《简约不简单：美国"极简主义"文学研究》是在比较文学视野下，从作家和作品介绍、美学特征和叙事特点、人物特色、作家的人文关怀、叙事的演变几个方面对"极简主义"进行了较为全面系统的研究，并且分析了"极简主义"于八十年代在美国盛行一时之后逐渐趋于式微的原因，具有较强的学术新意和较高的学术价值。(The book Simplicity but not Simpleness: from the perspective of comparative literature vision, Literary Research on American "Minimalism" gives a comparatively comprehensive and systematic research on "minimalism" from introduction to authors and their works, aesthetic characteristics and narrative features, personalities, humanistic care of authors and narrative evolution, and also analyzes the reason why the "minimalism" gradually tends to decline after prevailing for a time in the 1980s in America which is of strong academic originality and high academic value.)