《比较文学：东方与西方》由四川大学比较文学研究所主办，为国内外公开出版发行的学术集刊，并与世界主要图书馆和大学图书馆交流。本集刊主要刊登有关文学研究、中西比较文学与文化研究的英文学术论文。全书包括全球透析和透析中国两部分组成，其内容主要包括《Remarks from the Editor》《Bassnett's struggle: With whom does she struggle? For what does she struggle?》《The Focus of Comparative Literature in the World Has Shifted to China》《A Study of American Critical Humanism: Irving Babbitt, Lionel Trilling and Edward Said》等。

CRITIQUE OF SUSAN BASSNETT'S "REFLECTIONS"

 CAO Shunqing

Remarks from the Editor

 BASSNETT Susan

Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century

 FOKKEMA Douwe

Susan Bassnett's Unnecessary Struggle

 IBSCH Elrud

Bassnett's Quixotian Fight: Reading Note on: Susan Bassnett, "Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century."

 CAO Shunqing, WANG Lei

Failed Prediction and Outdated Prescription

 SUN Jingyao & DUAN Jing

Bassnett's struggle: With whom does she struggle? For what does she struggle?

 WANG Ning

The Crisis of Comparative Literature and the Rise of Worl'd Literature

 WANG Xiangyuan

The Focus of Comparative Literature in the World Has Shifted to China

COMPARATIVE POETICS

 LIU Yan

The Imagists' Misinterpretation of Classical Chinese Poetics

 DUAN Lian

Yiqu: Implied Meaning and Its Conceptualization--A Comparative Approach to Chinese Poetics from Chinese and Western Perspectives

 LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT

 DUAN Junhui

A Study of American Critical Humanism: Irving Babbitt, Lionel Trilling and Edward Said

 XIANG Lin

Post-War American Intellectuals and Public Space: A Case Study of

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

ETHNIC LITERATURE

 GUO Rong

Political Unconsciousness: Reading Yan Geling's The Ninth Widow

 LIU Yi

Resistance, Absorption, Hybridity and Reconstruction: On Chinese-American

Culture in Chinese-American Women Writers' Literary Texts

 LI Dian

In the Remains of Theory: Ethical Criticism in Contemporary Literary

Studies

TRANSLATION STUDIES

 REN Wen

Deconstructing Liaison Interpreters' Invisibility

 HU Minxia

On Building Expertise in Simultaneous Interpreting

 HUANG Wenjuan

On the Significance of Extra-linguistic Preparation of Interpreting

 XIA Hao

A Case Study on Rhetorical Vagueness in Press Conference Interpreting

 YANG Yuhong

Working with Assumptions--the Dialogue Interpreter as Communication Facilitator in Medical Encounters

EDITOR'S NOTES