Hippolyte Taine
Author
1828 – 1893
Who was Hippolyte Taine?
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is particularly remembered for his three-pronged approach to the contextual study of a work of art, based on the aspects of what he called "race, milieu, and moment".
Taine had a profound effect on French literature; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica asserted that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's."
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1828
Vouziers - Also known as
- Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Died
- Mar 5, 1893
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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