affective fallacy


noun
  1. a proposition in literary criticism that a poem should be analyzed and described in terms of its own internal structure and not in terms of the emotional response it arouses in the reader.

Origin of affective fallacy

1
First recorded in 1945–50

Words Nearby affective fallacy

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