Beauty and Sublimity : a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts /

Beauty and Sublimity : a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts /

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Author / Creator:	Hogan, Patrick Colm, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (298 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Aesthetics. Literature -- Aesthetics. Arts -- Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics. Aesthetics. Arts -- Philosophy. Literature -- Aesthetics. Ästhetik Literatur Künste Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12869928

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Varying Form of Title:	Beauty & Sublimity
ISBN:	9781316335604 1316335607 9781316470374 1316470377 1107535492 9781107535497 1316468879 9781316468876 1316469379 9781316469378 1316469123 9781316469125 9781107115118 9781107535497 1107115116
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2016). Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Hogan, Patrick Colm. Beauty and Sublimity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107115118 1107115116