Category Archives: Student Papers
Ambiguities and Divided Loyalties: Focalization in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana
Ambiguities and Divided Loyalties: Focalization in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana This is a bachelor’s thesis by Roosa Töyrylä, written at the University of Helsinki, Finland. 2017. Introduction In fantasy literature, good and evil are often portrayed as absolute opposites, the … Continue reading
10 Fantasies of History: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Synthesis of the Historical Fantasy Novel
10 Fantasies of History This is the 2012 honours thesis by Matthew Rettino written when while attending McGill University. Since the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, fantasy literature has simultaneously seen the rise of formulaic fantasy … Continue reading
Weaving Legitimacy: Kay’s Use of Mythology in The Fionavar Tapestry
This is an undergraduate paper by Adrienne Johansson written when she was at Wilfrid Laurier University. Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry, undoubtedly the greatest fantasy trilogy ever written by a Canadian, consists of three books; The Summer Tree, published … Continue reading
The Themes of Fate and Free-will in the Fionavar Tapestry
by Shelley McLennan, 2002 The struggle between fate and free-will is a fundamental theme in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry. The ability of people to change their destiny by the exercising of their free will is most clearly shown … Continue reading
Comment naissent les héros? by Patricia Gagne
An undergraduate essay by Patricia Gagné. In French! Thanks to Alec Lynch for help with the formatting… Au début, il n’y avait rien… Puis arriva le Tisserand qui s’installa à son Métier où il tissa Fionavar, le premier de tous … Continue reading