FURTHER DISCUSSION ON “COMPARATIVE LITERATURE” AND THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Abstract

Nowadays, the wave of globalization has influenced every field, encouraging the extension of the domestic literature which was previously confined within their philosophy to the global literature. Through the interdimensional exchange of cultural products via publication and translation, several trends of writing, authors, and literary works were widespread. This circumstance also brings various non-literary effects of other art forms into the literature, which deepens the internal relationships of literary dynamics in their own country while forming new relationships between the literature and other cultural elements. These relationships might be well analyzed and researched by Comparative literature (Littérature comparée). East Asian countries such as China and Japan, whose cultures are representatives of the continent’s culture and are ”bridgeheads” of the East-West interaction, can be considered note-worthy cases in the history of World Literature, particularly in the history of Comparative Literature. This essay affirms the significance of Comparative Literature and focuses on tracing the formation and development of this literary research field in China.