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新时代现实主义文学研究
国际研讨会会议通知
我们生活在一个真实与虚拟既彼此依存又对峙交锋的时代，日新月异的互联网与虚拟科技不断提升人类感知外部世界和探究自我的阈限，挑战人们对真实的想象力；人类历史上也没有哪一个时期比当下更加渴望在千变万化、虚实难辨的人间万象中把握确凿可信、无可辩驳的真实。这种对真实的渴望与探索在文学研究领域经历过亚里士多德为诗歌超越历史真实性所作的论辩、奥尔巴赫勾画的西方文学摹仿论传统，也充分反映在世界各国现实主义文学作品中。在迈进新时代之际审视世界文坛，传统的欧美现实主义显然已经超越了原有的国别界限，疏离于 19 世纪欧洲资本主义文化的参符属性之外，在与新的社会现实、地域族群、文化思潮的碰撞洗礼中，被赋予了多重审美可能与丰富的时代话题，值得中外学者共同思考、切磋与交流。为此，南京大学当代外国文学与文化研究中心和南京大学外国语学院将共同主办“新时代现实主义文学研究国际研讨会”。本次研讨会坚持以历史唯物论和辩证唯物论为引领，秉承开放包容的理念，坚持中西互学互鉴、平等文化交流的立场，围绕现实主义文学在西方与中国的影响与建树、对世界文学的塑形、比较研究、相关理论争鸣、伦理问题等议题展开深入讨论。诚邀国内外从事文学研究的专家、学者参加。现将有关事项通知如下：
一、会议日期：2018 年 10 月 26 日-28 日
二、会议地点：南京大学鼓楼校区
三、会议主要议题（但不限于此）：
战后现实主义
1、国外现实主义文学的发展
2、中国现实主义文学的发展
3、虚幻现实主义
4、现实主义与族裔文学
5、新现实主义
现实主义诗学
6、现实主义与现代性
7、现实主义与反现实主义
8、现实主义与物质主义
9、现实主义与人文主义/后人文主义
10、现实主义与伦理批评
11、现实主义与生态批评
中外现实主义文学互动
12、批判现实主义在中国
13、社会主义现实主义的演变
14、魔幻现实主义在中国的接受
15、中国现实主义文学在国外的传播与接受
四、会议语言：英文与中文
五、会议报名及时间安排：
6 月 30 日前向会务组（联系人：李冬娥；邮箱：yuanyz_2003@126.com）提
交会议回执(含约 500 字的论文摘要）
2018 年 9 月 1 日：会务组组织专家评审后，通过电子邮箱发送邀请函
2018 年 10 月 26 日：报到（南京新纪元大酒店一楼）
26 日下午 5：00 会前招待会
2018 年 10 月 27—28 日：学术研讨
2018 年 10 月 28 日 下午：离会
六、住宿：
南京新纪元大酒店（地址：南京市中山路 251-1；电话：025-8681222）
七、会务费：教师 1000 元；非在职研究生 500 元。
交通及食宿自理。
八、会务组联系方式：
联系人：李冬娥
电子信箱：yuanyz_2003@126.com
通讯地址：南京市仙林大道 163 号 南京大学外国语学院 邮编：210023
南京大学当代外国文学与文化研究中心
南京大学外国语学院
2018 年 1 月 10 日
Reproducing and Reconstructing Reality:
International Conference on Realism(s)
in Post-WWII Literature
Nanjing, China
October 26-28, 2018
Living in an era dominated by documentaries, reality TV shows, first-person narratives like autobiographies, memoirs, etc., we have a burning thirst for reality as David Shields boldly declares in his 2010 Reality Hunger. Not surprisingly, this shared longing for reality, despite a dazzling amount of reality-based media as well as many other cultural and literary products around the world, is also intellectually registered by a resurgent interest in realism in the past decade. Emerging from an imperative to revisit, reassess and reconfigure the variables and potential of the allegedly outworn 19th century literary concept as the realism/ modernism divide subsided and a post-anthropocentric shift to materialism invites an expanded vision on a longer time-scale, an impressive scholarship of realism has risen including Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realism (2013), Alison Shonkwiler’s Reading Capitalist Realism (2014) and The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction (2017), to name just a few, and not to mention Novel’s 2016 special issue on Worlding Realisms and MLQ’s 2012 special issue on Peripheral Realism.
