斯蒂芬·欧文在哈佛大学是东亚系和比较文学系两系的教授,他的著作中虽然总是有“比较文学”的成分,他却很少专门去写比较文学。《迷楼》(Mi-Lou:Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire,Harvard University Press,1989)是迄今为止的唯一一本。在这本书里,他指出,诗歌都是存在于一定的历史语境之中的,但同时历史又是有一定的自由度的,这就为比较文学提供了可能。在中国没有进入现代社会以前,中国和西方没有互相联系的历史语境,所 Stephen Owen is a professor of two department at East Asian Department and Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Although his compositions always contain “comparative literature”, he rarely sells comparative literature. Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire, Harvard University Press, 1989) is by far the only one. In this book, he pointed out that poetry exists in a certain historical context, but at the same time, history has certain degree of freedom, which provides the possibility for comparative literature. Before China entered the modern world, China and the West did not have any historical context linked to each other