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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2018, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 29-38.

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The Autonomy of Literature and Literary Standards: A Study of Earl Miner's Methodology of Comparative Poetics

Ji Jianxun, Zhang Jianfeng   

  1. the Research Center of Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University the School of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University
  • Online:2018-01-25 Published:2018-10-19
  • About author:Ji Jianxun, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Research Center of Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University. His recent research interests focus on the theoretical and teaching aspects of Chinese comparative literature, and the relationship between Christian culture and Chinese literature. Zhang Jianfeng is a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University. His research interest focuses on comparative poetics.
  • Supported by:
    the Center for Urban Cultural Studies atShanghai Normal University, the Peak Disciplines of Universities in Shanghai Construction Program Funding for "ChineseLanguage and Literature", the Key Project of Social Sciences Foundation of China (14BZJ001), and the Pujiang ExcellentResearcher Awand Program from Shanghai Govermment (17PJC080)

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Abstract: The autonomy of literature and literary standard is of great significance for Earl Miner's comparative poetics research. The former is the presupposition of Earl Miner's system of comparative poetics, and the latter its basic standard. Departing from these, Miner draws a map for the literary and poetic tradition of the West and the East, thereby redefining the essence of literature and literary genres from a comparative perspective and expounding the cultural and historical factors that have led to the difference. Key to his system, Earl Miner's assumption of literature autonomy and abidance to the literary standard in literary studies are beneficial to current studies of literature, comparative literature, and comparative poetics.

Key words: Earl Miner, autonomy of literature, literary standard, intercultural comparative poetics, comparative literature