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A whole group of scholars at the University of Chicago during the 1940s called themselves neo-Aristotelians, and Aristotle's influence is felt even outside of the group. Gerald F. Else has written a voluminous commentary on the poetics (1957).
Francis Fergusson, whose central conception of tragedy is rather mythic, constantly appeals to Aristotle's analysis of dramatic structure. In an introduction to poetics, he has drawn up an elaborate scheme to reconcile Aristotle's analysis of Oedipus Rex with the ritual forms of Greek drama as reconstructed by Gilbert Murray and his school. Philip Wheelwright and Kenneth Burke have Aristotle constantly in mind.
The Chicago Aristotelians, do not commit themselves, in theory, to anything so crude as a doctrinaire acceptance of Aristotle's system R. S. Crane, in his introduction to the programmatic volume, critics and criticism (1952) rather proclaims a pluralistic and instrumentalist view of criticism, Consider their Aristotelianism a strictly pragmatic and not exclusive commitment, and admits even that this or any other interpreter's Aristotle may not be Aristotle at all.
But in practice, Crane's Method of multiple hypotheses is constantly abandoned by the Chicago critics in favour of a dogmatic scheme which serves as a polemical instrument against the new criticism and the propounders of symbolist and mythic interpretations of literature.
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