文学研究贵在独辟蹊径,发前人之未所识;而开一门学科之宗,创一家学说之先,则更是令人肃然起敬的学术成就。南京大学中文系教授杨正润先生的《传记文学史纲》(江苏教育出版社1994)便可称得上这样一部开创性的学术专著。作者针对东西方传 Literary studies are unique in their own ways, but they are not known to the forefathers. To open a discipline and create a doctrine first is even more awe-inspiring academic achievement. The history of biographical literature (Jiangsu Education Press, 1994) by Professor Yang Zhengrun, a professor of Chinese Studies at Nanjing University, can be called such a groundbreaking academic monograph. The author is aimed at the East and the West