ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “suspension of disbelief” in 1817, but almost two centuries would lapse before we could infer how the brain might support this puzzling phenomenon.

Detailed explanation-2: -Willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It would mean suspend one’s critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of judgement.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the Romantic Movement in English poetry, defined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his “Biographia Literaria” (1817) as the reader’s suppression of critical analysis and realism for the sake of literary enjoyment.