ISBN:
9781476619620
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (309 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mastering the Game of thrones
DDC:
813/.54
Keywords:
Martin
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Martin, George R. R
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Martin, George R. R. 1948- A song of ice and fire
Abstract:
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO's acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this world so popular, and why the novels and television series are being taught in university classrooms as genre-defining works within the American fantasy tradition. This volume represents the first sustained scholarly treatment of George R.R. Martin's groundbreaking work, and includes writing by experts in
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; A Note on Editions; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
"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
Description / Table of Contents:
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 (D. 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 (Zoë Shacklock); About the Contributors; Index
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