A “New Study” With 70 Year’s History - A SHORT HISTORIC SURVEY, PRESENT SITUATION AND TASK OF FUTURE OF JAPANESE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Abstract

This article briefly introduce the reception of the comparative literature concept in Meiji era, and the history of the Japan’s comparative literature research after the Second World War. Also described here are the present research situation in Japan, and the uniqueness of Japan’s comparative literature studies. Finally, the major cause of why the main stream comparative literature research in Japan is a so called “influence research”, is one of the key featured elements.

Keywords

• the history of japanese comparative literature
• influence research
• parallel comparison