文学研究的形态是多种多样的,可以从时间的角度来研究文学,也可以从空间的角度来研究文学,也许后者甚至比前者更为重要。从前的文学研究,无论中外,从时间的角度是通常的选择,因为人们总是从前天、昨天到今天、明天,一生中对于时间的感受是特别强烈的,并且人们总是有一种怀旧的倾向。而最近一百年以来在中国所兴起的文学地理学,则是一种新的进步与发展。文学地理学是由中国学者提出并正在努力建立的一门研究文学的新学科,也是中国学者 The forms of literature research are varied. They can study literature from a time perspective. They can also study literature from a space perspective. Perhaps the latter is even more important than the former. Literary studies of the past, both in China and abroad, are the usual choices from a time perspective because people always feel strongly about time from the day before yesterday to today, tomorrow, and life, and people always have a nostalgic tendency . The literary geography that emerged in China in the recent one hundred years is a new progress and development. Literature geography is proposed by Chinese scholars and is working hard to establish a new discipline of research literature, but also Chinese scholars