Affective fallacy
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.
noun
in literary criticism, the theory that poetry’s internal structure should be analyzed and described as opposed to its emotional effect on the reader; also, the misconception that a poem’s emotional effect on the reader determines its value
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of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional. causing emotion or feeling. Historical Examples affectively she was remarkably frank, sometimes a little surly, or she showed a slight empty uneasiness. Benign Stupors August Hoch adjective (psychol) relating to affects concerned with or arousing the emotions or affection affective af·fec·tive (ə-fěk’tĭv) adj. Concerned with or […]
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