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Works of Emile Zola: Philosophical Influences On Zola

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Zola, Emile

Zola, Emile
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Philosophical Influences On Zola

Among the extra-literary luminaries from the world of philosophy and
criticism to be of monumental influence upon Emile Zola were such men, among
others, as Hippolyte Taine, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx.

Taine's Influence

Taine systematized and developed various earlier theories of heredity
and environment and hoped to make literary criticism a science. As all
integral parts of a scientific organism were to maintain certain necessary
connections, so too all the parts of a work, a man, or a period were to ...

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