We already have done with Affective fallacy. Let's see what intentional fallacy is.
Intentional Fallacy signifies what is claimed to be the error of interpreting
and evaluating a literary work by reference to evidence, outside the text itself, for the intention—the design and purposes—of its author.
The term was proposed by W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley in "The Intentional Fallacy" (1946), reprinted in Wimsatt's The Verbal Icon (1964).
They asserted that an author's intended aims and meanings in writing a literary work—whether these are asserted by the author or merely inferred from our knowledge of the
author's life and opinions—are irrelevant to the literary critic, because the meaning, structure, and value of a text are inherent within the finished, free-standing, and public work of literature itself.
Reference to the author's supposed purposes, or else to the author's personal situation and state of mind in writing a text, is held to be a harmful mistake, because it diverts our attention to such "external" matters as the author's biography, or psychological condition, or creative process, which we substitute for the proper critical concern with the "internal" constitution and inherent value of the literary product.
This claim, which was central in the New Criticism, has been strenuously
debated, and was reformulated by both of its original proponents.
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