William K. Wimsatt
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American academic
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Why Is William K. Wimsatt Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr. was an American professor of English, literary theorist, and critic. Wimsatt is often associated with the concept of the intentional fallacy, which he developed with Monroe Beardsley in order to question the importance of an author's intentions for the creation of a work of art.
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- GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT AND CHAUCER'S "TROILUS AND CRISEYDE" (1976) (7)
- GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT AND CHAUCER'S LOVE LYRICS (1976) (6)
- THE SOURCES OF CHAUCER'S 'SEYS AND ALCYONE' (1967) (5)
- Poetry and Christian Thinking (1951) (5)
- Symbol and Metaphor (1950) (4)
- Poetry and Morals: A Relation Reargued (1948) (3)
- Two Meanings of Symbolism: A Grammatical Exercise (1955) (1)
- Two Meanings of Symbolism: A Grammatical Exercise (con't) (1955) (0)
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