Abstract:
Center for Foreign Literature and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510420, ChinaGoethe on the relationship between humans and the world with deep insight who always studies literature by comparison methodal from a higher organic whole recognize its uniqueness and explore its universality.And from his discourse and practice about influence, intertextuality, themes, motifs and comparison, we find it's contact with the basic ideas of literature, research methods and core research areas of comparative literature and understand profoundly that Goethe called "Weltliteratur" as the basis of comparative literature is current the "world Literature"paradigm, "verselbsten"and "entselbstigen" is a figurative representation of its meaning.