Author(s)

Hongde Xiao

Corresponding Author

Hongde Xiao

Abstract

Terry Eagleton argued that literature is the special ideology as well as one kind of aesthetic form, which has the certain political color and also can be recognized as one part of economic base. Literature is the production of ideology, which completely is a new way to explain the relationship between literature and ideology. Both literature and ideology are the production of division of labor. Aesthetic forms of literature regarded as one kind of aesthetic code also reflect how literary production fosters texts in the related motions.

Keywords

Terry Eagleton; literature; ideology; production of ideology; Economic base