{"product_id":"fantastic-a-structural-approach-to-a-literary-genre-9780801491467","title":"Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tzvetan Todorov | Richard Howard | Robert Scholes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46894369144983,"sku":"9780801491467","price":3137.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801491467.webp?v=1770323782","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fantastic-a-structural-approach-to-a-literary-genre-9780801491467","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}