Yet admittedly, it is one thing to agree on realism’s current purchase on the critical agenda, but quite another to decide what it means by the term realism or realist. The answer if any, given by the editors of Worlding Realisms who build their argument on the world literature model structured by Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova, lodges a frontal attack to “the autarkic creatures of London and Paris” in the 19th century by radically worlding the term as “a transnational medium shot through with aesthetic possibility” (Goodlad). In 20th century China, the idea of realism or rather, critical realism as a transported catchphrase from the 1930s-60s Marxist criticism championed by Georg Lukacs, established its aesthetically renovative and politically progressive reputation in Chinese critics’ and readers’ cultural encounters with Charles Dickens, Balzac, Thackeray, the Brontë sisters et al. But the moment of eureka with realism so far as contemporary Chinese writers are concerned was not reached until China adopted its opening policy in the late 1970s and early 80s when the Latin American Boom stroke a reverberating albeit belated note to awaken the counterparts in China to a new possibility of realism, i.e. Magic Realism. The most prominent and heavyweight Chinese writers of today, like Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Yan Lianke, Ge Fei, Ma Yuan and many more acknowledge their indebtedness to Garcia Marquez, Luis Borges, Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes et al in their formative years as budding writers.
China’s cross-cultural encounter with realism and its permutated variants in the 20th century does not stand as a case in isolation. It has to be approached in a broader context of post-WWII revival of realism. In Britain, critics such as Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge believe that liberal realism features much of English literature after the 1950s, which runs in parallel to the French existentialist fiction and American Jewish moral realism embodied in Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud. The crossroads dilemma facing the postwar British writers between conventional realism and experimentation turns out to occasion the emergence of “the crossover fiction” which freely sources from different literary conventions and techniques on the market of literature. The general academic attitude is increasingly in favor of the merging between the mimetic impulse with postmodern techniques and variously frames it as “self-conscious realism” (Byatt), “experimental realism” (Gasiorek), “postmodern realism” (Alias), etc. The derivative naming reveals a significant fact about the developmental mutation of realism after WWII when the realistic impetus inspired writers as diverse as French avant-gardist Alan-Robbe Grille who advocated a pathbreaking new realism in the 1960s, or the Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan whose mesmerizing mingling of folk tales, history and contemporary life was encapsulated by the Swedish Academy as “hallucinatory realism”. Almost in response to realisms of all descriptions that compete for academic attention, umbrella terms like neo- or postmodern realism are created supposedly to facilitate a periodic understanding of the term, but oftentimes compound the issue by incorporating elements new or not so new which seems to undermine the whole concept of realism altogether.
It is at this moment that a reevaluation of the poetics of realism by both charting its contour from the origin and expatiating its renewed vitality on a global scale entails a new sense of urgency. A host of questions must be addressed for an encompassing study of issues related to realism: To what extent does the ethical values embodied by the characters, interrogated by the ambivalent author, and imbibed or challenged by the reader in the literary realism of the new era live up to or eschew the realist commitment to moral edification? If we accept Fredric Jameson’s interpretation of realism as “seeing things, [and] finding out things, that have not been registered before”, how does the artist’s mimetic stance interact with his natural desire for constructiveness or the blurred borders in between speak for the essential lure of literary registration? It is against this background that an international conference on realism in post-WWII is being organized at Nanjing University, China. We are very sincere to invite you to take part in this event, and enjoy the intellectually stimulating and culturally enriching experience.
Topics (suggested but not restricted to the following):
I. Cultural Encounters
The travel of critical realism (Dickens, Balzac, Gorky, etc.)
Permutations of socialist realism
The reception of Magic Realism in China
Chinese realistic literature in the world
II. Post-1945 Realism(s) in Literature
Diversity of realism
Hallucinatory realism
The return of realism after postmodernism
Realistic literature in different parts of the world
III. Poetics of Realism
Ethics and realism
Mimetic stance vs. constructiveness
Modes of representation
Realism and truth
Realism and humanism/posthumanism
Realism and ecocriticism
Organizers:
Center for the Study of Contemporary Foreign Literature and Culture
School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University
Conference Venue:
Gulou Campus of Nanjing University
Working Language:
English and Chinese
Accommodation:
New Era Hotel
251-1 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing
0086-25-86812222
www.newerahotel.com
Registration Fee:
The conference registration fee is US$150. The registration fee covers conference attendance on October 26-28, 2018 and related events including the pre-conference reception, lunches and dinners during the conference.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Due
June 30, 2018
Conference:
October 26-28 (Friday to Sunday), 2018
Contact Us:
Professor XU Lei
Email: xu_lei@nju.edu.cn; xubud@sina.com
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