Abstract: In addition to “literariness” in the aesthetic sense, the essential property of literary research also includes the inclusiveness and integration of knowledge from different disciplines, as literature has an inherent omnipresence of human activity and knowledge. The study of literature should adhere to “literariness” in the aesthetic sense, but it should neither be servile to aesthetic conventions to disregard the “interdisciplinarity” between literature and other disciplines, nor reject multidisciplinary interaction and communication. Even in the context of the modern academic system, in which the division of disciplines has been more and more meticulous and consummate, literary studies should still adhere to the multidisciplinary synthesis of knowledge production and the rich diversity of research methods, while maintaining its inherent literariness and aesthetics. Not only is literary research always inseparable from interdisciplinary interaction and communication based on interdisciplinarity, but upgrading, expanding, and deepening the interdisciplinary and even “supra-disciplinary” research is indeed an important way to innovate the concept and methodology of our study on Chinese and foreign literature in this “Internet-globalization” era.

Key words: interdisciplinary literary studies, interdisciplinarity, literariness, aesthetics