Affective fallacy
🔹Affective fallacy is the error of judging a poem by its emotional effects on the reader.
🔹 the term was introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and Manroe C. Beardsley in their essay The Affective fallcy (1946)
🔹 They pointed out that such an emotional judgment will result in impressionism and relativism
🔹Affective fallacy is the error of judging a poem by its emotional effects on the reader.
🔹 the term was introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and Manroe C. Beardsley in their essay The Affective fallcy (1946)
🔹 They pointed out that such an emotional judgment will result in impressionism and relativism
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