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英译汉竞赛原文:The Posteverything

Generation

I never expected to gain any new

insight into the nature of my generation,

or the changing landscape of American

colleges, in Lit Theory. Lit Theory is

supposed to be the class where you sit at

the back of the room with every other

jaded sophomore wearing skinny jeans,

thick-framed glasses, an ironic tee-shirt

and over-sized retro headphones, just

waiting for lecture to be over so you can

light up a Turkish Gold and walk to lunch

while listening to Wilco. That’s pretty

much the way I spent the course, too:

through structuralism, formalism, gender

theory, and post-colonialism, I was far too

busy shuffling through my Ipod to see

what the patriarchal world order of

capitalist oppression had to do with Ethan

Frome. But when we began to study

postmodernism, something struck a

chord with me and made me sit up and

look anew at the seemingly blasé

college-aged literati of which I was so

self-consciously one.

According to my textbook, the

problem with defining postmodernism is

that it’s impossible. The difficulty is that

it post. It defines itself so

negatively against what came before it

– naturalism, romanticism and the wild

revolution of modernism – that it’s

sometimes hard to see what it actually is.

It denies that anything can be explained

neatly or even at all. It is parodic,

detached, strange, and sometimes

menacing to traditionalists who do not

understand it. Although it arose in the

post-war west (the term was coined in

1949), the generation that has witnessed

its ascendance has yet to come up with

an explanation of what postmodern

attitudes mean for the future of culture

or society. The subject intrigued me

because, in a class otherwise consumed

by dead-letter theories, postmodernism

remained an open book, tempting to the

young and curious. But it also intrigued

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