When1: 1954
When2: 1970
Who: Monroe C. Beardsley [Beardsley, Monroe C.]
What: philosopher
Where: England/USA
works\ Intentional Fallacy [1954: with W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.]; Aesthetics [1958]; Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present [1960]; Possibility of Criticism [1970]
Detail: He lived 1915 to 1985.
Aesthetics
People can interpret artworks using creator's intentions, but should not. Works can contain only some aspects of creator intentions and not contain others {intentional fallacy}. People should study texts using only the words {new criticism}, not author intentions, history, feelings, or beliefs.
Epistemology
Truth is only in the text, because author had no intentions, feelings, or historical knowledge or used only part of them.
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