{"product_id":"beyond-the-willing-suspension-of-disbelief-poetic-faith-from-coleridge-to-tolkien-paperback","title":"Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Tomko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel 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, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Tomko\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, USA and book review editor for \u003ci\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBritish Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFirmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, 1483-1999\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47440491708594,"sku":"9781350036024","price":95.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3506772d08528a977e5ad4f124ab3fed.webp?v=1778682198","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/beyond-the-willing-suspension-of-disbelief-poetic-faith-from-coleridge-to-tolkien-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}