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One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin’s high fantasy series
A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation,
Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, thedirectors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as representative of an authentic medieval world. But how true are these claims? Is it possible to faithfully represent a time so far removed from our own in time and culture? And what does an authentic medieval fantasy world look like?
This book explores Martin’s and HBO’s approaches to and beliefs about the Middle Ages and how those beliefs fall into traditional medievalist and fantastic literary patterns. Examining both books and programme from a range of critical approaches – medievalism theory, gender theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, andrace theory – Dr Carroll analyzes how the drive for historical realism affects the books’ and show’s treatment of men, women, people of colour, sexuality, and imperialism, as well as how the author and showrunners discuss these effects outside the texts themselves.
SHILOH CARROLL teaches in the writing center at Tennessee State University.
A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation,
Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, thedirectors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as representative of an authentic medieval world. But how true are these claims? Is it possible to faithfully represent a time so far removed from our own in time and culture? And what does an authentic medieval fantasy world look like?
This book explores Martin’s and HBO’s approaches to and beliefs about the Middle Ages and how those beliefs fall into traditional medievalist and fantastic literary patterns. Examining both books and programme from a range of critical approaches – medievalism theory, gender theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, andrace theory – Dr Carroll analyzes how the drive for historical realism affects the books’ and show’s treatment of men, women, people of colour, sexuality, and imperialism, as well as how the author and showrunners discuss these effects outside the texts themselves.
SHILOH CARROLL teaches in the writing center at Tennessee State University.
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Table of Content
Introduction: Martin and Medievalist FantasyChivalric Romance and Anti-Romance
Masculinity, Femininity, and Gender Relations
Sex and Sexuality
Postcolonialism, Slavery, and the Great White Hope
Adaptation and Reception
Afterword
Bibliography
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 214 ● ISBN 9781787441941 ● File size 4.3 MB ● Publisher Boydell & Brewer ● City Woodbridge ● Country GB ● Published 2018 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6959072 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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