Category Archives: Student Papers
Present Reality in Historical Fantasy (Guy Gavriel Kay – Scholarship: & Dissertation)
This is a dissertation by Anya Kleander written for her Honours English Studies with Film and Media Studies Degree at Stirling University, submitted in Spring 2008. Table of contents Acknowledgments and Declaration List of abbreviations Introduction Tigana – ‘mirroring … 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
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
The Creative Construction of History in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Sarantine Mosaic
by Jillian Hatch, 2005 As Holly E. Ordway recognizes in her essay, “The World-Building of Guy Gavriel Kay,” “Kay’s work is notable in that he makes extensive use of sources from […] the ‘primary world,’” such as “literature, mythology, and … Continue reading