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intentionalism|ɪnˈtɛnʃənəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. intentional a. + -ism.]
The doctrine that a literary work or some other work, etc., is the result of conscious intention or design. So inˈtentionalist, one who propounds such a doctrine; intentionaˈlistic a., of, pertaining to, or characterized by intentionalism.
1878W. Affleck tr. Janet's Final Causes i. vi. 215 God has come forth from Himself as well in pantheism as in creationism or intentionalism. 1946Wimsatt & Beardsley in Sewanee Rev. LIV. 485 Allusiveness in poetry is one of several critical issues by which we have illustrated the more abstract issue of intentionalism. Ibid. 486 Allusiveness would appear to be in some recent poems an extreme corollary of the romantic intentionalist assumption. 1952Essays in Crit. II. i. 106 But does the ‘intentionalist’ assert that no lyric can ever be abstracted from a longer work? 1954W. K. Wimsatt Verbal Icon i. 11 The use of biographical evidence [in criticism] need not involve intentionalism. 1958Listener 16 Oct. 595/1 There is a suspicious silence on the whole issue of intentionalism among the classical English critics. 1958I. P. Hungerland Poetic Discourse vi. 162 The Intentionalists have neglected such situations. 1958M. C. Beardsley Aesthetics 27 There are other critics who tend to shift back and forth between the work and its creator, never quite clear in their own minds when they are talking about the one or the other. They mingle the evidences of intention with the evidences of accomplishment, and sometimes decide what the work is or means primarily on external evidence. This is to practice intentionalistic criticism. |