Colwell, C. Carter.  “Literary Criticism and Process Thought: Blackmur, Sartre, Brooks, and Whitehead.”  Process Studies 2, no. 4 (Fall 1972): 183-192.

Abstract

The ontological implications of three critics' criteria for literary judgment are shown by quotation and summary from one work each.  Blackmur insists that poetry objectify impersonal material.  Brooks wants structural complexity in poetry and drama.  Sartre wants fiction to show personal freedom as a projection into an open future.  These correspond respectively to the initial, intermediate, and final phases of an occasion, and might be reconciled by a theory of genres with ontological bases. [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]