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Media type:
Book
Title:
Mastering the Game of thrones
:
essays on George R. R. Martin's A song of ice and fire
Work titles:
Game of thrones
Contains:
Introduction: on knowing nothing
/ Susan Johnston and Jes BattisLanguage 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.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"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"--
"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"--