This book examines and evaluates the critical position of R.S. Crane, the leader of the Chicago school of formalistic criticism. Crane and his colleagues in the University of Chicagao set a new trend in literary criticism in the very heyday of the New Criticism. His theory of criticism, popularly known as Critical Pluralism, is an answer to the inevitable limitations of nomistic criticism including the New Criticism. Crane shows us the way toward a multiple ...
