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Overview

Tzvetan Todorov was a researcher affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their academic work spanned key fields related to arts and humanities, focusing particularly on psychology, linguistics, and literature.

The main fields of study in their research included:

  • Arts and Humanities

Their contributions also covered several subfields which reflected interdisciplinary interests and approaches:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Language and Linguistics

Todorov's research addressed prominent topics such as psychology and mental health, as well as linguistics and educational studies. The specific topics encompassed:

  • Psychology and Mental Health
  • Linguistics and Education Research
  • Linguistics and Language Studies

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • " La vie est une œuvre en soi " (2020) published in Sciences Humaines
  • Freud sobre a enunciação (2022) published in Discurso

Todorov collaborated with a number of co-authors during their career. Frequent collaborators included:

  • João Caramalho Domingues
  • Henk de Berg
  • Karine Zbinden

Their publications appeared in journals such as:

  • Sciences Humaines
  • Discurso

In addition to articles, Todorov authored books, including:

  • : (2020), published by eBooks

Tzvetan Todorov was deceased at the time of this profile. Their scholarly output shows a consistent engagement with interdisciplinary subjects intertwining psychology, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies.

Best Publications

  • The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • The poetics of prose

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle

    Tzvetan Todorov;Wlad Godzich

  • Los abusos de la memoria

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Genres in Discourse

    Tzvetan Todorov;Catherine Porter

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

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Introduction à la littérature fantastique

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Esthétique de la création verbale

    M. M. Bakhtin;Alfreda Aucouturier;Tzvetan Todorov

  • The Origin of Genres

    Tzvetan Todorov;Richard M. Berrong

  • Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences du langage

    Oswald Ducrot;Tzvetan Todorov

  • Diccionario enciclopédico de las ciencias del lenguaje

    Tzvetan Todorov;Oswald Ducrot

  • Les catégories du récit littéraire

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Structural Analysis of Narrative

    Tzvetan Todorov;Arnold Weinstein

  • Les Abus de la mémoire

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • La Conquete de l'Amerique; la question de l'autre.

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • Mikhaïl Bakhtine : le principe dialogique

    Tzvetan Todorov;M. M. Bakhtin

  • Nous et les autres : la réflexion française sur la diversité humaine

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • As estruturas narrativas

    Tzvetan Todorov

  • " Race," Writing, and Difference

    Tzvetan Todorov;Loulou Mack

  • The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays@@@Mikhail Bakhtine le principe dialogique suivi de Ecrits du Cercle de Bakhtine

    John Sturrock;M. M. Bakhtin;Michael Holquist;Caryl Emerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson Harvard University
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva Université Paris Cité
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss Université Paris Cité
Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler Cornell University

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