So its own being should be the subject of critical study.Contents. It can have its meaning with in itself, by its own structure. So it has no need to take support of writer's intention and reader's affective response to assert its being. It is not only an autonomous object but also complete in itself. They believe that a work of literature or text has ontology of its own. Wimsatt and Brendsley criticize the tradition of expressive criticism as intentional fallacy and pragmatic criticism as affective fallacy. As a text is an autonomous entity, the best way of deriving meaning is to analyze linguistics elements such as syntax, semantics etc, since the work of art has its own anthological status, and it should not be judged through the parameter outside the text. Thus if the critic depends on the meaning produced by a single reader it will be a kind of mistake. The effect of the text varies from person to person and from reading to reading. The meaning of test is public, not personal. Wimsatt and Breadsley view that text constitutes language. Theories of catharsis, therapy, didacticism etc, fall under the affective fallacy because they judge the poem in terms of its effect on the reader. As a result of this fallacy, criticism ends in impressionism and relativism and objective criticism becomes almost impossible. It is a way of deriving meaning of the text interims of affect of product up on the reader.Īffective fallacy is the error of evaluating a text by its effect. The meaning, structure, value of text is inherent with in the work of art itself it is an object with certain autonomy.Īffective fallacy means the confusion between the poem and its result. They claim that author's intended meaning is irrelevant to the literary critic. The critic should not interpret the allusion in terms of author’s intention.
But for Wimsatt and Beardsley criticism should be objective and textual, critic should not go beyond the text.Īuthor can't control the text as soon as he writes.
If a critic interprets text in terms of author’s biography, this interpretation is called subjective interpretation or criticism. It is the fallacy because an author is not the part of the text instead, text is public but not private.
International fallacy means the confusion between the poem and its origin.
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