ABSTRACT
Aesthetics can be thought of, then, as the philosophy of criticism, or metacriticism". Consider Monroe C. Beardsley," whom Shusterman calls one of the "most influential figures in the 1950s and 1960s: Monroe C. Beardsley most famous essay was co authored with a literary critic". In fact, two famous essays—"The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy"—were produced by this pair, and those were later supplemented, by the essay on meter, all three essays exemplifying the concern of analytic aesthetics to assemble those "principles that are required for clarifying and confirming critical statements". Rene Wellek is often credited for bringing knowledge of Ingarden's work to Anglo-American critics, and his summary creditably reflects Ingarden's overall project, which was first set out in The Literary Work of Art: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Literature.
