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Beauty and sublimity : a cognitive aesthetics of literature and the arts /

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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hogan, Patrick Colm (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.