William Kurtz Wimsatt

International Fallacy -

 the importance of author 's intention for the creation of a work of art .

The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson (1941)

Philosophic Words:

 A study of style and meaning in the Rambler.
Focused areas - Impressionism, subjectivism, relativism
Kenyan Review( Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism (1965)

Works

The Verbal Icon: 

Studies in the meaning of Poetry (1954)

Literary Criticism:

 A short History (1957)  Elucidation/ Criticism

Paul de man criticises Wimsatt in his Blindness and Insights.

 Terms

Concrete Universal

The domain of Criticism ( defends the domain of poetry from the art of general aesthetician 
 William Wimsatt/ Munroe C Beardsley

International Fallacy ( author's intention) conceptual model
Affective Fallacy (the reader's intention) mental model

 Verbal Icon: 

Studies in the meaning poetry(1954)

A- Intentional Fallacy

Is a mistake that people do when they derive meaning out of some work taking into consideration the author's intention.
Focus on poem, not on the poet
Acc.to Wimsatt , it denies from " confusion between the poem and its origin" Genetic fallacy

B- Affective Fallacy

When you judge the emotional effect of reader
The work is independent of both author and reader.
Confusion between the poem and its resultsReader / response.

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