{"product_id":"beyond-the-willing-suspension-of-michael-tomko-9781780937304","title":"Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien","description":"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, \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Tomko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178093730X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780937304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016","brand":"Michael Tomko","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486035259647,"sku":"9781780937304","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84a394e3-0732-49f8-9c33-cf5e3a20aa6a.jpg?v=1778053238","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-the-willing-suspension-of-michael-tomko-9781780937304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}