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The Feeling of Beauty: Aesthetic Perception, Judgment and Literary Cognition

Panel: 
Literature and Psychology
Abstract: 

In this paper I address ways in which accounts of aesthetic perception based on processing fluency can illuminate aspects of aesthetic judgment described by verbal artists, exploring the association of beauty with truth, beauty’s phenomenology of novelty, and the forms of pleasure associated with literary metaphor.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Nikki
Last Name: 
Skillman
Institution: 
Harvard University