What is affective fallacy ?

A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader

C. An important term in the field of New Historicism

D. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley

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