比较文学自1827年法国学者维勒曼创立以来,至今才一百多年,但这门学科的发展相当迅速,它在当今的文学研究中占有极为重要的地位。随着它的研究领域的扩展,比较文学实际上已经超出了文学内部比较的范围,涉及到艺术及其他文化现象。美国学者亨利·雷马克指出:比较文学应“研究文学与其他知识和信仰的领域之间的关系,包括艺术(绘画、雕刻、建筑、音乐)、哲学、历史、社会科学(如政治学、经济学、社会学)、自然科学、宗教等之间的关系。简言之,是一种文学和另一种或多种文学的比较,同时也是文学与其他人类各种思想 Comparative Literature Since its founding in 1827, the French scholar Weilerman has been more than a century old, but its development has been quite rapid. It occupies an extremely important place in today’s literature. As its field of study expands, comparative literature has actually gone beyond the comparative dimensions of literature, dealing with the arts and other cultural phenomena. American scholar Henry Remark points out that comparative literature should "study the relationship between literature and other fields of knowledge and belief, including art (painting, sculpture, architecture, music), philosophy, history, social sciences Science, sociology), natural sciences, religions, etc. In short, it is a comparison between one kind of literature and another or more kinds of literature, as well as literature and other human thoughts