Michael Tomko

Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien

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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 such as Stephen Greenblatt and Terry Eagleton as well as writers like J.R.R. Tolkien and Wendell Berry, Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief offers a method of reading for post-secular litera… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78093-836-3
EAN: 9781780938363
Produktnummer: 19562260
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'870 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 6 b/w

Über den Autor

Michael Tomko is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829 (Palgrave 2011) and co-editor of Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, 1483-1999 (Oxford UP 2011).