it's already taught as classic literature in American universities

但早在一战以前它就作为标准文学在美国高校讲授
before the war; it's already classic.

的确非常经典
So, now, here's just a list for you:

这儿有一个清单
eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.

上面列出了纳博科夫认为非常重要的八个文学现代主义的特征
Eight features of literary modernism:

八个文学现代主义的特征
An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy,

着迷于艺术的自治性
the idea that art is its own law,

认为艺术自成完整的法则
that it responds to no other laws,

它不受任何其他法则干扰
that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

艺术除了艺术本身没有其他目的
In other words, art for art's sake.

换句话说为了艺术而创作
That's Eliot's autotelic poem.

这就是艾略特的自成诗
The only purpose of the work of art is to afford aesthetic bliss.

艺术作品的唯一目的就是提供审美愉悦