id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1745 Hippolyte Taine - Wikipedia .html text/html 4201 736 68 Taine based his analysis on the categories of what in English would be translated today as "nation", "environment" or "situation", and "time".[20][21] Armin Koller has written that in this Taine drew heavily from the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, although this has been insufficiently recognised,[22] while the Spanish writer Emilia Pardo Bazán has suggested that a crucial predecessor to Taine's idea was the Germaine de Staël's work on the relationship between art and society.[23] Nationalist literary movements and post-modern critics alike have made use of Taine's concepts, the former to argue for their unique and distinct place in literature[24] and the latter to deconstruct the texts with regards to the relationship between literature and social history. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1745.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1745.txt