“耶鲁学派”诗学的原创性贡献在于：根据自身的阅读经验，在反叛新批评、吸纳欧陆思潮的过程中，将研究的重心从文学批评的“科学性”、文学文本的“文学性”和文学史的“事实性”转移到了文学批评、文学文本和文学史的“生成性”之上，从而成功地开创了一种新的诗学研究范式：“生成诗学”。“耶鲁学派”之所以能做到这一点，根本的原因在于：在现代西方哲学的“语言学转向”和“时间哲学转向”的背景下，耶鲁文论家们凭着自身对文学语言和文学时间的错综复杂性的独特敏感，打破了西方文论和西方哲学单维度的思维定势，对语言的多维度和时间的多向度的本体属性作出了全方位的直观和领会，从而为自身的研究找到了新的理论基点。

The Yale School constructed a new mode of poetics research through its departure from the New Criticism and imbibitions of Continental thoughts, and its contribution to poetics lies in its generative poetics that shifts the focus of literary studies from the scientificalness of literary criticism, the literariness of literary texts and the factualness of literary history to the generation of literary criticism, literary text and literary history. The fundamental reason behind the Yale School's achievement lies in the fact that the Yale School theorists, under the context of linguistic turn and time philosophy turn in modern Western philosophy, with their distinctive sensitivity to the complexity of literary language and literary time, found a theoretical departure point in the one-dimensional thinking stereotype of Western literary theory and philosophy by taking a ontological perception of the multi-dimensional nature of literary language and the multi-orientational nature of time．