Abstract
Patrick Colm Hogan's newly published monograph Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts aims to explore, among others, the architectural substratum underlying miscellaneous aesthetic responses in literature and the arts, and, by having recourse to a dialogue with cognitive science, enables the previously "unspoken beauty" to secure an unprecedented cognitive attention. This review, on the one hand, focuses and elaborates upon such three crucial topoi as "information processing & emotion system," "aesthetic universals & the diversity of taste," and "variation, canonization & aesthetic argument," as illustrated in Hogan's work, and, on the other, takes issue with a few research trajectories arising in the present literary cognition studies.
First Page
171
Last Page
178
Recommended Citation
Yu, Lei. 2018. ""The Unspoken Beauty": A Review of Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 38, (4): pp.171-178. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss4/1
