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The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Tzvetan Todorov (Paperback, 1975)
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In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, moving back and forth between a poetics of the fantastic itself and a metapoetics or theory of theorizing, even as he suggest that one must, as a critic, move back and forth between theory and history, between idea and fact. His work on the fantastic is indeed about a historical phenomenon that we recognize, about specific works that we may read, but it is also about the use and abuse of generic theory. As an essay in fictional poetics, The Fantastic is consciously structuralist in its approach to the generic subject. Todorov seeks linguistic bases for the structural features he notes in a variety of fantastic texts, including Potocki's The Sargasso Manuscript, Nerval's Aurelia, Balzac's The Magic Skin, the Arabian Nights, Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureux, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and tales by E. T. A. Hoffman, Charles Perrault, Guy de Maupassant, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar A. Poe.Product Identifiers
PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN-139780801491467
eBay Product ID (ePID)86535339
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Fantastic: a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
AuthorTzvetan Todorov
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Books
Publication Year1975
GenreFantasy
Number of Pages190 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTzvetan Todorov
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 21 May, 2019
The fantastic - useful
Useful book for scholars who deal with literary theory, criticism, and with the genre of the fantastic.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
