Response to Literature

action actual aesthetic aesthetic distance ambiguity Anna Karenina Antigone Aristotle artist audience basic beautiful C. S. Lewis character Chichikov classical comedy concept contrast conventions creative Creon criticism D. H. Lawrence death drama effect emotional epic essay evil example experience expression fact free verse G. K. Chesterton gives Greek hero Homer human humor idea imagination imagistic imitation intellectual intuition irony James Joyce Joyce kind levels lines literary literature M. H. Abrams meaning meant mental association Milton mimesis mind modern moral narrative nature Northrop Frye novel object Paradise Lost particular person Plato play plot poem poet poetic poetry present prose psychological reader realistic relationship renaissance response rhetoric Romantic Romeo rose Satan satire sense Shakespeare short story soul stanza statement symbol syntheses tension theater theme things thought tion tradition tragedy tragic transcendent unity universal values verse word writer York