Affective fallacy

An important principle of New Criticism is the avoidance of what William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley called the Affective Fallacy — the fallacy of confusing a work of literature with its effects on the reader.

To a New Critic, meaning exists in the words of the text, and can therefore be observed objectively. Its emotional effect on actual readers is irrelevant.

Reader-response critics rebelled against Wimsatt and Beardsley, and argued that this "fallacy" is no fallacy at all.

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