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Literary theory

the reader's voluntary setting aside of doubt about the supernatural or improbable so as to engage with a poem's imagined world.

In literary theory, willing suspension of disbelief refers to the reader's voluntary setting aside of doubt about the supernatural or improbable so as to engage with a poem's imagined world. This meaning comes from Coleridge (1817/1991) in Biographia literaria.[1]

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  1. Coleridge, S. T. (1991). Biographia literaria (G. Watson, Ed.). J. M. Dent. (Original work published 1817) ISBN 9780460871082

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