Coleridge and the suspension of disbelief, Spanish C2
Read a precise account of Coleridge’s famous formula, its 1817 context, and its connection to Lyrical Ballads.
La suspensión voluntaria de la incredulidad: leer a Coleridge sin simplificarlo
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What you'll learn
Thirteen cards on literary criticism, advanced connectors, concessive structures, and nuanced interpretation.
A factual C2 article returns the suspension of disbelief to chapter XIV of Biographia Literaria and distinguishes Coleridge’s wording from later simplifications. No fictional scene is used.
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conviene volver al pasaje
newit is worth returning to the passage
A formal expression that directs an argument back to primary evidence.
Useful when correcting an interpretation through close reading.
En rigor
newstrictly speaking
It introduces a more exact formulation.
Useful for refining a claim in formal prose.
Por el contrario
newon the contrary
It rejects the previous expectation and presents the opposite point.
Useful for strong argumentative contrast.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Credulity
una credulidad
credulity
A readiness to believe something too easily.
Useful when discussing belief, evidence, and persuasion.
A framework
un andamiaje
a scaffolding or framework
Literally scaffolding, used figuratively for a supporting structure.
Common in sophisticated analytical prose.
Plausibility
verosimilitud
plausibility
The quality of seeming credible within a context.
Central vocabulary for literary and argumentative analysis.
The pact
El pacto
the pact
An agreement, here used metaphorically for the relation between text and reader.
Useful for discussing implicit agreements and conventions.
Mismatch
el desfase
the mismatch
A lack of correspondence between two elements.
Useful for identifying inconsistencies in an analysis.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Lejos de plus infinitive
Lejos de exigir una credulidad sin límites
Far from demanding unlimited credulity
Lejos de rejects an interpretation before presenting a contrasting claim.
It makes argumentative correction concise.
Consequence with de ahí que
De ahí que resulte engañoso convertir la fórmula
Hence it is misleading to turn the formula
De ahí que introduces a consequence and normally takes the subjunctive.
Useful for formal causal reasoning.
Sea cual sea
Sea cual sea el género
Whatever the genre may be
This fixed concessive pattern uses repeated subjunctive forms to cover every possibility.
Useful for generalizations that allow exceptions.
Rejected cause with no porque
No porque el lector ignore la imposibilidad
Not because the reader ignores the impossibility
The subjunctive ignore rejects that cause as the speaker's explanation.
It distinguishes an actual reason from a denied one.
Correlative comparison
Cuanto más extraordinario es el mundo narrado
The more extraordinary the narrated world is
Cuanto más pairs with más to relate two varying degrees.
Useful for expressing proportional change in formal prose.
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