Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author's intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?
Correct answer: B. The intentional fallacy
- A. The pathetic fallacy
- B. The intentional fallacy
- C. The affective fallacy
- D. The objective correlative
Explanation
The intentional fallacy is the error of judging a work by the author's stated or supposed intention rather than by the work itself. The affective fallacy instead concerns judging a work by its emotional effect on readers.
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