{"product_id":"fantastic-a-structural-approach-to-a-literary-genre-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?lia\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTzvetan Todorov is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. A native of Bulgaria living in France for over four decades, he is among the most influential literary and cultural theorists writing today. Among his many books available in English translation are \u003ci\u003eTheories of the Symbol\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSymbolism and Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e, both available from Cornell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50700180259090,"sku":"9780801491467","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/61O7P3x2J5L._SL1360.jpg?v=1734361303","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fantastic-a-structural-approach-to-a-literary-genre-9780801491467","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}