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Fantasy Fiction as a Genre of Structural Completeness

Part of the reason that this pattern of ableist rhetoric involving a "cure" is so regularly repeated has to do with the fact that fantasy fiction is what writer Brian Attebery calls a "genre of structural completeness". This means that the problem that is originally presented at the start of the hook or inciting incident of a novel must be resolved in a traditional fashion according to the expectations of most readers since fantasy is framed as a genre of comfortable formula.

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Updated 2023-04-30

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