The correct answer is 3. II and III because Monroe C. Beardsley and William K. Wimsatt Jr. are the two scholars responsible for the influential papers "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy."
Here’s an explanation:
Monroe C. Beardsley and William K. Wimsatt Jr. co-authored the famous essays "The Intentional Fallacy" (1946) and "The Affective Fallacy" (1949). These works challenged traditional ways of interpreting literature by arguing against looking into an author’s intent (the Intentional Fallacy) or a reader’s emotional response (the Affective Fallacy) to evaluate the meaning of a work.
Cleanth Brooks (I) was also a major literary critic, but his focus was on New Criticism. While he contributed significantly to literary theory, he was not involved in writing the essays in question.
R.P. Blackmur (IV) was a prominent critic too, but like Cleanth Brooks, he wasn’t the author of these particular essays.
Thus, II and III (Monroe C. Beardsley and William K. Wimsatt Jr.) are the correct pair for this question.
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