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Tzvetan Todorov The Fantastic (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Fantastic : a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
- Publication Name
- The Fantastic
- Title
- The Fantastic
- Subtitle
- A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
- Translator
- Richard Howard
- Contributor
- Robert Scholes (Introduction by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0801491460
- EAN
- 9780801491467
- ISBN
- 9780801491467
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Genre
- Art, Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 31/05/1975
- Release Year
- 1975
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1975
- Features
- Reprint
- Topic
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Semiotics & Theory
- Number of Pages
- 190 Pages
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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 Aur lia , 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.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801491460
ISBN-13
9780801491467
eBay Product ID (ePID)
243451
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fantastic : a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1975
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
190 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn3435.T613 1975
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"This, the first of Todorov's books to be translated into English (it was originally published in French in 1970), is brilliant. . . . Todorov's attempt to formulate a general theory for studying themes without subordinating literary theory to the social sciences makes this book indispensable to serious students of lietarture."--Library Journal, "This work is much more than what its title might imply to an American reader. It is not simply another 'formalist' categorizing of a particular literary genre. Todorov involves himself in a consideration of the concept of literary genre (with a perceptive critique of Northrop Frye), a detailed and perceptive discourse on 'the fantastic,' . . . and finally a philosophical-historical discussion of the relation of 'the fantastic' to literature itself. . . . This is an important work for anyone interested in criticism in general or in the criticism of fiction in particular."-Choice, "This work is much more than what its title might imply to an American reader. It is not simply another 'formalist' categorizing of a particular literary genre. Todorov involves himself in a consideration of the concept of literary genre (with a perceptive critique of Northrop Frye), a detailed and perceptive discourse on 'the fantastic,' . . . and finally a philosophical-historical discussion of the relation of 'the fantastic' to literature itself. . . . This is an important work for anyone interested in criticism in general or in the criticism of fiction in particular."--Choice, "This, the first of Todorov's books to be translated into English (it was originally published in French in 1970), is brilliant. . . . Todorov's attempt to formulate a general theory for studying themes without subordinating literary theory to the social sciences makes this book indispensable to serious students of lietarture."-Library Journal
Table of Content
Foreword, by Robert Scholes 1. Literary Genres 2. Definition of the Fantastic 3. The Uncanny and the Marvelous 4. Poetry and Allegory 5. Discourse of the Fantastic 6. Themes of the Fantastic: Introduction 7. Themes of the Self 8. Themes of the Other 9. Themes of the Fantastic: Conclusion 10. Literature and the Fantastic Index
Copyright Date
1975
Lccn
74-010407
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