The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Cornell University Press

The reader can either choose not to believe Billy Pilgrim and set for the . The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Martin’s Press 1993; 206-212Todorov, Tzvetan. €Art as Technique.” In Lee T. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press. (It seems customary to refer to fiction that contains elements of the fantastic but appears more literary in bent as “speculative” fiction. Yu's stories remain intriguingly open-ended, a function that is as much a part of their length as it is of Yu's particular approach to the speculative genre. Feb 4, 2011 - The hesitation is, undoubtedly, condition sine qua non for the fantastic genre in a narrative implying the integration 'of the reader into the world of the characters; the world is defined by the reader's own ambiguous perception of the events narrated' (Todorov, 1975: 31). Jan 29, 2014 - The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Jun 20, 2012 - We look to genre fiction for something specific; something that the structure of genre can fulfill in ways that “literary fiction” does not — perhaps cannot. Cleveland: The Press of Case Westren Reserve University, 1973.