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Tzvetan Todorov

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
France

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Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 47 Citations 9,520 129 World Ranking 1932 National Ranking 23

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

Law
Social science
Epistemology

His main research concerns Literature, Linguistics, Literary genre, Structural approach and Social science. His research in Literature intersects with topics in Form of the Good, Impulse and Anachronism. Tzvetan Todorov is interested in Poetics, which is a field of Linguistics.

Tzvetan Todorov connects Literary genre with Film genre in his study. The concepts of his Social science study are interwoven with issues in Racism, Social psychology, Humanism and Persecution.

His most cited work include:

The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (688 citations)
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (594 citations)
The poetics of prose (429 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Literature, Linguistics, Epistemology, Social science and Poetics are his primary areas of study. His Literature research includes themes of Ideology and Reading. His research on Social science often connects related areas such as Humanism.

He most often published in these fields:

Literature (13.75%)
Linguistics (5.00%)
Epistemology (5.00%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2006-2019)?

Enlightenment (3.12%)
Civilization (2.50%)
Barbarism (2.50%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Tzvetan Todorov focuses on Enlightenment, Civilization, Barbarism, Spanish Civil War and Social science. His Enlightenment research integrates issues from Autonomy and Law. Tzvetan Todorov interconnects Anthropology, National identity, Cultural identity and Ancient history in the investigation of issues within Civilization.

As part of one scientific family, Tzvetan Todorov deals mainly with the area of Social science, narrowing it down to issues related to the Peasant, and often Humanism, Aesthetics and Poetry. His Fall of man research incorporates themes from Literature, Communism and Ideology. The study incorporates disciplines such as Classics and Democracy in addition to Ideology.

Between 2006 and 2019, his most popular works were:

La littérature en péril (39 citations)
The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations (26 citations)
El miedo a los bárbaros (17 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

Law
Epistemology
Social science

Tzvetan Todorov mostly deals with Enlightenment, Law, Democracy, Political economy and Poetry. His studies deal with areas such as Civilization, Politics, Barbarism, Religious studies and Terrorism as well as Enlightenment. His work on Collective identity as part of general Law study is frequently linked to Torture, bridging the gap between disciplines.

His studies in Poetry integrate themes in fields like Classics, Ideology, Scholarship and Reading. His research integrates issues of Literature, Silence, Adventure and Communism in his study of Scholarship.

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Best Publications

The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre

Tzvetan Todorov.
(1973)

1075 Citations

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

Tzvetan Todorov.
(1984)

930 Citations

The poetics of prose

Tzvetan Todorov.
(1977)

661 Citations

Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle

Tzvetan Todorov;Wlad Godzich.
(1986)

542 Citations

Os géneros do discurso

Tzvetan Todorov.
(1981)

367 Citations

Genres in Discourse

Tzvetan Todorov;Catherine Porter.
(1990)

324 Citations

Los abusos de la memoria

Tzvetan Todorov.
(2000)

289 Citations

Esthétique de la création verbale

M. M. Bakhtin;Alfreda Aucouturier;Tzvetan Todorov.
(1984)

282 Citations

Introduction à la littérature fantastique

Tzvetan Todorov.
Books Abroad (1971)

264 Citations

On human diversity : nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought

Tzvetan Todorov.
Foreign Affairs (1993)