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Fallacy? by Morse Peckham Nowadays in literary academic circles one hears The critic of the arguments in that essay is faced with with increasing frequency such remarks as, "The the problem of distinguishing between the essay it­ self and the popular use that has been made of it, for New Criticism is a dead issue," or "The New Critics what is widely taken for granted as established truth have had their day; it's all over with." However a was not argued in that essay and could not have more accurate statement of the current condition is been successfully argued in the essay. Although that the tenets of the New Criticism have so deeply Wimsatt and Beardsley carefully distinguished be­ tween three types of intentional evidence, acknowl­ entered current teaching, scholarship, and criticism edging that two of them are proper and admissible, that if the issues are dead, it is only because the New their careful distinctions and qualifications have Critical solution to those issues has completely now vanished in the popular version which consists triumphed. Certainly, the more sophisticated under­ in the false and facile dogma that what an author graduate and graduate students I have recently en­ intended is irrelevant to the meaning of his text. (.p. countered now take attitudes as self-evident which 11). only a generation ago were heatedly argued against by what used to be called the old-fashioned bio­ I admire Hirsch's book, but it has serious weak­ graphical critic. Of the various bits of critical jargon nesses, and this discussion of the intentional fallacy which were once, at any rate, worth fighting about, is among its least convincing sections. He has excel­ perhaps the most commonly encountered is the "in­ lently expressed what he calls "the popular version" tentional fallacy." in the title of the section in which the discussion The first of two famous articles by Professor Mon­