单词 | affective fallacy |
释义 | > as lemmasaffective fallacy affective fallacy n. (in literary criticism) the fallacy that the meaning or value of a work (esp. a poem) may be judged or defined in terms of its emotional effect on the reader or hearer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > fallacies in literary criticism intentional fallacy1946 affective fallacy1948 1948 W. K. Wimsatt & M. C. Beardsley in Poetry Dec. 155 Affective fallacy…a confusion between the poem and its results (what it is and what it does)... The affective fallacy is coupled with the intentional fallacy.., the former being a confusion between the poem and its results, the latter a confusion between the poem and its origins. Examples of the affective fallacy range from Plato's feeding and watering of the passions, Aristotle's counter-theory of catharsis, and the Longinian ‘transport’ of the audience. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 97/1 The Affective Fallacy, for Mr. Wimsatt..is the fallacy of the frisson, of the excited response to the isolated single line; or, more broadly, of the admirer of Dylan Thomas, say, who says: ‘I don't understand a word of it, but how wonderful!’ 1979 Notes & Queries June 254/2 Dryden is unabashedly guilty of that heresy, the ‘affective fallacy’. 2000 Amer. Scholar Autumn 52 A few of these fallacies have survived and may be familiar to you: the intentional fallacy, the paraphrastic fallacy, the affective fallacy. < as lemmas |
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