莫使“泛滥”必“成灾”

Little Leaks Sink the Ship

孟华教授在发言中强调，比较文学只是一门非常边缘和精英的学科，这是非常要紧的和切中时弊的意见。以我本人的治学经历，也许更能体会这种说法的重要性。我此生本来惟以“思想”二字为尚。

Editor s Note: The second 'PKU-FDU Comparative Literature Symposium' was held in Fu Dan University on November 25 and 26, 2003. The experts of comparative literature from these two schools discussed the course limit and identity of comparative literature, the relationship between comparative literature and world literature, and up-to-date tendencies in the development of this course. On the basis of the last symposium, they continued the questions of the selection of necessary books for the students of this course, of teaching patterns, of the operation of the communication between these two schools in this field and the creation of their own home pages, etc. During the meeting, all the teachers from the Institute of Comparative Literature of Beijing University met the graduate students from Fu Dan University, answering their questions about the course characteristics and the interaction of teachers and students in comparative literature class. Some speeches and the booklist selected at this meeting will be published in this magazine in two issues.