What is affective fallacy ?

Literary Theory and Criticism 17/01/2022

A. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above answers are correct.

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