讲座题目：Historical novel: tradition and anxiety
主讲人：Péter Hajdu（匈牙利佩奇大学教授，匈牙利科学院学术顾问）
主持人：乔国强教授
时间：2014年12月29日（周一）13:30—15:00
地点：松江校区五教楼126教室
内容简介：
Historical novels make up a strange genre that challenges post-modern literary theories about fictionality and possible worlds. Even if we read them intertextually, i.e. in comparison with non-fictional texts, namely historical sources or historiography, it is hard to get rid of the impression that they try to tell what really happened. Post-modern metafiction tried to drastically deconstruct such ideas, which makes us inclined to read older (not post-modern) historical novels also as theoretical essays on historicity. It is obvious that historical novels are less about the past than the present, but it is hardly a too daring hypothesis that in ages of anxiety the interest in the past usually grows. The boom of historical television series show a delicate balance of necessary anachronism and defamiliarization, which makes the audience face the radical otherness of the past.
主讲人简介：
Péter Hajdu (1966, Budapest, Hungary) is academic advisor at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, also professor at University of Pécs, Hungary, and the managing editor of Neohelicon, a major international journal on comparative literature studies. Member of advisory board of two international journals on literary studies. He did extended research in the fields of comparative literature, theory of literature, and classical philology. From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the ICLA''''s Research Committee for East- and South-East Europe, between 2002 and 2012 he was the secretary of its Hungarian National Committee, 2008-2014 he was member of the standing research committee for literary theory, and since 2010 member of the ICLA Executive Council. He lectured at various universities in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, PR China, Japan and Taiwan. He has published 6 books and more than 100 papers.
His most important publications in comparative literature:
“The memory of national literature in Budapest city centre.” Neohelicon 41, 2014/1, 27−42.
“Linear Narrative-Did It ever Exist? : Traditional narratives read as fragmentary vs. fractured post-colonial ones read as linear.” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 33, 2013/3, 155-163.
“On the Ethnic Border: The Image of Slovaks in the Writings of the Modern Hungarian Authors Mikszáth, Krúdy, and Márai.” In Neubauer–Cornis-Pope ed., History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe. Vol. 4., Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010, 527–538.
“The Image of the Turk in Hungarian Historical Novels.” In Balkan Literatures in the Era of Nationalism, ed. Murat Belge & Jale Parla, Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2009, 53−64.
“Anomalies of Identity: Translations of the Roman Classics in Hungary.” In Eduardo F. Coutinho ed., Beyond Binarisms. 1. Discontinuities and Displacements: Studies in Comparative Literature. Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano, 2009, 399–404.
“Fighting nature: The example of two Hungarian short story writers” Neohelicon 36, 2009/2: 311–320.
