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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.
Wimsatt and Beardsley on the Intentional Fallacy
The second claims that readers have no way of obtaining a reliable answer to the question of what an author meant by their poem because if the author succeeded in their writing, the poem itself is the answer. Much of it, in other words, ignored what should be the main object of attention, the work itself. I went That reiterated mav have mistrust been part of of the poets which we hear a rigorously ascetic view from Socrates in which we to participate, saw a truth about Socrates yet hardly wish no sees? Additionally, anyone who attempts to evaluate the work through a lens other than the authorial definition is incorrect in their perception of the work. The primary intention behind the creation of a religious icon, for example, could be to bring worshipers closer to God. The poem belongs to the public.
The Intentional Fallacy by William K. Wimsatt & Monroe Beardsley
First, the cases of moral rightness and pain suggest that a natural home for criteria is in phenomena that are undeniable but unobservable. Has it happened to some degree? For several reasons, Beardsley thinks. In Aesthetics, the attack is a little different. Therefore, it can have meanings that its author did not intend. In all likelihood, the result would be the same.
Beardsley in the mid-20th century. Museums, books of poetry, academies of music, and journals of art criticism exist because of a felt need to accommodate, promote, explore, and otherwise reap the benefits of pre-existing, logically prior objects known as works of art. Much the same can be said of his concern with, and respect for, but far from automatic deference to, the remarks of art critics. Though based in literary criticism, the New Criticism could be, and should be, extended to the other arts, Beardsley thought: all art criticism should make a serious effort to recognize its objects as special, autonomous, and important in their own right, and not subservient to ulterior aims or values; all art criticism should attempt to understand how works of art workand what meanings and aesthetic properties they have; all art criticism should strive for objective and publicly accessible methods and standards to test its pronouncements. It could even be argued that everything that figures in our thinking and discourse, whether observable or non-observable, stands in need of a criterion or criteria. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
William K. Wimsatt: Intentional Fallacy And Affective Fallacy In New Criticism
The man with Three in Part V. As Austin says, it is in uttering a sentence with a certain meaning that is, in performing a locutionary act that we perform an illocutionary act. Thus an author can be wrong about what his own work means. In effect, this is a form of linguistic phenomenalism, and commits Beardsley to adequate translations of statements about aesthetic objects into statements about the presentations of such objects—in effect, statements about experiences of such objects. Beardsley, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Most philosophers would be dissatisfied with such a disjoint ontology, and Beardsley was no exception. The normative nature of a convention enables it to be relatively, though not wholly, resistant to contrary opinion. Readership should have a level of critical distance from the emotional impact of the text. 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. Common sense is certainly on her side.
Beardsley’s Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The will compete trying a rhetorical about the whole of life, proposition but the imagination has not seized upon the mater ials of the poem and made them into a whole. One demands that it work. Even if this response is acceptable, however, the question of what the perceptual properties of the Mona Lisa are, if two of its instances differ markedly in their perceptual properties due, say, to exposure to sunlight , would remain an odd one. IV is criticism There author takes can psychology, the form of of which and poetry when is, as we have seen, to the present or future but author psychology there applied inspirational too, and then we have a literary biography, and attractive as Mr. Internal evidence:this evidence is presented as the facts of a given work. What can be said against the definition? The second point concerns the distinction between direct and indirect evidence drawn by Beardsley.
William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy,” 1946
But why, Beardsley would ask in reply, are works of art so special? Works of art are defined in terms of the artworld; the artworld consists of people who have some sort of special doings with works of art. To make sure that the extension of the definiens matches that of the definiendum, the second disjunct of the definition is needed. These are perlocutionary acts. And the situation we in fact find ourselves in is just that of Alice. The intention is abstract and open to interpretation by the reader or speaker. 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.
Summary: "The Affective Fallacy," Wimsatt & Beardsley — English Class Ideas
Austin, a British philosopher who flourished shortly after World War II. It would thus seem to be external evidence, as Beardsley talks about it. It further argues that a work of art should not be evaluated through what the author had intended for the same. In both cases, the relation between the items is causal, yet in one the evidence is direct, and in the other indirect. This is an interesting and provocative argument, but it can be questioned at several points. BEARDSLEY owns with toil he wrote the following if spare him for his pains: naught, But, no him the have commiseration Damn on mature deliberation.
