世界,确切地说我们这个世界,至少从1914年以来始终处于持久的危机状态之中。大约从同一时候起,文学研究界也一直纠缠于方法的纷争,只是不那么激烈,而且是悄然地进行着罢了。甚至在此之前,十九世纪学界原有的肯定态度、虔信对一切事实的积累(希望用事实的砖块来建造巍峨的学识金字塔)、相信对自然科学模式的随便解释,就受到了意大利的克罗齐(croce)、德国的狄尔泰(Dilthy)诸人的尖锐挑战。因此不能夸口说,独有今年例外,或者说文学界的危机已经找到了答案,甚至已趋向暂时的缓和。不过,本届大会名人 The world, indeed, our world, has always been in a state of lasting crisis, at least since 1914. From about the same time onwards, the literary research community has been entangled in the dispute of the method, only less fiercely, and quietly carried on. Even before that, the original affirmative attitude of the academic circles in the nineteenth century, the accumulation of all pietism (hoping to build towering academic pyramids with fact-based bricks), and convinced that the casual interpretation of the natural science model was accepted by Italy Croce, the dauthy challenge of Germany. Therefore, we can not boast that the only exception to this year, or that of the literary world, has found its answer and has even tended to be temporarily alleviated. However, this conference celebrities