Todorov

"He [Las Casas] always considered the Blacks as unjustly and tyranically reduced to slavery, for the same reasons applied to them and to the Indians" (qtd. in Todorov 170).

London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic 2006

The conventional narrative in Todorov’s model — with its five “stages” of equilibrium, disruption, recognition, reaction, restitution — is not too different from a practical model of situation, problem, engagement, try/fail cycle, resolution.

On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

The conventional narrative in Todorov’s model — with its five “stages” of equilibrium, disruption, recognition, reaction, restitution — is not too different from a practical model of situation, problem, engagement, try/fail cycle, resolution.

Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Ms. Todorov, 64, says Roperti's reminds her of the late-1940s and 1950s, when Livonia served as the produce aisle for the then-fast-growing Motor City.

In This Detroit Suburb, Some Neighbors Are Real Turkeys Jeff Bennett 2011

That Thanksgiving, Ms. Todorov paid a return visit to the farm, which lies just across a chain-link fence from her backyard in this Detroit suburb.

In This Detroit Suburb, Some Neighbors Are Real Turkeys Jeff Bennett 2011

What I mean is, I guess, that where Todorov talks about a vague "disruption" of an equally vague "equilibrium," this model grounds that in the specifics of modality and thereby allows us to identify distinct types of disruption -- the various flavours of quirk.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

"Livonia had a lot of little farms sprinkled throughout the area, and people from Detroit would take a Sunday drive out to the country and drive up and down the dirt roads out here, buying fresh tomatoes or corn," says Ms. Todorov, whose grandfather kept a small farm nearby.

In This Detroit Suburb, Some Neighbors Are Real Turkeys Jeff Bennett 2011

I mean, I riff off Todorov and Clute, who seem to be riffing off Frye in their ideas of "narrative grammar".

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

One morning a few years ago, Karen Todorov was getting ready to leave for work when she spotted a pair of turkeys in her backyard looking at her.

In This Detroit Suburb, Some Neighbors Are Real Turkeys Jeff Bennett 2011

Ms. Todorov, who has lived in a subdivision behind the farm for 25 years, says that when the pen is crowded, the turkeys are oddly silent.

In This Detroit Suburb, Some Neighbors Are Real Turkeys Jeff Bennett 2011