is that writers have consistently been located in universities.

作家始终都呆在大学里
They have been trained at universities;

他们在大学里接受专门培训
they have taught at universities; they have gone to creative writing

他们在大学里教书
programs embedded within universities;

他们加入了依托于大学的写作社
they have held visiting positions; they've done readings;

他们担任客座职位他们有丰富的阅读经历
and they have written books whose primary readership is

他们写书而且书的主要读者群
around a seminar table or in a lecture hall like this.

都是在研讨会或者像这样的课堂上
His argument is that a kind of formal structure,

他认为一种形式化的文体
characterized by the principle of unity,

由一致性原理确定的文体
a formal structure that was, in that simplified version,

简单地说
that was at the very heart of the most powerful critical movement

是二十世纪早期最伟大的批评运动的核心
of the early twentieth century, and that is the New Criticism.

即新批评运动