Beauty and Sublimity : a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts /
Hogan, Patrick Colm,
Beauty and Sublimity : a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts / Beauty & Sublimity Patrick Colm Hogan. - 1 online resource (298 pages)
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2016).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why beauty? -- Literary aesthetics: beauty, the brain, and Mrs. Dalloway -- The idiosyncrasy of beauty: aesthetic universals and the diversity of taste -- Unspoken beauty: problems and possibilities of absence -- Aesthetic response revisited: quandaries about beauty and sublimity -- My Othello problem: prestige status, evaluation, and aesthetic response -- What is aesthetic argument? -- Art and beauty -- A brief recapitulation, with a coda on anti-aesthetic art.
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to examine the former in terms of information processing (specifically, prototype approximation and non-habitual pattern recognition) and emotional involvement (especially of the endogenous reward and attachment systems). In the course of the book, Hogan examines such issues as how universal principles of aesthetic response may be reconciled with individual idiosyncrasy, how it is possible to argue rationally over aesthetic response, and what role personal beauty and sublimity might play in the definition of art. To treat these issues, the book considers works by Woolf, Wharton, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Beethoven, Matisse, and Kiran Rao, among others.
English.
9781316335604 (electronic bk.) 1316335607 (electronic bk.) 9781316470374 (electronic bk.) 1316470377 (electronic bk.) 1107535492 9781107535497 1316468879 9781316468876 1316469379 9781316469378 1316469123 9781316469125 (hardback) (paperback)
Aesthetics.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Arts--Philosophy.
Littérature--Esthétique.
PHILOSOPHY--Metaphysics.
Aesthetics.
Arts--Philosophy.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Ästhetik
Literatur
Künste
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BH39
111.85
Beauty and Sublimity : a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts / Beauty & Sublimity Patrick Colm Hogan. - 1 online resource (298 pages)
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2016).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why beauty? -- Literary aesthetics: beauty, the brain, and Mrs. Dalloway -- The idiosyncrasy of beauty: aesthetic universals and the diversity of taste -- Unspoken beauty: problems and possibilities of absence -- Aesthetic response revisited: quandaries about beauty and sublimity -- My Othello problem: prestige status, evaluation, and aesthetic response -- What is aesthetic argument? -- Art and beauty -- A brief recapitulation, with a coda on anti-aesthetic art.
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to examine the former in terms of information processing (specifically, prototype approximation and non-habitual pattern recognition) and emotional involvement (especially of the endogenous reward and attachment systems). In the course of the book, Hogan examines such issues as how universal principles of aesthetic response may be reconciled with individual idiosyncrasy, how it is possible to argue rationally over aesthetic response, and what role personal beauty and sublimity might play in the definition of art. To treat these issues, the book considers works by Woolf, Wharton, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Beethoven, Matisse, and Kiran Rao, among others.
English.
9781316335604 (electronic bk.) 1316335607 (electronic bk.) 9781316470374 (electronic bk.) 1316470377 (electronic bk.) 1107535492 9781107535497 1316468879 9781316468876 1316469379 9781316469378 1316469123 9781316469125 (hardback) (paperback)
Aesthetics.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Arts--Philosophy.
Littérature--Esthétique.
PHILOSOPHY--Metaphysics.
Aesthetics.
Arts--Philosophy.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Ästhetik
Literatur
Künste
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BH39
111.85