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Beschreibung
This collection of essays examines the structures of power and the ways in which power is exercised and felt in the fantasy world of Game of Thrones. It considers how the expectations of viewers, particularly within the genre of epic fantasy, are subverted across the full 8 seasons of the series. The assembled team of international scholars, representing a variety of disciplines, addresses such topics as the power of speech and magic; the role of nationality and politics; disability, race and gender; and the ways in which each reinforces or subverts power in Westeros and Essos.
This collection of essays examines the structures of power and the ways in which power is exercised and felt in the fantasy world of Game of Thrones. It considers how the expectations of viewers, particularly within the genre of epic fantasy, are subverted across the full 8 seasons of the series. The assembled team of international scholars, representing a variety of disciplines, addresses such topics as the power of speech and magic; the role of nationality and politics; disability, race and gender; and the ways in which each reinforces or subverts power in Westeros and Essos.
Über den Autor
A. Keith Kelly is a professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, outside of Atlanta, where he teaches medieval literature, linguistics and writing. In addition to being a poet and author of short fiction, he has published work on literary pragmatics, Old Norse saga, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and the representation of the Middle Ages in film and television.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A. Keith Kelly

List of Seasons and Episodes: HBO's Game of Thrones

Breaking the Wheel: Game of Thrones and the American Zeitgeist

Daniel Vollaro

Dangerous Nostalgia: Fantasies of Medievalism, Race, and Identity

Robert Allen Rouse

Game of Victims and Monsters: Representation of Sexual and Female Violence

Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Subversion or Reinforcement? Patriarchy and Masculinity

Andrew Howe

"I'll go with anger": Female Rage in and at Game of Thrones

Lindsey Mantoan

The Developing Verbal Power of Daenerys: A Pragmatics Analysis

Graham P. Johnson

"Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?": The Power of Disability Narratives

Jan Doolittle Wilson

Magic's Failure to Reanimate Fantasy

Jason M. Embry

A Brief Conclusion on the Conclusion

A. Keith Kelly

About the Contributors

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781476682648
ISBN-10: 147668264X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Kelly, A. Keith
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: A. Keith Kelly
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,298 kg
Artikel-ID: 125344430