{"product_id":"fantastic-tzvetan-todorov-9780801491467","title":"Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Fantastic\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an essay in fictional poetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Fantastic\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e The Sargasso Manuscript\u003c\/i\u003e, Nerval's \u003ci\u003eAur駘ia\u003c\/i\u003e, Balzac's \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, Cazotte's \u003ci\u003eLe Diable Amoureux\u003c\/i\u003e, Kafka's\u003ci\u003e The Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, and tales by E. T. A. Hoffman, Charles Perrault, Guy de Maupassant, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar A. Poe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tzvetan Todorov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801491460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801491467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/1975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.60w x 0.52d","brand":"Tzvetan Todorov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173030195455,"sku":"9780801491467","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fantastic-tzvetan-todorov-9780801491467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}