“世界文学”的是是非非

Different Ideas about"World Literature"

这里所说的“世界文学”，不是德国诗人歌德在19世纪初向往的一种理想境界，它将各民族文学结合为一个综合体，而各民族将在这全球性的大合奏中演奏自己的声部；也不是指地球上各地区文学的总和；

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.