LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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The pathetic fallacy
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The intentional fallacy
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The affective fallacy
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The objective correlative
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Detailed explanation-1: -intentional fallacy, term used in 20th-century literary criticism to describe the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention.
Detailed explanation-3: -Formalism describes the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form – the way it is made and its purely visual aspects – rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world.
Detailed explanation-4: -A formalist critic examines the form of the work as a whole, the form of each individual part of the text (the individual scenes and chapters), the characters, the settings, the tone, the point of view, the diction, and all other elements of the text which join to make it a single text.
Detailed explanation-5: -For example, if a 5-year old drew a picture of a cat, but I thought it looked more like a horse, I can’t judge the picture on the 5-year old’s intention for it to be a cat.