On the Study of Chinese and Western Comparative Poetics by Ye Weilian

Ye Weilian,a scholar,is a representative in the Chinese and western comparative poetics.His main achievement in this field is that by questioning the feasibility of putting the western literature theory directly into the Chinese literature study,he creatively proposed the theory Cultural Mode in order to pay close attention to the mutual reference and omission of Chinese and western cultures.He also made an active achievement in searching for the common law and establishing the theoretical structure of comparative literature discipline.The theory cultural mode presents an important research method to the development of comparative literature and poetics,showing the significance of methodology.Actually,it is the specification of basic theoretical characteristics of cross-civilization study,a Chinese comparative literature school,in the methodology.