In the article "The Affective Fallacy" in 1946 W.K.Wimasatt and Monroe C.Beardsley defined the Affective Fallacy as the errors of evaluating a poem by its effects--especially its emotional effects--upon the reader. As a result of this fallacy the poem as an object of critical judgement tends to disappear.
00175--Affective Fallacy [W.K.Wimsatt/Monroe C.Beardsley]
In the article "The Affective Fallacy" in 1946 W.K.Wimasatt and Monroe C.Beardsley defined the Affective Fallacy as the errors of evaluating a poem by its effects--especially its emotional effects--upon the reader. As a result of this fallacy the poem as an object of critical judgement tends to disappear.
