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SOME ASPECTS OF THE RASA THEORY
ques of expression. Quite obviously Lodge is dealing with the vast and highly complex perspective of modern literature, while Kuntaka's perspective is comparatively quite limited. Even then the matter both of them are talking about is, it seems to me, essentially analogous. But of course this requires to be discussed in depth as a separate issue.
Some parallels to the basic categories of the aesthetic experience of literature can be drawn from another domain of art, viz, painting. In the area of objective painting, (1) naturalistic works like landscapes and still life, (2) works with symbolic meanings and (3) scenes from life have in some styles, obviously different aesthetic bases.
