ABSTRACT
The form of literature and art, one of the most concerned aspects of aesthetics and one of the fields in which ideology exerts a lot of its influences, becomes the focus of Eagleton. The main reason for Chinese theoretical circles to quote it frequently was to demonstrate the practicality of ideology, and then to prove that literature could directly participate in social changes. For a time, the focus of academic circles is not on whether ideology is applicable in the positioning of literature, but on how to narrow the scope of it in literary theories more precisely, taking its legality for granted. Therefore, when dealing with the basic question of literary theory, to use ideology to define literature or to use literature to verify the penetrating forces of ideology may answer the question whether there is a boundary for literary study. Their achievements provide both inspirations and warnings for the development of Chinese theory of ideology.
