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Name: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Birth Date: April 21, 1828
Death Date: March 9, 1893
Place of Birth: Vouziers, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: critic, historian

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Biography of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
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The French critic and historian Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893) was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of his period in France. His emphasis on scientific methods in criticism formed the basis of contemporary critical techniques....


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Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe (1828–1893) Summary
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Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe(1828–1893) Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine was a philosopher, psychologist, historian, and critic. Taine and Ernest Renan were the leading French positivistic thinkers of the second half of the nineteenth century. As a result of...
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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...


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Nineteenth-Century French Studies
The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine.(Review) (book review)
03/22/2001: 999 words, approx. 3 pages
Nias, Hilary. The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine. Oxford: Legenda. European Humanities Research Centre, U of Oxford. Modern Humanities Research Assn. 1999. Pp. 259. ISBN 1-900755-18-1 This work is not, the author explains in her introduction, a study of psychology,...
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The Modern Language Review
The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine.(Review)(Brief Article)
07/01/2001: 505 words, approx. 2 pages
The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine. By HILARY NIAS. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, MHRA. 1999. 259 pp. Given the relative dearth of serious work on the writers who formed the philosophical backbone to nineteenth-century literary France, a study...
 


 

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