Game of thrones : a view from the humanities. Vol. 1, Time, space and culture / Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio, Fernando Lozano, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Cristina Rosillo-Lopez, editors.
Álvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso, editor.; Lozano, Fernando (Lozano Gómez), editor.; Moreno Soldevila, Rosario, editor.; Rosillo López, Cristina, editor.
2023
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Game of thrones : a view from the humanities. Vol. 1, Time, space and culture / Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio, Fernando Lozano, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Cristina Rosillo-Lopez, editors.
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9783031154898
3031154894
3031154886
9783031154881
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15489-8
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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English
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1 online resource (xx, 367 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
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10.1007/978-3-031-15489-8 doi
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PS3563.A7239
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813/.5409
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This is, to our knowledge, the most extraordinary collection of varied and fascinating academic consideration on Game of Thrones ever put to press. By bringing together an international gathering of scholars who come from a wide array of disciplines, Game of Thrones: A View from the Humanities has made a real contribution to the study of popular culture and shown the value of humane inquiry into modern works of fiction. Elio M. Garca Jr. and Linda Antonsson, co-authors with G.R.R. Martin of The World of Ice & Fire A humanistic approach to GOT. Finding bare and reasonable resemblances between Westeros, Essos and the civilizations of the ancient world. Aurora Lpez Gueto, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that characterise Martins world. The volume is divided into three thematic sections. The first section focuses on spaceboth the urban and natural environmentand the interaction between human beings and their surroundings. The second section follows different yet complementary approaches to Game of Thrones from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. The final section addresses the linguistic and translation implications of the Game of Thrones universe, as well as its didactic uses. This book is paired with a second volume that focuses on the characters, violence and warfare in Martins universe. Alfonso lvarez-Ossorio is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville, Spain. He has co-edited The Present of Antiquity: Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of the Ancient World in Current Popular Culture (2019). Fernando Lozano is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville, Spain. His research focuses on the study of Roman religion during the Empire and, specifically, on the imperial cult, as well as Reception studies. Rosario Moreno Soldevila is Professor of Latin at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has authored or co-authored ten monographs on Latin literature, including A Prosopography to Martials Epigrams (2019). Cristina Rosillo-Lpez is Professor of Ancient History at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has authored and edited several monographs, including Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome (2022).
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Includes index.
4 Concluding: "It's not easy being drunk all the time (...)", as Said by the Wise Tyrion
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Lozano, Fernando (Lozano Gómez), editor.
Moreno Soldevila, Rosario, editor.
Rosillo López, Cristina, editor.
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Intro
About this Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Reflections on Time, Space and Culture in Game of Thrones
Acknowledgements and a Bit of History
Bibliography
Part I: "Winter is Coming": Landscape, Climate Change and Natural History in Game of Thrones
Chapter 2: Ludus Thronis: De novem orbis miraculis-The Wonders of the Ancient World in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
1 Introduction
2 The Phenomenon of the Lists of Wonders and its Connection with Game of Thrones

3 Lomas Longstrider's Wonders Made by Man
The Wall
The Titan of Braavos
The Long Bridge of Volantis
The Walls of Qarth
The Palace with a Thousand Rooms, in Sarnath of the Tall Towers
The Valyrian Roads
The Three Bells of Norvos
About the Other Possible Wonders in Longstrider's List
4 The Presence of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in Game of Thrones
5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 3: "There had been a Great Strength in those Stones": Materiality and Archaeological Perspectives of Westerosi Fortifications
1 "What do you think a knight is for, girl?"

2 A Seat for Every House
3 "Rearing up against the sky": Castles and Space
4 "This seems an old place": Fortresses and Time
5 "Lands, castle, some office?"
Bibliography
Chapter 4: From Python to Viserion: Dragon's Natural History
1 Hic sunt dracones
2 It Was a Place of Dragons
3 Wunderkammer
4 Quid nisi monstra legis?
5 Drakarys
6 Under the Sign of Melusine: The Monster Against the Audience
Bibliography
Chapter 5: A Song of Ice and Fire as a Narrative of Environmental Crisis and Climate Change
1 Introduction

2 "Winter is coming": A Game of Natural Forces
3 Preceding Ecological Cataclysms
4 The Evolution of Human-Nature Relationship: Climate Change Scepticism and Denial
5 A Dream of Spring?
Bibliography
Part II: "You Win or You Die": Aesthetic and Cultural Approaches to Game of Thrones
Chapter 6: Game of Thrones and the Sublime
1 Sublime Ecologies
2 The Intertextual Sublime
3 The Heroic Sublime
Bibliography
Chapter 7: "When You Play the Game of Thrones, You Win or You Die": Game of Thrones between Mainstream Culture and Counterculture
1 Introduction

2 The Countercultural Background of Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
HBO
3 Three Countercultural Elements
Ethical Horizon and Codes of Behaviour
The Technique of "Point of View"
Marginal Heroes
4 The Success of a Fantasy Saga
Factors of Success
The Audience of Game of Thrones
Bibliography
Chapter 8: The Symbology of Popular Culture in Game of Thrones: Carnivalization and Tyrion's Wedding Party
1 Introduction
2 The Popular Bases: Beyond the Vulgar
3 The Wedding Party: A Carnivalesque Moment

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