Publication

2017 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

46,000 words, Guess

Page Count

184 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781350036024
  • ISBN-101350036021
  • AmazonB0180NZGFM
  • Better World Books9781350036024
  • Better World BooksO9-BEZ-297
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Classifications

  • LCCPN511

Description

"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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  • Beyond the Willing Suspension of DisbeliefBloomsbury Publishing Plc2017

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