blip
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Indy and the willing suspension of disbelief.
Coleridge recalled:
"... It was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Tolkien;
challenges this concept in his essay On Fairy Stories, choosing instead the paradigm of secondary belief, based on inner consistency of reality. Tolkien says that, in order for the narrative to work, the reader must believe that what he reads is true within the secondary reality of the fictional world. By focusing on creating an internally consistent fictional world, the author makes secondary belief possible. (wiki)
So, what are the rules to Indy's world and where do they come from?
Coleridge recalled:
"... It was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Tolkien;
challenges this concept in his essay On Fairy Stories, choosing instead the paradigm of secondary belief, based on inner consistency of reality. Tolkien says that, in order for the narrative to work, the reader must believe that what he reads is true within the secondary reality of the fictional world. By focusing on creating an internally consistent fictional world, the author makes secondary belief possible. (wiki)
So, what are the rules to Indy's world and where do they come from?
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