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001461674 24500 $$aGame of thrones :$$ba view from the humanities.$$nVol. 1,$$pTime, space and culture /$$cAlfonso Álvarez-Ossorio, Fernando Lozano, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Cristina Rosillo-Lopez, editors.
001461674 24630 $$aTime, space and culture
001461674 260__ $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2023.
001461674 300__ $$a1 online resource (xx, 367 pages) :$$billustrations (chiefly color).
001461674 500__ $$aIncludes index.
001461674 500__ $$a4 Concluding: "It's not easy being drunk all the time (...)", as Said by the Wise Tyrion
001461674 5050_ $$aIntro -- 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
001461674 5058_ $$a3 Lomas Longstrider's Wonders Made by Man -- The Wall -- The Titan of Braavos -- The Long Bridge of Volantis -- The Walls of Qarth -- The Palace with a Thousand Rooms, in Sarnath of the Tall Towers -- The Valyrian Roads -- The Three Bells of Norvos -- About the Other Possible Wonders in Longstrider's List -- 4 The Presence of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in Game of Thrones -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: "There had been a Great Strength in those Stones": Materiality and Archaeological Perspectives of Westerosi Fortifications -- 1 "What do you think a knight is for, girl?"
001461674 5058_ $$a2 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
001461674 5058_ $$a2 "Winter is coming": A Game of Natural Forces -- 3 Preceding Ecological Cataclysms -- 4 The Evolution of Human-Nature Relationship: Climate Change Scepticism and Denial -- 5 A Dream of Spring? -- Bibliography -- Part II: "You Win or You Die": Aesthetic and Cultural Approaches to Game of Thrones -- Chapter 6: Game of Thrones and the Sublime -- 1 Sublime Ecologies -- 2 The Intertextual Sublime -- 3 The Heroic Sublime -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: "When You Play the Game of Thrones, You Win or You Die": Game of Thrones between Mainstream Culture and Counterculture -- 1 Introduction
001461674 5058_ $$a2 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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001461674 520__ $$aThis 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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001461674 60010 $$aMartin, George R. R.$$xCharacters.$$tSong of ice and fire$$0(OCoLC)oca03938017
001461674 650_0 $$aViolence in literature.
001461674 650_0 $$aWar in literature.
001461674 655_0 $$aElectronic books.
001461674 7001_ $$aÁlvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso,$$eeditor.
001461674 7001_ $$aLozano, Fernando$$q(Lozano Gómez),$$eeditor.
001461674 7001_ $$aMoreno Soldevila, Rosario,$$eeditor.
001461674 7001_ $$aRosillo López, Cristina,$$eeditor.
001461674 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aÁlvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso$$tGame of Thrones - a View from the Humanities Vol. 1$$dCham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023$$z9783031154881
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