Research Catalog

Title

Mastering The game of thrones : essays on George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire / edited by Jes Battis and Susan Johnston.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

ix, 297 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Uniform Title

Game of thrones (Television program)

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-1626

ISBN

• 9780786496310
• 0786496312
• 9781476619620 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014044427

OCLC

897001675

Title

Mastering The game of thrones : essays on George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire / edited by Jes Battis and Susan Johnston.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Battis, Jes, 1979- editor.

Johnston, Susan, 1964- editor.

Added Title

Game of thrones (Television program)

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1626