每年宣传的文学体裁都不同，今年这一届是主要讲自传文学的。

This edition is dedicated to (auto)biographies, as each year a different genre is being profiled and popularized.

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文章以法国卢梭的《忏悔录》和美国的《邓肯自传》为例，扼要考察了西方自传文学的重要品质；

Citing Jean Rousseaus Resconfessions and American Autobiography of Duncan, the paper explores the qualities of western autobiographic literature;

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自传以短篇在报纸连载，不是文学杰作，但因其大部材料的寻常却更为感人。

Written in short lengths for newspaper serialization, the autobiography is not a literary masterpiece, but it is the more impressive because of the commonplaceness of much of its material.

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It probably is at least in part, but mainly it is probably intended to be fiction or fictionalized biography.

最少一部分是，可是结果大相径庭,大篇都是虚构或文学小说化了的自传。

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I think we can make the mistake, thinking about autobiography, that it's somehow not literary. But in fact it's very literary, and part of what makes it literary is the fact that you have to choose what scenes go into that narrative.

我觉得我们可以犯这个错误，想想自传，从某种程度上说它不是文学，但事实上它很文学,其中一个原因是你选择加入叙述的那些场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选