Analysis On Eagleton’s Theory Of Ideology

Terry Eagleton is an outstanding Marxian esthetician, a literary theorist and acultural critic on contemporary Western, he is very famous in Western academic circles.The theory of ideology is the basic component of the theories. It is the core area ofcultural criticism and the premise of analyzing literary and aesthetic. Exploring thecomplexity on the concept of ideology makes his theoretical research seem unique.The theory of ideology experienced gradual development and construction in thefollowing decade. Eagleton absorbed various related theories and analyzed ideologyfrom the point view of epistemology and sociology to form different confinements tothe terminology. He integrated ideology with literary and aesthetic sufficiently, puttingforward text of ideology, ideological criticism, and cultural ideology of aestheticideology. Eagleton criticized the illusion of the postmodernism.