新历史小说是近十几年来我国文坛出现的一种重要的文学现象。它的最初命名对应的是当代历史 (包括革命史 )题材小说 ,与西方新历史主义理论似乎并无关系。但以新历史主义理论观察这一文学现象 ,同时立足于中国问题 ,不仅可以获得新的视域 ,而且有利于发现和总结新历史小说所内涵的历史诗学 ,探索文学叙事与历史的微妙关系。为此 ,本刊组织了一组以阐释新历史小说之历史诗学为主的笔谈 ,以期对这一问题进行深入的探讨 New historical novels have emerged as an important literary phenomenon in the literary world in the past decade or so. Its original name corresponds to the theme novels of contemporary history (including revolutionary history), and seems to have nothing to do with the new historicism of the West. However, observing this literary phenomenon based on the neo-historicism theory can not only gain new perspectives but also find and summarize the historical poetics in the new historical novels and explore the subtle relationship between the literary narration and the history based on the China issue . To this end, the magazine organized a group to explain the history of new historical novels based on the history of the poetic conversation, in order to explore this issue in-depth