Well, one thing that a literary argument can do is take something small like this and try to give an account for it, so that's what I'm going to do.

好了，文学争论能对向这样小细节,进行描写说明，所以，我现在要做的是。

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That's the structure of any good literary argument.

任何好的文学讨论的结构都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's a wonderfully compressed argument in which the Soul and the Heart make competing claims for Christianity and classical and literary wisdom.

这里压缩的争论很精彩,其中心和灵魂关于基督教义和,古典的文学的智慧提出相对立的主张。

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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It is really going to give you a whole packaged reading of Franny and Zooey.We have just the one day on this novel, and what I'm going to be doing for you is modeling the way literary critics use evidence to advance an argument.

实际上，我从整体上全面的给你们讲解这部小说,关于这部小说我们只有一天的时间，我将要做的是为你们建立起,文学评论家使用例子来论证的模式。

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