Beyond the willing suspension of disbelief : poetic faith from Coleridge to Tolkien / Michael Tomko.

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Tomko, Michael, 1975- [author.]

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TextSeries: New directions in religion and literaturePublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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9781780938363
1780938365
9781780937304
178093730X
9781474218627
1474218628
9781780935928
1780935927

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief : Poetic Faith from Coleridge to TolkienDDC classification:

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""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Series""; ""Tilte""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Dreams for realities""; ""CHAPTER ONE The willing suspension of disbelief""; ""Into the desert: The critical vantage and the Wizard of Ozymandias""; ""�a��Ironic credulity�a�� and the willing suspension of disbelief""; ""The limits of the willing suspension of disbelief""; ""Beyond not disbelieving""; ""CHAPTER TWO Poetic faith""; ""�a��As a stranger give it welcome�a��: Beyond faith in Shakespeare""

""Desynonymizing �a��faith�a�� and �a��belief�a��: Life, higher reason, and beholding truth""""�a��There are more things, Horatio�a��: Coleridge�a�™s model of reading""; ""CHAPTER THREE The willing resumption of disbelief""; ""�a��Experimentative faith�a���a�"Danger, doubting, and Bertram""; ""Bad faith and the Dark Knight: Resuming disbelief in Bertram""; ""Rhetoric, power, and poetic faith""; ""Conclusion: Potent art ""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""Index""

Summary: "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 literary criticism that is not only historically and politically aware but also deeply engaged with aesthetic form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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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 literary criticism that is not only historically and politically aware but also deeply engaged with aesthetic form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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