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The Ontological Status of the Literary Work of Art

entity or essence. Second, I shall propose a conception of the ontological status of the literary work of art. Here I shall present two arguments: (1) The object of literary criticism, appreciation, and education is a process of meaningful experience; it becomes actual, it acquires identity, in the event of reading a literary work, in which we become responsive to its basic elements, given and potential, and realize, in a creative effort, the aesthetic qualities that are potential in it as an organic whole. (2) The literary work of art is fundamentally a perceived object, but one perceived imaginatively rather than sensuously. The experience in which it is realized involves the perception of a relatively stable linguistic structure. This structure is the basis of the aesthetic experience; it is also the objective ground of aesthetic evaluation and criticism. I shall consider these questions critically and then advance a constructive analysis of the ontological status of the object of literary criticism.