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This path-breaking study will become the standard work on thehistory of reading in the West. It will be indispensable tostudents of cultural history, and to all those who want a freshperspective on the history of books and their uses. Wide-ranging and authoritative account of the changingpractices of reading from the ancient world to the presentday. An international team of leading historians examine thetechnical innovations which change physical aspects of books andother texts, as well as the changing forms of reading and thegrowth and transformation of the reading public. Contributors include: Robert Bonfil, Guglielmo Cavallo, RogerChartier, Jean-Francois Gilmont, Anthony Grafton, JacquelineHamesse, Dominique Julia, Martyn Lyons, M.B. Parkes, ArmandoPetrucci, Paul Saenger, Jesper Svenbro and Reinhard Wittmann. This path-breaking study has been highly successful in hardbackand is now available in paperback for the first time.
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In The Fantastic, 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. As an essay in fictional poetics, The Fantastic 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 The Sargasso Manuscript, Nerval's Aurélia, Balzac's The Magic Skin, the Arabian Nights, Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureux, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and tales by E. T. A. Hoffman, Charles Perrault, Guy de Maupassant, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar A. Poe.