Terry Eagleton treats literature as a value judgement, and he argues that the nature of literature should have the signifiG cance of ethics. For him, to some degree, literature embodies the ideology, which could be seen as a construction of social activities and experience of human beings. To this end, Eagleton advocates that through literary text literature theory must confront the life and the whole world which we live in, and then it can associated with social activities with the ideology tie.%伊格尔顿在«文学事件»认为文学作为一种价值判断,其本质应具有伦理学意义。因文学在一定程度上体现着意识形态,同意识形态一样是一种对整体社会生活及经验的构建,故应从“事件”入手,将文学视为一种“策略”,从而更加叙述性地、偏重经验地应用和定义文学一词。为此伊格尔顿主张文学理论应通过文学直面人们身处其中的生活与世界,以意识形态为纽带将文学与现实生活相联系。
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