Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay examines a poetics of interruption in “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.” It argues that in Coleridge’s verse as well as in his philosophical prose, anachronisms, neologisms, and other words “unsuited to the time, place, and company” disrupt habitual forms of thought. This poetics of interruption produces a contingent ethics that can help illuminate a middle ground between extreme positions concerning the status of narrative in contemporary theory. Straddling the divide between essentialist claims among advocates of narrative ethics and the anti-narrativity that characterizes much of the work in the so-called descriptive turn, Coleridge handles words as antiquarian relics that tell stories about groups who use them.
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