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'In the opening pages of The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973), Todorov evokes the image of a tiger to draw a parallel between changes in the biological and literary “species”:
Being familiar with the species tiger, we can deduce from it the properties of each individual tiger; the birth of a new tiger does not modify the species in its definition. […] The same is not the case in the realm of art or of science. Here evolution operates with an altogether different rhythm: every work modifies the sum of possible works, each new example alters the species. (6)' (Introduction)
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The Fantastic as a Terminological Trickster
Subjects:
- The Kadaitcha Sung 1990 single work novel
- Below the Line 1991 single work novel
- Land of the Golden Clouds 1998 single work novel
- The Swan Book 2013 single work novel
- Heat and Light 2014 selected work short story
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