Hippolyte Taine
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| - | '''Hippolyte Adolphe Taine''' ([[April 21]], [[1828]] - [[March 5]], [[1893]]) was a [[France|French]] [[critic]] and [[historian]]. He was the chief theoretical influence of French [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalism]], a major proponent of [[sociological positivism]], and one of the first practitioners of [[historicism|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'''. | + | '''Hippolyte Adolphe Taine''' ([[April 21]], [[1828]] - [[March 5]], [[1893]]) was a [[France|French]] [[critic]] and [[historian]]. He was the chief theoretical influence of French [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalism]], a major proponent of [[sociological positivism]], and one of the first practitioners of [[historicism|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 Encyclopedia 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." | Taine had a profound effect on [[French literature]]; the [[1911 Encyclopedia 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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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (April 21, 1828 - March 5, 1893) 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 Encyclopedia 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."
