Hogan applies research from cognitive and affective science to develop a new branch of stylistics he calls affective-cognitive stylistics. . . . Throughout Hogan demonstrates the intellectual and practical value of stylistic analysis as a means of understanding, appreciating, and producing narratives.
Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the English Department and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut. Hogan is the author of twenty-four books and over 200 articles and book chapters, as well as the editor or co-editor of five books, six special issues of journals, and the web-based Literary Universals Project. His research combines cognitive and affective science with narrative theory to
address problems in literary aesthetics and politics.