美国康涅狄格大学文学认知研究专家霍根教授再推力作《美与崇高：文艺认知美学》（1）；该书尤其旨在为文学中诸多纷繁的个体审美反应探求一种结构性主张，同时借助与认知科学的对话，使得文学美学研究中那向来“未可言说”的部分获得空前的认知审美观照。本文拟聚焦于“信息加工”与“情感机制”、“审美共性”与“个性品味”以及“变奏”“经典化”与“审美争议”等三大关键节点，在对它们加以厘清的同时，凸出围绕文学认知研究路径中出现的相关问题加以商榷。

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.