we see?
我们在读的时候在看什么?,看到了什么?
What kind of novel do we see if we attend to those scenes?
在仔细研究这些场景的时候,我们会如何认识这本小说?
Now you do have an opportunity-- this class does- that my class has never had before, and that is to nominate your own novel for the last one that we read, one of your choice.
现在你真的有了个机会-,在我的课上有了个机会-,去推荐一本小说作为我们的最后一本读物,你们自己的选择。
So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.
那么,你们读到的是死去的孩子,变成石头的孩子,着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。
And so, sometimes people approach it in that way, and I think in a way it holds that aura around itself in our culture and in the history of the novel in this period that we're studying together.
有时候人确实这样,我觉得这在一定程度上倒是保留了文化的气氛,以及我们学习的,关于小说这段时期的历史。
Now, I want to ask a question that we're going to need to think about, the two of you sitting up front here, when I was asking you how you responded to it. Can we have a moral response to this novel?
现在,我想要问你们一个我们将要思考的问题,就你们俩吧,坐在前面的,当我问你们如何回应,我们可以对这部小说有一个道德反思吗?
I want to suggest to you that he did that because a woman is expected to occupy certain conventional roles at this moment, and we see her in one at the very beginning of the novel.
因为在这个时代,女人是被要求扮演,一定的传统角色的,我们在小说的一开始就看到了她。
So, with these questions in mind, I want you think about how we can see the novel and how we can think about it in the face of the interpretation that's already layered on to it.
所以,带着这些问题,我想让你们想一下,在已经有解释的情况下,我们应该如何去看,如何去思考这部小说?
So right in the packaging of this novel that we have today this cover has changed over time nevertheless, even today, that very Catholic iconography is right on the front of the cover.
所以对于我们的这本书,虽然封面随着时间一直在改变,但是即使是今天,天主教的肖像画依然,出现在了封面的中央。
So, finish the novel for next Wednesday, and we will go from there.
所以,在下周三之前把书读完,我们到时候接着说。
And so, my lectures on Flannery O'Connor will highlight the methodologies that we can bring to any reading of a novel, and it will highlight the differences between different methodologies and what they allow us to see in a different text.
所以,我关于她的讲座会重点,强调我们可以用在阅读小说中的方法,不同方法间的差异,以及这些方法对于一篇不同的文本,会让我们明白什么。
This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."
这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏,就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“
It is really going to give you a whole packaged reading of Franny and Zooey.We have just the one day on this novel, and what I'm going to be doing for you is modeling the way literary critics use evidence to advance an argument.
实际上,我从整体上全面的给你们讲解这部小说,关于这部小说我们只有一天的时间,我将要做的是为你们建立起,文学评论家使用例子来论证的模式。
This is going to be an important question for us as we think about what happens to Lolita over the course of the novel.
这将是除了《Lolita》的内容外,在我们分析Lolita的际遇时的很重要的问题。
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