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W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley were two influential literary critics and philosophers who had a significant impact on the field of literary criticism in the mid-20th century. Both were associated with the New Criticism movement, which emphasized close reading and formalist analysis of literary texts.
Wimsatt was a literary critic and philosopher who was best known for his work on literary intentionality and the concept of the "intentional fallacy." This fallacy, as Wimsatt described it, refers to the idea that the meaning or value of a literary work can be determined by examining the intentions of the author. Wimsatt argued that this approach was flawed because it could not account for the various ways in which a text might be interpreted by different readers. Instead, Wimsatt argued that the meaning and value of a literary work should be determined by analyzing the text itself, rather than by trying to understand the intentions of the author.
Beardsley was another influential literary critic and philosopher who was associated with the New Criticism movement. Like Wimsatt, Beardsley emphasized the importance of close reading and formalist analysis in literary criticism. However, Beardsley also argued that literary criticism should consider the historical and cultural context in which a literary work was produced. In this sense, Beardsley's approach to literary criticism was somewhat more contextual than that of Wimsatt, who tended to focus more on the formal aspects of a text.
Both Wimsatt and Beardsley made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism and had a lasting influence on the way that literary texts are studied and interpreted. Their ideas about the importance of close reading and formalist analysis continue to be influential to this day, and their work has helped to shape the way that literary critics approach the study of literature.
Beardsley, M. C. and Wimsatt, W. K.
A popular example of the intentional fallacy in the real world is when critics attempt to analyze Leonardo da Vinci's authorial intent for his popular painting, Mona Lisa. The president of Marquette University, for example, declares a tuition hike, or signs a document granting tenure to David Decker. Thus evidence respecting the height of Jones, Sr. Representing that someone is stating that p is like stating that someone is stating that p—just a speech act with a more complicated conceptual content and structure than simply stating that p. Some think it is a sly or mysterious smile, some think it is a scornful smile, and there are even more interpretations beyond these.
William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy,” 1946
Wimsatt and Beardsley claim that author's intent, or the author's ideas about how their work should be perceived and evaluated, cannot be considered when evaluating their work. He welcomed new developments, and reference to new works and works that lack the luster of fame, notoriety, or ready recognition appear frequently in Aesthetics and his other work. Its premise is that readers cannot and should not attempt to evaluate an author's work through the author's intentions when reading literature, specifically poetry. Thus an author can be wrong about what his own work means. This method of in G? On the other hand, the overall argument could just as easily cut the other way. The question the poetry which arise in the world of of Eliot, is certainly for example, one where of progressive ex as acutely posed a false judgment to involve the intentional The is likely and fallacy. The question at issue, however, is whether speaker meaning is criterial evidence for sentence meaning.
William K. Wimsatt: Intentional Fallacy And Affective Fallacy In New Criticism
The ontology argued for begins with a distinction between physical objects and perceptual objects. While their intent is to persuade readers not to smoke, the readers perceive the writing as entertaining and are therefore amused by the piece. As far as everyday discourse is concerned, then, the intentional fallacy is no fallacy at all, strictly speaking. One demands that it work. Moreover, many interpretative disputes arise not from questions of content but rather from questions of form and tone: we may agree on the most basic meaning of a poem but disagree on the significance we attach to this meaning. Our own The view and not is yet the the He has of irresponsibility, The different.
Beardsley’s Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Aesth: xviii That was to change, and Beardsley later did offer a definition of art. Wordsworth, however, knew that Milton was long deadand had no such belief. Token sentences contrast with type sentences. Firstly, there is always plenty of room for an audience to misinterpret what an author actually means in their writing, such as not understanding an author's use of irony or misinterpreting their tone. Answering this question requires taking a slight detour.
Are there features of prose fiction and non-fiction prose which would seem to suggest a concern with intention? The philosophical problems that descriptive statements give rise to involve the concept of form, Beardsley thinks. The fourth states that readers can find personal meaning in relating to a poem, but readers should now attribute their personal feelings about a poem to what the author intended for the poem. Richards and Allen Tate? I can inadvertently insult or warn someone. One swallow is not a summer, and a single such intention or belief not a convention or, except in very odd circumstances, sufficient for one. A poem can be only through its meaning… yet it is, simply is, in the sense that we have no excuse for inquiring what part is intended or meant. As for art criticism, Beardsley thought that a great deal of it read like the ruminations of a batter who kept his eyes on the scoreboard, the fans, his contract, his place in history, or his wife in the stands—instead of on the ball.
He taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Mt. Affective Fallacy refers to the error of evaluating a text through the emotional response of the reader. That reply, in fact, previews a response to the second objection. We know this because Pope embodies his doctrines in a discourse that flaunts its poetic form in sound and meaning and directs attention to itself as an object of rewarding scrutiny. Beardsley is best known for his work in aesthetics—and this article will deal exclusively with his work in that area—but he was an extremely intellectually curious man, and published articles in a number of areas, including the philosophy of history, action theory, and the history of modern philosophy.
Ultimately, art is defined in terms of itself. But it is necessary recollected that we realize the character shade advice Walter and between that of such testimony. And the paradox is only verbal and superficial that what is 1 internal is also public: it is dis covered the semantics and syntax through habitual of the language, knowledge our and dictionaries, aries, in general while of what all the through literature all is 2 external as a linguistic the work which that makes of a poem, through is the source a through grammars, of diction and language or is private not a part it consists fact: of revelations in AND WIMSATT 479 that he was limited in his creation he have, what or or otherwise that received having experienced, 2 to return of associations, he was bound them in clusters not he did had BEARDSLEY read certain just the way he did, in terms of described The that and the value of the poem he had on which the experiences sort of of a propositions Hartleyan pair latter to. Even if both objections can be rebutted, though, Beardsley is still inclined to reject the view that works of art are, all of them, kinds. Wimsatt and Beardsley propose that the existence of a work of literature itself is the only way readers can interpret an artist's intention, and a work's "success" depends on how relevant it is to the reader. But the problem with drawing the distinction this way is that objects other than the work of art itself often have to be consulted in order to know what the work means, and many of these objects have to be regarded as legitimate sources of information, lest interpretation become impossible.
If an author is able to revise their work to better achieve their original intent, it simply means that their original intention was not their true intention. All token sentences are tokens of a type, in much the same way that all token 2023 Toyota Corollas—spatio-temporal objects found on streets and highways—are tokens of a single type, 2023Toyota Corolla. One demands that it work. Author's intent can easily be misunderstood by an audience. Yet the notes, they say, should be held up to the same scrutiny as the lines of the poem itself; if the force of the allusions is not felt by the reader through the poem itself, then recourse to the notes is superfluous VI, 15— 16.
