本文认为,社会生活可以是作家的观察对象,却不是文学的直接表现对象。文学是审美意识的表现。审美意识有其自身的独特性,文学以其审美的本质特性与其他意识形式相区别。审美意识是主客体之间审美感应的产物。审美感应存在不同模式。不同的感应模式所产生的不同审美意识,决定着艺术表现的不同倾向与方式。 This paper argues that social life can be the writer’s observation object, but not the direct expression of literature object. Literature is the manifestation of aesthetic consciousness. Aesthetic awareness has its own uniqueness, and literature distinguishes itself from other forms of consciousness on the basis of its aesthetic nature. Aesthetic consciousness is the product of the aesthetic feeling between the subject and the object. There are different modes of aesthetic feeling. The different aesthetic awareness produced by different modes of induction determine the different tendencies and modes of artistic expression.