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Poetic faith and a willing suspension of disbelief in Zygmunt Haupt’s prose

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Garbol T.

Forum Poetyki

2023

issue 31

This article was inspired by the importance which Zygmunt Haupt attached to the “willing suspension of disbelief” on behalf of the reader. It discusses how Coleridge’s formula may function in a context that is not strictly poetic. A “suspension of disbelief” and poetic faith are complementary concepts which encourage in literary and cultural studies deep reflection on the demise of religious faith in favor of “poetic faith,” which, as M.H. Abrams writes, may essentially be described as “natural supernaturalism.” The article argues that this modernist experience may be found in Haupt’s works.

Punktem wyjścia artykułu jest przypomnienie znaczenia, jakie przywiązywał Zygmunt Haupt do „chętnego zawieszenia niewiary” przez czytelnika, a przedmiotem namysłu – wykraczające poza kontekst ściśle poetologiczny znaczenie tej formuły Coleridge’a. Zawieszenie niewiary i dopełniająca sens tego określenia poetycka wiara – to w historii literatury hasła wywoławcze dla głębokiego namysłu nad odejściem w kulturze od wyznaniowej wiary religijnej na rzecz „wiary poetyckiej”, której treścią jest jakość doświadczenia artystycznego, określana przez M.H. Abramsa jako „naturalny supranaturalizm”. Artykuł wskazuje, że z tym eksplorowanym przez modernistów doświadczeniem mamy do czynienia w dziele Haupta.

“Kubla Khan” and Islamic Structures: Retracing Symbolism and Investigating Imagination

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Chatterjee S., Okuń-Jaśkowiak A., Głaz A., Kniaź-Hunek L., Bendrat A., Prażmo E., Terejko P., Szczypa P., Czemiel G., Antoszek E., Galant J., Komsta M., Frelik E., Waszkiewicz A., Oleszczuk A., Waszkiewicz A., Okuń-Jaśkowiak A.

New Horizons in English Studies

2019

issue 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’spoem “Kubla Khan” draws upon the historical Xanadu, the summer palace of Mongol ruler Kubla Khan, and presents an architectural space that uses a commixture of imagination and mimesis to present a space of historical and supernatural transactions and transcends geographical limits.The architectural characteristics of Kubla Khan’s pleasure-dome in Xanadu are replete with similarities with various elements of Islamic architecture. The walled-in structure bears a great deal of resemblance to the layout of Islamic paradise gardens which are often found in the chaharbagh structure in mosques and Islamic sites.Further, the poem proposes a setting which has marked similarities with Kashmir and its geographical spaces and the same has been posited by several scholars.In this paper, I have aimed to present a coherent sequence of arguments in an attempt to relate the similarity of Xanadu with real geographical spaces and its intersection with elements of Islamic architecture through an examination of its actual history along with various tales of Xanadu found in the accounts of Marco Polo and other travellers. The paper also compares Xanadu with the structural compositions of the Taj Mahal in India and later, the Mecca, and also engages in discussing its allegorical significance in relation with the Islamic paradise or Jannah.The paper also discusses the possible sources for Coleridge’s poem and how they might have influenced him and his dreams and investigates the poem’s role in revisiting the fabled summer city of the Mongol ruler and its pleasure-dome configuration that resembled his paradise.

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1 Garbol T.

1 Głaz A.

1 Kniaź-Hunek L.

1 Komsta M.

1 Okuń-Jaśkowiak A.

1 Oleszczuk A.

1 Prażmo E.

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Poetic faith and a willing suspension of disbelief in Zygmunt Haupt’s prose

“Kubla Khan” and Islamic Structures: Retracing Symbolism and Investigating Imagination