Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien

by Michael Tomko

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations of a new theologically oriented mode of literary criticism. Bringing Coleridge into dialogue with thinkers ranging from Augustine to Josef Pieper, contemporary critics...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1350036021

ISBN13:9781350036024

Release Date:May 2017

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.48 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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