Literary Criticism of R.S. Crane: Theory and Practice (Hardbound - 2003)

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 Chicago 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 monistic criticism including the New Criticism. Crane shows us the way toward a multiple response to a literary text, and thereby points out the significance or utility of the diverse critical theories. In the field of practical criticism also Crane has left a genuine mark by emphasizing the need of a formal-structural approach to the literary texts. The book will be of immense help to the scholars and literary critics.

Dr. Asit Kumar Biswas is a Reader in the Department of English (P.G. & U.G.) of Bankura Christian College, Bankura, under the University of Burdwan (West Bengal). His area of special interest is ‘Literary Criticism’ and he has contributed scholarly papers in this field to different journals and critical anthologies. He also takes much interest in modern literature.

Dr. Biswas is also actively working in the field of distance education as the Coordinator of BCC Study Centre under Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal.