NEO-ARISTOTELIANISM
(CHICAGO SCHOOL)

The term Neo-Aristotelianism refers to a school of literary criticism developed during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s at the University of Chicago, hence its other name: the Chicago School.  A basically formalist approach, it differed from the New Critics in its emphasis on the study of prose fiction and the role of plot-structure therein.  To this end, it made use of certain concepts and categories (such as 'plot' and 'catharsis') derived from Aristotle's Poetics in particular.

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• R. S. Crane (1886 - 1967)

• Richard McKeon (1900 - 1985)

• Norman Maclean (1902 - 1990)

• Elder Olson (1909 - 1992)

• Bernard Weinberg (1909 - 1973)

• W. R. Keast (1914 - )

• Wayne C. Booth (1921 - 2005)

• Norman Friedman ( - )

• Sheldon Sacks (1930 - 1979)

• Ralph W. Rader (1930 - )

• Walter A. Davis (1942 - )

• Peter J. Rabinowitz (1944 - )

• David H. Richter (1945 - )

• James Phelan (1951 - )

• Adena Rosmarin ( - )

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• Anthologies:

  • Crane, R. S., ed.  Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  Abridged Edition, 1957.

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• Anthologies:

  • , ed.  Special Issue on Chicago School.  Profession 82 (1982).

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Booth, Wayne.  "Between Two Generations: the Heritage of the Chicago School."  Profession 82 (1982): 19-26.

  • Corman, Brian.  "Chicago Critics."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.  143-145.

  • Leitch, Vincent B. "The Chicago School."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  60-81.

  • McKeon, Richard.  "Criticism and the Liberal Arts: the Chicago School of Criticism."  Profession 82 (1982): .

  • Ransom, John Crowe.  "Humanism at Chicago."  Kenyon Review 14 (1952): .

  • Richter, David H.  "The Second Flight of the Phoenix: Neo-Aristotelianism Since Crane."  Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 23 (1982): 27-48.

  • Sprinker, Michael.  "What is Living and What is Dead in Chicago Criticism."  boundary 2 (1985): 189-212.

  • Vivas, Eliseo.  "The Neo-Aristotelians of Chicago."  Sewanee Review 52 (1944): .

  • Wimsatt, W. K.  "The Chicago Critics: the Fallacy of the Neoclassic Species."  The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry.  Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1954.  41-65.

On-Line:

• Corman, Brian: Chicago Critics (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Cox, Stephen: Literary Theory

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Chicago School

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