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October 16, 2019 • 19:47 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
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The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of itself, such as the design and purpose of the author is called ____________ .

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    Intentional fallacy, a term used in 20th-century literary criticism to describe the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it.
    Introduced by W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley in The Verbal Icon (1954), the approach was a reaction to the popular belief that to know what the author intended—what he had in mind at the time of writing was to know the correct interpretation of the work. Although a seductive topic for conjecture and frequently a valid appraisal of a work of art, the intentional fallacy forces the literary critic to assume the role of cultural historian or that of a psychologist who must define the growth of a particular artist‘s vision in terms of his mental and physical state at the time of his creative act.
    Affective fallacy is a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader. The term was coined by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley in 1946 as a principle of New Criticism which is often paired with their study of The Intentional Fallacy.

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