Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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 ra...