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 wo...