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Intentional Fallacy

The "Intentional Fallacy" is a critical concept in literary theory denoting the error of conflating an author's intended meaning with the meaning of a text, thereby improperly treating authorial intention as the authoritative determinant of textual interpretation within the broader category of interpretive fallacies.

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‘THE INTENTIONAL FALLACY’

Edward Larrissy · Essays in Criticism · 1973 · 433 citations

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An Exploratory Study of Trolling in Online Video Gaming

Scott Thacker, Mark D. Griffiths · International Journal of Cyber Behavior Psychology and Learning · 2012 · 125 citations

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Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’

Jonathan Charteris‐Black · Metaphor and the Social World · 2012 · 93 citations · Full text

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Fictions of autonomy: modernism from Wilde to de Man

Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 82 citations

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Interpretation and Intention: The Debate between Hypothetical and Actual Intentionalism

Noël Carroll · Metaphilosophy · 2000 · 71 citations

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Authors

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  1. NC
    Noël Carroll

    University of Limerick, Ireland

    3 publications · 144 citations

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  2. SW
    Steven W. Dykstra

    2 publications · 60 citations

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  3. MD
    Mark D. Griffiths

    Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 125 citations

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  4. JG
    Joshua Gang

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  5. AH
    Andrew Huddleston

    Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 14 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Western Washington University

    Bellingham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  2. City University of New York

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  3. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    71 citations

  4. Keele University

    Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  5. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    106 citations

  6. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  7. New York University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    58 citations

  8. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

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Venues

  1. The British Journal of Aesthetics

    3 publications · 82 citations

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  2. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

    3 publications · 101 citations

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  3. Mind

    2 publications · 34 citations

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  4. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation

    JAIC · 2 publications · 60 citations

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  5. Metaphilosophy

    1 publications · 71 citations

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