Our writer for today thinks so highly of that capacity of literature to embody the human voice that he imagines a whole religious world around him.

我们今天的作者高度赞赏文学的容量,能使人的声音具体化，以致他,想象出了一个宗教的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The author may have been looking out of the window, but literature, as we encounter it and as a text, is not looking out of the window.

作者可能往窗外看过了，但是文学上，我们遇到它时并且在它作为一个文本时，并不需要往窗外看。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of them was a writer named William Harper who wrote a book called Memoir Slavery in 1837 or '38.

其中一位作者名叫威廉.哈珀,他于1837或38年著过《奴役实录》

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选