An Unwelcome Guest single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 An Unwelcome Guest
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Troll’s-Eye ViewTroll's Eye View : A Book of Villainous Tales Ellen Datlow (editor), Terri Windling (editor), New York (City) : Viking , 2009 8740779 2009 anthology short story fantasy New York (City) : Viking , 2009 pg. 10-12
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon To Hold the Bridge : Tales from the Old Kingdom and Beyond Garth Nix , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8348626 2015 selected work short story

    'This is a masterful short story collection including a rarely seen Old Kingdom novella. Garth Nix proves he is a master of the short story with this intriguing collection of tales. Leading with the novella to hold the bridge, fans of Garth Nix will be more than satisfied with the richly detailed and thrilling tale of Charter Magic and a deathly duel. Fans new and old will delight in the subsequent tales, including fantasy and science fiction, with witches, vampires, strange worlds and stranger creatures making their appearance.' (Publication summary)

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015
    pg. 324-335

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Re-Conceptualizing Gender through Narrative Play in Fairy-Tale Retellings Christy Williams , Hawaii : 2012 11122509 2012 single work thesis

'This dissertation contributes to scholarship on contemporary fairy-tale retellings by exploring how gender is conceptualized, or not, as an unstable construct through specific narrative strategies. The texts I analyze are primarily American literary fiction and films, aimed at adults and young adults, from the past twenty years. I argue that narrative strategies affect the way gender is conceptualized in retellings even if they do not directly engage with gender concepts on the level of story. I suggest that gender conceptualization and narrative structures can work in concert, in opposition, or by revealing alternate possibilities, and I focus on the complexity with which retellings re-envision traditional fairy tales - paying particular attention to plot, narration, and metafiction. My purpose is to show how gender ideologies and narrative structures interact, and I conclude that the more disruptive the narrative strategies are to fairy-tale patterns, the more enabled the retelling is to question gender as a concept.' (Abstract)

y separately published work icon Re-Conceptualizing Gender through Narrative Play in Fairy-Tale Retellings Christy Williams , Hawaii : 2012 11122509 2012 single work thesis

'This dissertation contributes to scholarship on contemporary fairy-tale retellings by exploring how gender is conceptualized, or not, as an unstable construct through specific narrative strategies. The texts I analyze are primarily American literary fiction and films, aimed at adults and young adults, from the past twenty years. I argue that narrative strategies affect the way gender is conceptualized in retellings even if they do not directly engage with gender concepts on the level of story. I suggest that gender conceptualization and narrative structures can work in concert, in opposition, or by revealing alternate possibilities, and I focus on the complexity with which retellings re-envision traditional fairy tales - paying particular attention to plot, narration, and metafiction. My purpose is to show how gender ideologies and narrative structures interact, and I conclude that the more disruptive the narrative strategies are to fairy-tale patterns, the more enabled the retelling is to question gender as a concept.' (Abstract)

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