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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Battis, Jes, 1979- editor.

Johnston, Susan, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Martin, George R. R.

Physical Description:

ix, 297 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786496310

0786496312

OCLC:

897001675