Brunetière

[bryn^uh-tyer]

noun

1. Ferdinand 1849–1906, French literary critic.

Example Sentences

That literature and language, we have been told by no less an authority than M. Brunetière, are pre-eminently social in their strength and their weakness.

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Brunetière, who was serious to solemnity, and lacked a funny bone, declared that Huysmans borrowed the incident from a popular vaudeville, Le Voyage à Dieppe, by Fulgence and Wafflard.

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Huysmans loved Baudelaire as much as Brunetière detested him.

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He sums up Ferdinand Brunetière as "constipé," a sound definition of a shrewd, unsympathetic critic.

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He has told us that because of the diversity of his aptitudes man is distinguished from his fellow animals, and the variety in his labours is a proof positive of his superiority to such fellow critics as the mentally constipated Brunetière, the impressionistic Anatole France, the agile and graceful Lemaître, and the pedantic philistine Faguet.

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