<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic color(0E101A)">The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve"> (2015) discusses intersections between the literary and cognitive, reflecting on imagination, brain imaging, and its neural networks; imagery as the key element of aesthetic experience; the delicate balance between internal and external cognition giving rise to an intense aesthetic response etc. </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic color(0E101A)">The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve"> (2005) is a comprehensive work on philosophical ideas of aesthetics and its properties; arts and their relationship with aesthetics; notions of interpretation etc. In a self-reflexive essay, Matravers and Levinson (2005) defend Levinson's ontology of aesthetic properties while also questioning issues like aesthetic autonomy. More empirical works, such as by Larson et al. (2007), measured the aesthetics of reading based on typographic alterations and textual optimisation that affected the reader's cognitive functions and frowning while reading. DeClerq (2002) observed that existing definitions of aesthetic properties pertain mostly to visual objects, leaving enough scope for inquiry into the other forms of aesthetic expressions, such as music and literature. </hi>