The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 21:39, 17 February 2008; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Introduction à la littérature fantastique, first published in French in 1970 and translated as The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre is a literary history book by Tzvetan Todorov in which he explores the notion of the French fantastique.

Tzvetan Todorov holds that fantastic literature involves an unresolved hesitation between a supernatural (or otherwise paranormal or impossible) solution and a psychological (or realistic) one. His term hesitation is reminiscent of the terms ambiguity and ambivalence used in the definition of the grotesque.

SIPs

fantastic - fantastique - fantastic literature - genre theory - gothic novel - the uncanny - Tzvetan Todorov - the marvelous - literary theory - structuralism


Similar products

  1. The Uncanny (Penguin Classics) by Sigmund Freud
  2. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (New Accents) by Rose Jackson
  3. Powers of Horror (European Perspectives Series) by Julia Kristeva
  4. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette

External links

Personal tools