The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre / Tzvetan Todorov ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; with a new foreword by Robert Scholes.
"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 histor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
[1975]
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| Series: | Cornell paperbacks.
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| Genre/Form: | Literary criticism |
| Summary: | "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."--Amazon. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of Introduction à la littérature fantastique. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 180 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0801491460 9780801491467 |
| Language: | Translation of: Introduction à la littérature fantastique. |