Patrick Colm Hogan

Beauty and Sublimity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrating science and art, this accessible, but nuanced work explains how we experience beauty and why we enjoy it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781107535497
• ISBN-10: 1107535492
• Artikelnr.: 49134616

Autorenporträt

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English, the Program in Cognitive Science and the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of seventeen scholarly books, including What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion (Cambridge, 2011) and How Authors' Minds Make Stories (Cambridge, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Why beauty?
1. Literary aesthetics: beauty, the brain, and Mrs Dalloway
2. The idiosyncrasy of beauty: aesthetic universals and the diversity of taste
3. Unspoken beauty: problems and possibilities of absence
4. Aesthetic response revisited: quandaries about beauty and sublimity
5. My Othello problem: prestige status, evaluation, and aesthetic response
6. What is aesthetic argument?
7. Art and beauty
Afterword. A brief recapitulation, with a coda on anti-aesthetic art.