Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief - (New Directions in Religion and Literature) by Michael Tomko (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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, <i>Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Michael Tomko's focussed, lucid, and eloquent study reconsiders Coleridge's seminal formulation in Biographia Literaria: "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.+? ... Tomko makes an excellent case for the centrality of religious faith to Coleridge's thinking and writing.<br/>European Romantic Review<br><br>Tomko offers us an extended meditation on Coleridge's idea of 'the willing suspension of disbelief' in its subsequent use, abuse and history as a critical term ... He writes with great insight ... [A] slim, stimulating and erudite book.<br/>Theology<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michael Tomko</b> is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, USA and book review editor for <i>Religion & Literature</i>. He is the author of <i>British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829</i> (2011) and co-editor of <i>Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, 1483-1999</i> (2011).
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