Abstract
In The Event of Literature, Terry Eagleton tries to elucidate on the literary philosophical questions pertaining to the decline of theory, and calls for a return to literature itself by breaking through the delimitations of politico-cultural studies as in post-colonialist and post-modernist criticism. However, Eagleton does not revert to pure formal research in the "after theory" period as he does not believe formalism can save literary studies. For Eagleton who has a Catholic background, the authority of new religion lies in ethical rather than aesthetic claims. What Eagleton tries to bypass the fruitless debate over essentialism and revive Aristotelian ethnical ideas so as to promote literary studies with virtue ethics and to open a way to reconstruct literary theory that is connected with critical theory and analytical philosophy.
First Page
103
Last Page
110
Recommended Citation
Sun, Yan. 2016. "How to Study Literature with "After Theory": Focusing on Eagleton's Event of Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (4): pp.103-110. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss4/11
