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Brunetière

[ brynuh-tyer ]

noun

  1. Fer·di·nand [fe, r, -dee-, nahn], 1849–1906, French literary critic.


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Provençal verse in general cannot be said to possess majesty or the rich orchestral quality Brunetière finds in Victor Hugo.

Even so learned a critic as the late M. Brunetière thought that things of the kind were not older than Balzac.

De Brunetière said that, after fifty years of discussion, it was impossible to define romanticism.

The orthodox opinion of the present time is that which is generally associated with the name of the late Ferdinand Brunetière.

Shakespeare's conception of tragedy was very different from Aristotle's, and very different from Brunetière's or Ibsen's.

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