{"product_id":"the-fantastic","title":"The Fantastic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This, the first of Todorov's books to be translated into English (it was originally published in French in 1970), is brilliant.... Todorov's attempt to formulate a general theory for studying themes without subordinating literary theory to the social sciences makes this book indispensable to serious students of literature.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n― \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fantastic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\n\u003cp\u003eAs an essay in fictional poetics, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fantastic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis 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\u003eAurélia\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\n","brand":"Tzvetan Todorov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616453583228,"sku":"9780801491467","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780801491467_8ad44583-cd29-4fdf-a25c-69f0f1ef1f97.jpg?v=1725624327","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fantastic","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}