So, now, here's just a list for you: eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.

现在我给大家一张列表,上面列举了八项对纳博科夫非常重要的文学现代主义的特征。

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I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.

我觉得，这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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We're not going to be studying it necessarily for how important it was for Medieval and Early Modern Literature, for example.

也不会研究它,对于中世纪及早期现代文学的重要性，等等。

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Finally, I think it can be said that it's a poem whose deepest investmentis actually in Milton's mastery over the entire Western tradition of literature.

最后，我要说的是,这是一首弥尔顿对自身对于现代文学传统的,写作技巧苦心经营的诗。

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She's thinking about putting it on her book club, and--if any of you know anything getting on Oprah's Book Club makes your sales for the next 20 years.

她在考虑把你的书放到她的书友会里，如果你们中有人知道一些关于现代文学的事情的话,进入奥普拉书友会的书在,以后的二十年都会有好销路的。

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It makes it into a real literary object, sort of like a modernist text.

他们让这书像个真正的文学读本，像是种现代主义读本。

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This ambivalence that I'm describing is at the center of modern literature generally.

我所叙述的这种矛盾,是始终存在于现代文学的中心思想中的。

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Now as yet we haven't said anything about literature, and the fact is there is no hermeneutic art devoted to literature during the early modern period and for most of the eighteenth century.

到现在为止我们还没有讲到文学，在现代的早期和18世纪大部分时候,都没有任何关于文学的诠释学研究。

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At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

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All of this has to be yoked together in the imagery of a good poem, particularly of a metaphysical poem, and this model of complexity is what matters both for modern literature and for literary criticism.

一首好诗,的应该融合这些意象，尤其一首玄学诗，同时，这种复杂性,在现代文学,和文学批评中都十分重要。

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His terms are very much informed by a modernist sensibility of what literature is all about-- and I'm going to say more about what that is when I lecture on Lolita--but it's very much in contrast with that Ulysses ad. " Don't identify. It's not about you.

他的方式都是通过对文学的,现代主义式鉴赏来表达的,我在讲《洛丽塔》时会再详细说明,这和《尤利西斯》的广告有很大不同“,“无须认同，那与你无关，那是关于其他事情的”

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