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 formula named as such in English by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature. Coleridge coined the phrase in his Biographia Literaria, published in 1817.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rarely do we ask ourselves how we manage to be convinced of the “truth” of things that are blatantly untrue, or that we know on a logical level cannot be. This phenomenon is called, as you may know, the “willing suspension of disbelief” – the manner in which we allow ourselves to be convinced by implausibility.