Beyond the wall
Subtitle: exploring George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire, from A game of thrones to A dance with Dragons
By: edited by James Lowder
Publisher: Smart Pop / BenBella Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dallas, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781936661749
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : stories for the nights to come / R.A. Salvatore; title: Introduction : in praise of living history / James Lowder; title: The palace of love, the palace of sorrow : Romanticism in A Song of Ice and Fire / Linda Antonsson and Elio M. García, Jr.; title: Men and monsters : rape, myth-making, and the rise and fall of nations in A Song of Ice and Fire / Alyssa Rosenberg; title: Same song in a different key : adapting A Game of Thrones as a graphic novel / Daniel Abraham; title: An unreliable world : history and timekeeping in Westeros / Adam Whitehead; title: Back to the egg : the prequels to A Song of Ice and Fire / Gary Westfahl; title: Art imitates war : post-traumatic stress disorder in A Song of Ice and Fire / Myke Cole; title: The brutal cost of redemption in Westeros : or, what moral ambiguity? / Susan Vaught; title: Of direwolves and gods / Andrew Zimmerman Jones; title: A sword without a hilt : the dangers of magic in (and to) Westeros / Jesse Scoble; title: Petyr Baelish and the mask of sanity / Matt Staggs; title: A different kind of other : the role of freaks and outcasts in A Song of Ice and Fire / Brent Hartinger; title: Power and feminism in Westeros / Caroline Spector; title: Collecting Ice and fire in the age of Nook and Kindle / John Jos. Miller; title: Beyond the ghetto : how George R.R. Martin fights the genre wars / Ned Vizzini.