The Word for World is Story: Syncretic Fantasy As Healing Ritual in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water (Critical Essay‪)‬

Arguably, at the end of the 20th century mimetic tradition increasingly fails to fulfil the most conservative expectations of how we can understand the nature of the world.... It could be that the late-century success of fantasy (and other genres of the fantastic) is partly due to these circumstances; and that we listen to stories at the fin de millennium in order to recuperate a sense that stories still exist. That we still can be told. --John Clute and Gary Westfahl, "Story"