The creation and analysis of a mythic, high fantasy, swords and sorcery novel

This dissertation comprises a creative work, The Ulfang Tower, and an exegesis of that creative work. The creative work is situated within the area of literary fiction: more specifically it is a novel in the fantasy genre and its subgenres of myth, romance (in the medieval sense of the term), high fantasy, and swords and sorcery in its modern sense. The exegesis will locate the creative work within the history of the genres it is contributing to and the ideological affiliations it shares with /deviates from in respect to those genres as well as providing a detailed critique of the novel itself in terms of such devices as narrative point of view, characterisation and style.