The author’s intention should not be an area addressed in literary criticism.

The intentional fallacy summary. Beardsley, two of the most eminent figures of the new criticism school of thought of literary criticism,. Beardsley in their book the verbal icon in 1954. He earned a ba from bennington college and.

But, if they're naught, ne'er spare him for his pains: They first published “the intentional fallacy” in 1946. In the intentional fallacy, w.k.

Beardsley in an essay of 1946 to describe the common assumption that an author's declared or assumed. It liberates the act of readership from the omniscience of the author. According to this theory, the act of reading should be based on.

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One of the major problems arising in literary scholarship from the intentional fallacy, according to the authors, concerns the poetic use of allusion by writers such as t. The intentional fallacy was published by w.k. A phrase coined by the american new critics w.

Poet and editor reginald shepherd was born in new york city and grew up in the bronx. The essay was later included in their the verbal icon. The intentional fallacy by w.