Mastering the Game of thrones : essays on George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire

Book 2015

"This volume represents the first sustained scholarly treatment of George R.R. Martin's groundbreaking work, and includes writing by experts involved in the production of the show. The contributors investigate a number of compelling areas, including the mystery of the shape-shifting wargs, the conflict between religions, the origins of the Dothraki language and the sex lives of knights"-- Provided by publisher.

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Martin, George R. R. Song of ice and fire

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ISBN:

9780786496310

Description:

297 pages cm

Other Title:

Game of thrones (Television program)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction: on knowing nothing / Susan Johnston and Jes Battis
Language and narration. The languages of ice and fire / David J. Peterson
"Sing for your little life": story, discourse and character / Marc Napolitano
What maesters knew: narrating knowing / Brian Cowlishaw
Histories. "Just songs in the end": historical discourses in Shakespeare and Martin / Jessica Walker
Dividing lines: Frederick Jackson Turner's Western frontier and George R.R. Martin's Northern wall / Michail Zontos
Philosophies. "All men must serve": religion and free will from The seven to The faceless men / Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow
"Silk ribbons tied around a sword": knighthood and the chivalric virtues in westeros / Charles H. Hackney
Bodies. Cursed womb, bulging thighs and bald scalp: George R.R. Martin's grotesque queen / Karin Gresham
"A thousand bloodstained hands": the malleability of flesh and identity / Beth Kozinsky
A thousand westerosi plateaus: wargs, wolves and ways of being / T.A. Leederman
Intimacies. Sex and the citadel: adapting same sex desire from Martin's westeros to HBO's bedrooms / David C. Nel
Beyond the pale? craster and the pathological reproduction of houses in westeros / Marcel Decoste
Adaptations. The hand of the artist: fan art in the martinverse / Andrew Howe
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies": transmedia textuality and the flows of adaptation / Zoe Shacklock

LCCN:

2014044427

Control Number:

1159040

Other Authors:

Battis, Jes, 1979- editor
Johnston, Susan, 1964- editor

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