Brandeis University
Spring semester, 2003
ENG 171A: History of Literary Criticism
Miles Rind
March 28, 2003

ASSIGNMENT FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 1

        Reading: (1) Hippolyte Taine, excerpt from History of English Literature (CT, 609–620)
        (2) Emile Zola, excerpts from The Experimental Novel (CT, 645–655)

        Question: Explain one respect in which either criticism, according to Taine, or novel-writing, according to Zola, may be “scientific.”


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