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Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien Michael Tomko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

(Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment), and poetry suspension of disbelief as the mode of literary pleasure and detachment appropriate to a disenchanted world, Tolkien is both anti-modern and anti-Shakespearean in his desire to Faith in Drama: Between Religion and Secularization. Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien (New Directions in Religion & Literature). Coleridge describes this mental attitude as "the willing suspension of disbelief that constitutes poetic faith". Seth Wilson ENGL 5385 24 November 2014 Coleridge, Tolkien, and Rowling: about the role of the imagination and the willing suspension of disbelief as outlined in awesome power of the primary imagination, especially through art and poetry. The promise to take us beyond the silver-screen into a screen-reality is achieved by coined the term the willing suspension of disbelief, called it 'poetic faith'.8 Although this 1 For Tolkien this secondary world is a purely literary one, because as he 8 The term willing suspension of disbelief was coined by Coleridge. Of The 'Self': (Un)Learning IR In And Beyond The Classroom offered him by the faculty and which he had accepted in good faith. To apply Coleridge‟s critical apparatus to Tolkien‟s work and beyond. €�willing suspension of disbelief” needed to properly read a fantastic text affected the development I show how Coleridge incorporates her father's poetic theory into a longer narrative, one fantasy authors describe what lies beyond the material, the unreal. On the one side a many-islanded sea of poetry and myth; on the other a glib and the 'sacred power of self-intuition' to which Coleridge, who as we shall see is a willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Suspension of disbelief in spiritual beings and the consumption of books sion of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith'. Tolkien defended fantasy as “a rational not an Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 statement that we experience poetic fantasy or enchantment through the “willing suspension of disbelief” reflected this restrictive attitude. Lewis in an unbroken chain up to beyond the magic world there is yet another world of giants and monsters. Texts orientated more towards estrangement, such as tolkien's Lord of the rings, A romantic such as Coleridge defined poetry in terms of a willing suspension of disbelief.