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Unit 4 · Literary Criticism and Theory English · 2021 cycle (Shift 1)

Who among the following belong to the Chicago School of critics?

  1. A. R. S. Crane
  2. B. E. M. W. Tillyard
  3. C. Elder Olson
  4. D. Allen Tate

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Correct answer: A. A and C only

Explanation

The neo-Aristotelian Chicago critics (Critics and Criticism, 1952) were Crane, Olson, Richard McKeon and later Wayne Booth. Tillyard was a Cambridge historicist, and Tate a New Critic.

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