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The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre / Tzvetan Todorov ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; with a foreword by Robert Scholes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-2017.
- Series:
- Cornell paperbacks
- Standardized Title:
- Introduction à la littérature fantastique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Literary form.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 180 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1975.
- Contents:
- Literary genres
- Definition of the fantastic
- The uncanny and the marvelous
- Poetry and allegory
- Discourse of the fantastic
- Themes of the fantastic : introduction
- Themes of the self
- Themes of the other
- Themes of the fantastic : conclusion
- Literature and the fantastic.
- Notes:
- Translation of Introduction à la littérature fantastique.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is sixth printing, 1995.
- ISBN:
- 0801491460
- 9780801491467
- OCLC:
- 1383490
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