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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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of affective fallacy1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
When making the case for Dark Souls, almost every defender stumbles into the affective fallacy, wherein the value of a work is tied to the emotions it dredges up from its audience.
From Slate
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