The Collective in the Narrative

外国语学院学术研讨

 

Topic:The Collective in the Narrative

 

Speaker: Péter Hajdu (Professor, Chief Editor of Neohelicon)

 

Venue: 210, Chongyuan Building, Home Campus, Soochow University

 

 

Time: 3:30-5:00 pm, 18 April, 2019

 

Introduction

This is an investigation of the narratology of the collective. Narratology has shown vivid interest in collectives in the last one or two decades, whose interest covered collective agents of the story, collective action and collective narration. After surveying narratological findings in such areas the lecture will end with the possibilities of representing community in narrative, partly using Palmer’s notion of the social mind, partly referring to Central-European narrative traditions of staging community attitudes. The lecture will also touch upon how to participate in and contribution to international scholarship.

 

Speaker Profile

Péter Hajdu is a senior fellow of the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the chief editor of Neohelicon, a major international journal on comparative literature studies. He is a member of advisory board of three international journals on literary studies. He does extensive research in the fields of comparative literature, theory of literature, and classical philology. He has published 6 books and more than 100 papers.

 

 

School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University