走向文学计算批评:文学伦理学批评与日本文学研究

Proposed by Chinese scholar Nie Zhenzhao in 2004, ethical literary criticism has rapidly developed into a theory of literary criticism that has been recognized and widely employed by Chinese and international academic communities. In order to further promote the dissemination and development of ethical literary criticism in East Asia, the author was invited to organize this issue, focusing on the key concepts of ethical literary criticism such as ethical identity, ethical choice, and ethical environment, and exploring how ethical literary criticism provides theoretical references for the study of literature in East Asia such as Japan and South Korea from the perspective of theoretical construction and critical practice. This article specifically highlights the “Computational Turn in Literary Criticism” proposed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao, an International Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea, and provides interpretations in this special issue. From the perspective of “negative capability, ” it analyzes representative works of contemporary Japanese literature, including Ushio Fukuzawa’s Green and Red, Keiichiro Hirano’s A Man, and Sonoko Machida’s 52-hertz Whale, to explore the potential integration of Japanese literature with ethical literary criticism.