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https://doi.org/10.32728/tab.13.2.2015.08
Igor Grbić
Sažetak
The article offers a comprehensive analysis of the genetic fallacy, one of the fallacies in literary criticism. It is manifested as considering the author's life and the circumstances in which the work was written as relevant for a critical interpretation and evaluation of the work itself. The article shows that, in order to crystallize their common denominator, the fallacy in question should be understood as embracing various kinds of critical abuse registered so far (biographism, psychologism, etc.). Since literature and literary criticism are a world-wide phenomenon, the problem is viewed in a global perspecitve, which goes to show that no traditional culture fell into the trap of identifying the writer and his world with the literary work and the world it creates. The analysis of the Western situation concentrates on the nineteenth-century positivism and its modern offshoots, but also on the parallel efforts to distinguish the writer from the work. Attention is also given to the views of authors themselves. The very authorial instance turns out to be very controversial, which should only further encourage a concentration on literature as such.
Ključne riječi
Fallacy; genetic fallacy; author; biography; circumstances of creation; literary work
Hrčak ID:
159004
URI
Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2015.
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