Imageology is a branch of comparative literature, which originated in the embryonic period of comparative literature. This paper mainly studies the shaping and description of foreign images in a country's literature. In recent years, iconology research is one of the academic hotspots of comparative literature in China.

Reception research and literary reception begin with reading this article, which is based on readers' expectation vision of specific reading experience, under the control of specific reception motivation and under the influence of specific reception emotions. Expectation horizon means that readers, as recipients, often have an established psychological schema before and during reading literature, which is based on the established psychological schema of journalists' articles, for personal and social complex reasons. Hans Robert Jauss believes that any reader is in a state of understanding or knowledge before reading a specific literary work. Without this transcendental understanding and transcendental knowledge, nothing new can be accepted by experience.