Are they abandoned?

他们是被放弃
Are they embellished?

被夸张
Are they stretched?

被吹嘘
Are they rejected?

还是被抵触
What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed

而帮助那些伟大的现代主义作家
language with so powerfully earlier in the century?

润饰语言的元素又都跑到哪里去了
So there are formal questions that we will take up time and again.

我们将不断重复地讨论这些关于形式的问题
There are questions that intersect between the form and the content in

有些问题则介于形式和内容之间
every single novel that we read.

并在每本我们将要研究的小说中出现
Now perhaps those of you who like to read fiction, and especially who

如果各位当中有喜欢读虚构小说的
like to read fiction from this period,

尤其是来自这段时期的小说的
will look down at that syllabus and you'll say, "Well, where is?"

看到我列的书单或许会说 "怎么没有"