Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Tzvetan Todorov

Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre

Tzvetan Todorov with Richard Howard (Translator)

190 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative medium-paced

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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...

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