The lady's refusal to drink of Comus' cup was just the first of Milton's attempts to bring the action of ingestion to the very center of a literary work.

拒绝司酒宴之神的杯子的女士,是弥尔顿第一次尝试把摄取食物的行动,注入到文学作品的中心去。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's neither in the text nor in the reader but the result of the negotiation back and forth between the text and the reader, he says, that sort of brings the literary work into existence in a virtual space.

它不在文本中，也不在读者的视域中,而在反复阅读文本和读者的视域之中，他说，那样会把文学作品,放到一个虚拟的空间中去。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But in any event, Deuteronomy is not simply the concluding book of the Pentateuch, ; or the story that began in Genesis; it's also the first part of a much larger, longer literary work, as I mentioned last time, a work that runs from Deuteronomy through to the end of 2 Kings.

但无论如何，《申命记》不是摩西五经的终结篇，或者说是自《创世纪》开始的故事;,它也是一部更宏观长远的作品的开篇，我上节课提到过，这部作品从《申命记》一直到《列王记》结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I can only imagine though, at this point in the semester, what will become Milton's eventual championing of marriage is pretty hard to imagine, in part because we're just devoting our second class to a literary work given almost entirely to the virtue of chastity.

然而我只能认为，在学期的这个时候，什么将成为弥尔顿婚姻的最终捍卫者,一定难以想象，一部分是因为,我们的第二节课一直在讨论,关于贞洁的美德的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is a work comparable in scope to other literary masterworks Hamlet, Don Quixote, War and Peace, others you might think of.

本书的文学范畴,能与其它的巨著相提并论,诸如《哈姆雷特》，《唐吉诃德》,《战争与和平》或其它你想得到的大作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There's a wonderful work of literary criticism -- I mentioned it last time --on Milton's indebtedness to Spenser in the book by John Guillory called Poetic Authority.

有一篇很棒的文学评论-,上次我提到了--关于弥尔顿对Spenser的感激,在约翰·久乐锐所著《诗人权威》中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选