a beautiful, whole, consistent, internally structured literary object

创作一部优美完整连贯的文学作品的能力
that stands outside of history in a certain way, that is autonomous.

作品某种程度上不能依赖于历史而是独立自治的
And so, this view of the artwork-- probably you have

这种赏析艺术作品的角度
experienced it if you've taken other English classes,

如果你上过其他英语课也许你已经了解过这个了
and in fact I've been producing it for you in my readings--

实际上在我的阅读课上我已经慢慢向你们介绍这个
this mode of reading looks for those tropes that unify a work.

这种形式的阅读是在寻找联结整部作品的比喻
It looks for that circularity that I've described

寻找这一章中我提到过的
in this little chapter, tracks the symbols.

反复出现的作为象征的意象
There's more to it than that.

除此之外还有更多
It also looks for ambiguity.

它同样寻找一种模糊的东西
O'Connor says about her symbols that they should "keep on deepening,"

奥康纳说过她的那些象征应该"继续深入"
that they should never be reduced to a simple equation, X equals Y,

决不能被简单地作等式比如X等于Y