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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.
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A7239 S5935 2015 | Off-site |
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- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780786496310
- 0786496312
- 9781476619620 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014044427
- OCLC
- 897001675
- SCSB-12300369
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library