在特里·伊格尔顿的著作《理论之后》中,以批评理论的角度对后现代主义者以及后结构主义者所宣告的“理论终结论”进行了反思,提出理论回归的见解。在伊格尔顿看来,理论的终结,并不意味着理论的消失,而是建立在理论基础上的反思,以正确地面对未来所遭遇的问题。在理论的有效性逐渐减弱的情况下,通过对理论的反思,可以形成一种规范,以作为理论的延伸,而将理论诸如到文学视野,则是在文学场域中以文学的态度对理论重新界定,以使理论的活力重新焕发出来。 In Terry Eagleton’s book The Theory Behind, the author reconsiders “the theory’s conclusion” proclaimed by postmodernists and post-structuralists in the perspective of criticizing theory and puts forward the opinion that theory returns . In Eagleton’s opinion, the end of the theory does not mean the disappearance of the theory but rather the reflection based on the theory so as to correctly face the problems encountered in the future. Under the circumstance that the effectiveness of the theory is gradually weakened, through the reflection on the theory, we can form a kind of norm as an extension of the theory. However, putting the theory into the field of literature, for example, Redefine, in order to rejuvenate the vitality of theory.