Passage: [Reference to Intentional Fallacy text above]
Which of the following phrases from the passage best encapsulates the text's relationship with its author?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. 'Achieves an autonomous life detached from its creator's mental state'
- Step 1: Locate the theoretical core of the argument: once published, a literary work exists independently of its author's psychological state.
- Step 2: The phrase describing this phenomenon emphasizes the work's independent existence in the public domain.
- Step 3: Therefore, the text 'achieves an autonomous life detached from its creator's mentality'.
Answer
'Achieves an autonomous life detached from its creator's mental state'.
Why not the others: 'Locked away inside the author's biographical psyche' is the exact fallacy the text rejects; 'Stated psychological intentions should serve as the standard' directly contradicts the New Critical stance; 'Constructed exclusively by syntactic phonetics' is an overly narrow linguistic claim not argued in the text.
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