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Beyond the wall : exploring George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire, from A game of thrones to A dance with Dragons / edited by James Lowder.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781936661749
- ISBN: 1936661748
- Physical Description: xviii, 220 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Dallas, TX : Smart Pop / BenBella Books, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword : stories for the nights to come / R.A. Salvatore -- Introduction : in praise of living history / James Lowder -- The palace of love, the palace of sorrow : Romanticism in A Song of Ice and Fire / Linda Antonsson and Elio M. Garc©Ưa, Jr. -- Men and monsters : rape, myth-making, and the rise and fall of nations in A Song of Ice and Fire / Alyssa Rosenberg -- Same song in a different key : adapting A Game of Thrones as a graphic novel / Daniel Abraham -- An unreliable world : history and timekeeping in Westeros / Adam Whitehead -- Back to the egg : the prequels to A Song of Ice and Fire / Gary Westfahl -- Art imitates war : post-traumatic stress disorder in A Song of Ice and Fire / Myke Cole -- The brutal cost of redemption in Westeros : or, what moral ambiguity? / Susan Vaught -- Of direwolves and gods / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- A sword without a hilt : the dangers of magic in (and to) Westeros / Jesse Scoble -- Petyr Baelish and the mask of sanity / Matt Staggs -- A different kind of other : the role of freaks and outcasts in A Song of Ice and Fire / Brent Hartinger -- Power and feminism in Westeros / Caroline Spector -- Collecting Ice and fire in the age of Nook and Kindle / John Jos. Miller -- Beyond the ghetto : how George R.R. Martin fights the genre wars / Ned Vizzini. |
| Summary, etc.: | "The epic game of thrones chronicled in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. In Beyond the wall, bestselling authors and acclaimed critics offer up thought-provoking essays and compelling insights ..."--P. [4] of cover. |
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| Subject: | Martin, George R. R. Song of ice and fire > Criticism and interpretation. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Beyond the Wall : Exploring George R. R. Martin's a Song of Ice and Fire, from a Game of Thrones to a Dance with Dragons
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Beyond the Wall : Exploring George R. R. Martin's a Song of Ice and Fire, from a Game of Thrones to a Dance with Dragons
Get ready for HBO's Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon prequel series with this exploration of George R.R. Martin's iconic novels The world created by George R.R. Martin in his high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire--now the basis for the hit HBO series Game of Thrones --is not only richly drawn, but also immensely popular. By A Game of Thrones ' debut in May 2011, the series already had more than 6 million copies in print in the US and had sold more than 16 million worldwide. Since the television series' debut, A Game of Thrones and subsequent titles in the series have appeared consistently on the New York Times bestseller list. The latest title in the series, A Dance with Dragons , sold nearly 300,000 copies on its first day in print. Beyond the Wall explores the book series' influences, its place in the fantasy pantheon, its challenging narrative choices, and the pull of its stunningly epic scope.
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