Cargando…
Beyond the willing suspension of disbelief : poetic faith from Coleridge to Tolkien /
"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 h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2016]
|
| Colección: | New directions in religion and literature.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Dreams for realities
- CHAPTER ONE The willing suspension of disbelief
- Into the desert: The critical vantage and the Wizard of Ozymandias
- "Ironic credulity" and the willing suspension of disbelief
- The limits of the willing suspension of disbelief
- Beyond not disbelieving
- CHAPTER TWO Poetic faith
- "As a stranger give it welcome": Beyond faith in Shakespeare
- Desynonymizing "faith" and "belief": Life, higher reason, and beholding truth
- "There are more things, Horatio": Coleridge's model of reading
- CHAPTER THREE The willing resumption of disbelief
- "Experimentative faith": Danger, doubting, and Bertram
- Bad faith and the Dark Knight: Resuming disbelief in Bertram
- Rhetoric, power, and poetic faith
- Conclusion: Potent art.