On Terry Eagleton's Views In The Event Of Literature Theory

Terry Eagleton applied ontology rather than substantialism to verify the validity of literature,and proposed a theory entitled "The Event of Literature" by taking events as the ontology of literature.Firstly,Terry Eagleton took the nature of events,i.e.,continuous occurrence and action,as the eternal ontology of literature.It means,on one hand,literature consists of various structures whereas it does not exist in any fixed structure,instead,literature derives from the process of breaking through fixed structures.On the other hand,literature is a kind of performative action that pursues truth and significance during the process of write,read,and criticism.Secondly,Terry Eagleton regarded the events as intentional and structural Strategies,thus literature presents the theoretical characteristic of overflowing structure and being structured by intentional and structural Strategies.Thirdly,Terry Eagleton claimed that human can gain genuine sense and value of morality by rebelling to realistic morality and orthodox concepts through literary events.The theory,"The Event of Literature",has broad and profound backgrounds.First of all,the development of event philosophy in the field of literary theory,greatly influenced Terry Eagleton so that he took events as the ontology of literature.Meanwhile,the Practice Viewpoint of Marxism led Terry Eagleton to consider literary issues through ontology.Besides,the Labor Viewpoint of Marxism(established on basis of the Practice Viewpoint),also deeply influenced Terry Eagleton such that he regarded literature as an action that faces mankind itself.Moreover,affected by the concepts of "Realm of Necessity" and "Realm of Freedom",Terry Eagleton proposed the opinion that literature is a series of Strategies,which are constrained by fixed structures but are able to break through those fixed structures."The Event of Literature" shows a critical thought derived from the Marxism by criticizing the Binary Opposition Viewpoint and the Literary Mechanism Theory.Furthermore,it was confirmed by Terry Eagleton that literature is actually a category of ontology from the angle of event actions,based on the linguistic philosophy of Later Wittgenstein and Speech Act Theory."The Event of Literature" varies from ideology to literary events,from class differences to entire mankind,from taking literature as weapons for political struggles to taking literature as a path to achieve ethic moralities of mankind,and from anti-hypostasis to comprehensively recognizing hypostasis.All those changes illustrate that Terry Eagleton's theory has inherited the Political Literary Criticism and rethought about the Post-Modernism.Moreover,taking literary events that rebel to realistic order and ideology structure as an Aristotelian virtue,presents that Terry Eagleton has re-discovered the moral function of literature."The Event of Literature"shows capabilities to modify The End of Criticism,however,there are still some problems including how to balance events and structures,how to utilize theoretical tools in reality,and so on.In summary,the theory illustrates that Terry Eagleton continues to focus on profound issues of literature and mankind through broad theoretical horizons in the new era.