Why did you choose to study literature?

你为什么选择学文学？

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Hiss father sent him abroad to study literature.

他父亲送他出国去学文学。

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If you want to study literature, you must read the classics.

如果你要学习文学，就必须阅读经典作品。

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This isn't the last time this will happen during the course of the syllabus, our job is to bring out the implications for literature of texts that we read that don't have any direct bearing on literary study.

而且以后你们还会读到很多和文学没有关系的东西,在课程大纲里，我们的任务是,读懂文学的含义,但是课程里却又很多东西和文学无关。

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My major? Basically I study American literature... in English, studying literature from 1865 until now.

我的专业？我主要学习从1865年到现在的美国文学，以英语授课。

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As we'll learn from Jakobson next week, literature can be understood--or what he calls the study of literature, "poetics"--can be understood as a subfield of semiotics, but semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.

下周我们学雅各布森的时候也会看到，文学可以被理解为，诗学，即符号学的一个分支，但是符号学不是文学理论。

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But he had Dickens as bedtime reading, finished high school and went on to study literature at Swarthmore, where after a couple of suspensions he graduated with the best degree.

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My choices to study English Literature and Humanities at Valparaiso University, and then at their UK exchange programme in Cambridge, England, meant that I was more interested in learning and thinking than finding a job.

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Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.

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