Beauty and Sublimity : a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts / Patrick Colm Hogan.

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Hogan, Patrick Colm [author.]

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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781316335604
1316335607
9781316470374
1316470377
1107535492
9781107535497
1316468879
9781316468876
1316469379
9781316469378
1316469123
9781316469125

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Beauty & Sublimity

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beauty and Sublimity.DDC classification:

111.85

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BH39

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.