Mastering The game of thrones : essays on George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire /
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 c...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2015]
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Table of 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.