Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2018, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 171-178.

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"The Unspoken Beauty": A Review of Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts

Yu Lei

Research Institute of Foreign Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Online:2018-09-25 Published:2018-10-22
About author:Yu Lei, Ph.D., is a professor of the Research Institute of Foreign Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing 100089, China). His main research areas are Anglo-American literature and theories of criticism.
Supported by:
National Social Sciences Foundation of China (13BWW037)

Abstract

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.

Key words: Patrick Colm Hogan, Beauty and Sublimity, aesthetics, literary cognition

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Yu Lei. "The Unspoken Beauty": A Review of Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2018, 38(4): 171-178.

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