曹顺庆教授的新著忡外比较文论史》出版了（山东教育出版社I％8年2月），这是文论研究界与比较文学研究界的一件大事。因为它是国内第一部熔世界各文化圈的文论于一炉，打破中西两极比较而转向总体文学似的全方位比较，并且于东西文论纵向的历史发展中认真探寻和总结人类文学理 Professor Cao Shunqing’s book “The History of Comparative Literature and Art” was published (Shandong Education Press, February 1980). This is a major event in the field of literary theory and comparative literature. Because it is the first comprehensive literary theory in various cultural circles in the world, breaking the omnibearing comparison between the two poles of the whole world and turning to the overall literature, and also earnestly explores and summarizes the development of human literature in the historical development of the east and west literary traditions