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Author: Dr Michael Tomko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.222kg
ISBN: 9781350036024
ISBN 10: 1350036021
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 18 May 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Tomko ... has chosen a very strong topic: the tension between aesthetic cum ethical appeal and ideological imperiousness. His tendency to use a dialectic of opposing positions, examine the shortcomings of either extreme, and explore intermediate positions makes a good match for Coleridge's own heuristic inclinations. The scope of the book is broad, encompassing numerous theoretical/critical texts (Eagleton, McGann, Tolkien, to name only a few) and primary texts (e.g., Shelley's Ozymandias, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Tempest, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings). There is no doubting the drive to discover in this author. Given these strengths, the book sets the bar very high on a topic of pressing interest for many readers. * The Coleridge Bulletin * Elegantly written, theologically informed, this is top-level critical theory. * Catholic Herald * 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. * European Romantic Review * 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. * Theology *
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. European Romantic Review 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. Theology
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. European Romantic Review
Author Information
Michael Tomko is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, USA and book review editor for Religion & Literature. He is the author of British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829 (2011) and co-editor of Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, 1483-1999 (2011).
