Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien

AvMichael Tomko,Emma Mason

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-19
Mått:138 x 218 x 16 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Religion and Literature
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780937304

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

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Tomko … has chosen a very strong topic: the tension between aesthetic cum ethical appeal and ideological imperiousness. His tendency to use a dialectic of opposing positions, examine the shortcomings of either extreme, and explore intermediate positions makes a good match for Coleridge’s own heuristic inclinations. The scope of the book is broad, encompassing numerous theoretical/critical texts (Eagleton, McGann, Tolkien, to name only a few) and primary texts (e.g., Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tempest, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings). There is no doubting the drive to discover in this author. Given these strengths, the book sets the bar very high on a topic of pressing interest for many readers.

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Introduction: dreams for realities1 The willing suspension of disbelief2 Poetic faith3 The willing resumption of disbeliefConclusion: Potent artBibliographyIndex