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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Main Author: Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-2017 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1975]
Series:Cornell paperbacks.
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Genre/Form:Literary criticism

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