The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean. Using sixteenth-century sources, the distinguished French writer and critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the beliefs and behavior of the Spanish conquistadors and of the Aztecs, adversaries in a clash of cultures that resulted in the near extermination of Mesoamerica s Indian...
The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century Am...
A study examining the complex relationship between "ethics" and "history". He confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and 19th-century colonialism, to democracy and conflicts of the "self" versus the "other".
A study examining the complex relationship between "ethics" and "history". He confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and 19th-century c...
The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring such issues as how one practices and assesses equality among different societies, Todorov confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and nineteenth-century colonialism, to democracy and conflicts of the Self versus the Other.
The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring...
Focusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied in the works of classical rhetoric to an exploration of representative modern concepts of the symbol found in ethnology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and poetics, Todorov examines the rich tradition of sign theory. In the course of his discussion Todorov treats the works of such writers as Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Condillac, Lessing, Diderot, Goethe, Novalis, the Schlegel brothers, Levy-Bruhl, Freud, Saussure, and Jakobson.
Focusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied ...
This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre. Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry. Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe,...
This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate o...
In Symbolism and Interpretation, Tzvetan Todorov examines two aspects of discourse: its production, which has traditionally been the domain of rhetoric, and its reception, which has always been the object of hermeneutics. He analyzes the diverse theories of symbolism and interpretation that have been elaborated over the centuries and considers their contribution to a general theory of verbal symbolism, discussing a wide range of thinkers, from the Sanskrit philosophers and Aristotle to the German Romantics and contemporary semioticians.
Todorov begins by examining general...
In Symbolism and Interpretation, Tzvetan Todorov examines two aspects of discourse: its production, which has traditionally been the domai...
Part history, part confession, part manifesto, Literature and Its Theorists is Tzvetan Todorov's bold statement of what literature is and what criticism should be, and is the final volume in Todorov's trilogy devoted to the theory and tradition of literary criticism, which also includes Theories of the Symbol, and Symbolism and Interpretation. This book represents the contemporary ideological debate in criticism as an opposition between classical dogmatism and modern relativism, or nihilism.
Todorov seeks to break out of this paralyzing dichotomy and to achieve a morally committed...
Part history, part confession, part manifesto, Literature and Its Theorists is Tzvetan Todorov's bold statement of what literature is and what crit...
"Wenngleich jedes Datum, das zwei Epochen gegeneinander abgrenzen soll, immer willkürlich bleibt, so ist doch keines besser geeignet, den Beginn des modernen Zeitalters zu markieren, als das Jahr 1492, das Jahr, in dem Colón den Atlantischen Ozean überquert. Wir alle sind indirekte Nachkommen Colóns, mit ihm beginnt unsere Genealogie - sofern das Wort Beginn überhaupt einen Sinn hat. Seit 1492 sind wir, wie es Las Casas ausgedrückt hat, in dieser so neuen und keiner anderen vergleichbaren Zeit (Historia de las Indias, I, 88-). Seit diesem Datum ist die Welt geschlossen (obwohl das...
"Wenngleich jedes Datum, das zwei Epochen gegeneinander abgrenzen soll, immer willkürlich bleibt, so ist doch keines besser geeignet, den Beginn des ...
A 1982 anthology of studies by French literary theorists representing the most significant contributions to the field made in France in the preceding fifteen years.
A 1982 anthology of studies by French literary theorists representing the most significant contributions to the field made in France in the preceding ...
