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Mastering The game of thrones [electronic resource] : essays on George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire / edited by Jes Battis and Susan Johnston. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015. Subjects Martin, George R. R. Song of ice and fire. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=54245D09-7E94-452E-B0AD-7E8A7FC32830 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/3167-1/{54245D09-7E94-452E-B0AD-7E8A7FC32830}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781476619620 (electronic bk.) 147661962X (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. 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. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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