Wimsatt & Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy” N. W& B, “The Affective Fallacy” N. 2/17 Marxism. Marx, from The Communist Manifesto N. Marx, from the German Ideology N. Marx, from Grundrisse N. Marx, preface to Critique of Political Economy P. Marx, “Fetishism of Commodities” P. Benjamin, “The Author as Producer” pdf. Wimsatt is often associated with the concept of the intentional fallacy, which he developed with Monroe Beardsley in order to discuss the importance of an author's intentions for the creation of a work of art. [1] Life and career. Wimsatt was born in Washington D.C., attended Georgetown University and, later, Yale University, where he received his Ph.D.
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W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley wrote in their essay The Intentional Fallacy: 'the design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art.'[1] The author, they argue, cannot be reconstructed from a writing - the text is the only source of meaning, and any details of the author's desires or life...more
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Feb 27, 2019Tuhin Bhowal rated it it was amazing
'Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant; what is irrelevant has been excluded, like 'lumps' from pudding and 'bugs' from machinery.'
Jul 28, 2015Basilius rated it liked it
There is a gross body of life, of sensory and mental experience, which lies behind and in some cases causes every poem, but can never be and need not be known in the verbal and hence intellectual composition which is the poem. For all the objects of our manifold experience, especially for the intellectual objects, for every unity, there is an action of the mind which cuts off roots, melts away context—or indeed we should never have objects or ideas or anything to talk about.
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Sep 10, 2013Momina Masood rated it it was ok
Wimsatt has kept in the tradition of Foucault and Barthes in maintaining that the author or, more specifically here, the author’s intention is not significant for the interpretation of any piece of text. Who cares what the writer meant? It is not that the ‘authorial intent’ is unworthy in some respect, but the point is that we, as readers, can never know what it is, or can never be certain that it is what we think it is, anyway. Well. I don't agree completely. Some examples of confessional poetr...more
Way more potable than 'Death of the Author.' I agree with about 90% of their argument. Very convincing.
Jan 21, 2016Shefali Mehta rated it liked it
This essay is no great matter, but it is simple and makes a fine point. It gives a firm perspective to begin critical examination of any piece of literature. A pastiche of critical opinions is not what critical enquiry means. This essay shows what we should seek when we seek the meaning of a literary work. It guards against being obsessed with the poet/author's 'intended' meaning. It draws the fine line of distinction between the internal, private and historical meanings of a text.
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It was quite a superb base for critically analysing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and was a large part of my Extension English assignment this year, strongly recommend for anyone who is dunce enough to do that subject
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“Is not a critic,' asks Professor Stoll, '... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?” — 4 likes