The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre / Edition 1

As an essay in fictional poetics, 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 , Nerval's , Balzac's , the , Cazotte's , Kafka's , and tales by E. T. A. Hoffman, Charles Perrault, Guy de Maupassant, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar A. Poe.