Magical resolutions?
In a Slate essay on Deep Throat, critic Laura Kipnis notes in passing: "Genres that are most popular tend to offer magical resolutions to irreconcilable social problems and tensions." Is this true of popular fantasy? Of all fantasy? Of everything on our syllabus?
posted by Andy Duncan at 11:22 AM
2 Comments:
I could see where you could make a case for that. If you present a real, possible solution well then, people would actually have to try it. And that would take effort. It's so much easier to say you can't & leave it at that.
Then again, just as often, the "magical solution" presents its own set of problems to replace the solved ones.
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