Category Archives: Professional Scholarship
Guy Gavriel Kay, La chanson d’Arbonne
This is an article by Nathalie Labrousse-Marchau, a French philosophy teacher, which appeared originally on her website. With thanks to Francois Vincent for the translation into English. Read it in English. Guy Gavriel Kay n’est pas un auteur de fantasy … Continue reading
The World-Building of Guy Gavriel Kay
by Holly E. Ordway May 13, 1998 One of the most notable aspects of fantasy literature is its creation of a secondary world, not like our own primary world. If I may be excused for starting off this essay with … Continue reading
Myth and the New High Fantasy: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana
by Janeen Webb © 1991, by Janeen Webb. First published in The Ring Bearer: Journal of the Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, Spring 1991, Vol 8, No. 2. Reprinted by permission of the author. All rights reserved. Guy Gavriel Kay … Continue reading
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
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