The New Criticism made the literary work the center of critical attention, and denied, or at least greatly devaluated, the relevance of facts about the origin of literary works, their effects upon individual readers, and their personal, social, and political influence.
Justice Scalia in turn disputed the relevance of that fact.
But the relevance of this fact to literature as an art is extremely dubious.
"Mr Spearman submitted that the only relevance of the fact that the lady also worked for RBS was that that might have made the affair more distracting than it would have been with someone who Sir Fred Goodwin only came across at the weekend", Tugendhat added.
In our earlier example, the relevance of the fact that the accused has type A blood depends obviously on the state of the world.
The relevance of that fact to determining whether Ohio State should be the first non-conference champion to ascend to the National Playoff is unclear.
The clinical relevance of the fact that the patients' post-exercise values approached those of the control group, remains, however, unclear.
Nothing could be more obvious, she insisted, than the relevance of empirical facts about how the brain works to concerns in the philosophy of mind.
Whatever the moral relevance of these facts, they do not count as consent, for people do these things without imagining they will create obligations, and they do them in circumstances in which they have no feasible alternative.
Despite the critical importance and overwhelming relevance of these facts, their use in the marketing of organic cotton tampons is not permitted.
