关键词: 严绍璗, 日本古代文学发生学, 比较文学方法论, 原典性的实证研究

Abstract: As a methodology to explore the historical and logical basis of the occurrence and development of things, Genetics has long been used by the academic community, but it seems that there is only Yan Shaodang who puts forward the concept of “Genetics of Comparative Literature” and makes a profound and unique interpretation of it in combination with the case of the generation of ancient literary works in Japan. The phenomenon of “variation” widely existing in the world literature requires researchers to break through the barrier of national consciousness, leap into the perspective of cross-national, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic interrelationship, and adopt the methodology of Comparative Literature Genetics to gain the understanding of its “unique” truth. Yan Shaodang, taking “positive research of primordial texts” as the methodology of the Genetics of Comparative Literature, requests to investigate the various “intermediate media” and the operating mechanism of “incorrect understanding” that caused literary variation in the cultural context, examine the reason of literary variants from the “described culture”, and find the truth of the “factual culture”.

Key words: Yan Shaodang, Genetics of ancient Japanese literature, methodology of comparative literature, positive research of primordial texts