affective fallacy
noun
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
1First recorded in 1945–50
Words Nearby affective fallacy
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