英国马克思主义理论家特里·伊格尔顿在传统马克思主义、后结构主义、后现代主义等多棱思想框架中,努力凸显批评理论的责任和批评家的任务,提出在当代文学处境和理论现实中,批评家的任务不是演绎各种理论话语,而是在充分深入社会文化政治语境和思想现实中实现批评理论把握现实的功能,展现审美文化与批判理论的价值。《批评家的任务》展现了伊格尔顿文学批评理论的发展轨迹,再现了伊格尔顿作为一个批评家的理论情怀和批评担当,是全面把握伊格尔顿文学思想的重要文献。 Terry Eagleton, a British Marxist theorist, has made great efforts to highlight the responsibility of critique theory and the critics in the framework of multi-lateralism such as traditional Marxism, post-structuralism and postmodernism, and put forward some suggestions in contemporary literary situation and theory In reality, the task of critics is not to deduce various theoretical discourses. Instead, they realize the function of critical theory in grasping the reality in fully understanding the social, cultural and political contexts and ideological realities and revealing the values ​​of aesthetic culture and critical theory. “Critic’s Tasks” show the development of Eagleton’s theory of literary criticism, reproduce Eagleton’s theoretical feelings and criticism as a critic, and it is an important document that comprehensively grasps the thought of Eagleton’s literature.