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

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

Michael Tomko

184 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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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"...

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