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suspension of disbelief
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role in aesthetic experience
- In aesthetics: Emotion, response, and enjoyment
…is characterized by a “willing suspension of disbelief,” and thus involves the very same ingredient of belief that is essential to everyday emotion (Biographia Literaria, 1817). Coleridge’s phrase, however, is consciously paradoxical. Belief is characterized precisely by the fact that it lies outside the will: I can command you to…
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