姚基在《外国文学评论》第3期发表的《向文学本体论挑战——现代意图主义理论述评》中介绍了美国文学理论家赫施(E.D.Hirsch)和朱尔(P.D.Juhl)提出的现代意图主义阐释理论。文章指出现代阐释理论是建立在这样一种本体论基础之上的:任何一种客体都有某种既定的本质,它并不因为人们对它感知的差异而有所改变。人们在知觉方面的差异不足以证明知觉对象在本质上的变化。文学文本作为 Yao Ji introduced the challenge of literary ontology - A review of modernistic theory of intension published by the third issue of Foreign Literary Criticism, which introduced by the American literary theorists EDHirsch and PDJuhl, Intertextual Interpretation Theory. The article points out that the theory of modern interpretation is based on such an ontology that any kind of object has a certain established essence, and it does not change because of the differences in people’s perceptions. People’s perceived differences are not enough to prove that the perceived object in essence. Literary text as