Author Archives: Deborah Meghnagi
Post-Romantic Romance: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana and A Song for Arbonne
by Janeen Webb Copyright © Janeen Webb 1994. All rights reserved. This article first appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction, No.77, January 1995. Judged by any of the standard genre definitions, Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana is high … Continue reading
Synopsis of article by Mirco Tondi
Translation by Emanuele Manco, administrator of Fantasy Magazine. This is a synopsis of “La mitologia, fonte di consapevolezza e ispirazione: il mondo di Fionavar di Guy Gavriel Kay”, by Mirco Tondi. History, religion, psychology teach that everything has a single … Continue reading
Songs in the Blood: The Discourse of Music in Three Canadian Novels
by Joyce Gutensohn, 2004 Joyce explains: I had originally planned to write my MA thesis at the University of Victoria on some aspect of the relationship between music and literature, and was leaning toward the traditional approach of examining a … Continue reading
Royal Ascent: the romance of monarchy in Yvain, The Hobbit, and Tigana
by Stephen David Wark, 1998 Stephen Wark explains how he came to write this paper: “As far as the provenance of the paper goes, it was written for a course during my M.A. at Concordia University titled “Early Modern Romance”. … Continue reading
Shifting Focalization and the Strategy of Delay: The Narrative Weaving of "The Fionavar Tapestry"
by Neil Randall This paper, by Neil Randall, first appeared in the journal Canadian Literature, issue no. 129 (Summer 1991). Copyright Neil Randall, reproduced with permission. Huge thanks to Caitlin Sweet for locating a copy of the journal and typing … Continue reading