and here's when we start to move in to the realm of The Human Stain.

这就是我们会谈论《人性的污秽》的原因
In the 1990s, there was a very lively and

在19世纪90年代学术界内
often acrimonious debate

理性的时事评论员之间
in academia

爆发了一场很引人注目的
and among intellectual commentators

充满激烈言辞的辩论
about whether literature was the purveyor of ideology,

关于文学作品是否能承担意识形态
political ideology.

政治意识形态
So, the question is, does literature have a message that

问题就是文学作品是否试图向我们
it's trying to tell us?

传达过这样的信息
And one way to think about this is to think about English 125,

一种做法就是考虑一下英语125
major British poets, the picture of what the old-fashioned

主要的英国诗人看起来像是作家
canon might look like.

过时了的真作