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George R. R. Martin's "A game of thrones"a critical companion /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	George R. R. Martin's "A game of thrones"by Joseph Rex Young.
Reminder of title:	a critical companion /
Author:	Young, Joseph Rex.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xi, 96 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Fantasy fictionHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08023-3
ISBN:	9783032080233$q(electronic bk.)

George R. R. Martin's "A game of thrones"a critical companion /
Young, Joseph Rex.

George R. R. Martin's "A game of thrones"a critical companion /[electronic resource] :by Joseph Rex Young. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xi, 96 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave science fiction and fantasy: a new canon,2662-8570. - Palgrave science fiction and fantasy: a new canon..

Chapter 1 : The Pre-Game Show -- Chapter 2 : Interrogating the Middle Ages -- Chapter 3 : Constructing and deconstructing gender -- Chapter 4: Lowering the tone - world-building and critique -- Chapter 5: Turning theme into plot -- Chapter 6 :Conclusions.

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's ongoing series A Song of Ice and Fire. The book examines Martin's novel as a shrewd, genre-literate utilization of commonplaces and imperatives of its genre. Young focuses on various aspects of Martin's worldbuilding, as well as his use of fantasy to manage and utilize narrative tension. The overall polemic thrust of the book will be that Martin's novel displays his ability to manage the inherent tension between literary convention and innovation, producing something that is both an admirable essay in genre and a strong platform for distinctive author. Joseph Rex Young is a scholar of the history and rhetoric of the literary supernatural, currently based in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of various academic publications, most notably his book George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (2019). He has taught at universities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, India and New Zealand.

ISBN: 9783032080233$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-08023-3doiSubjects--Personal Names:

591466
Martin, George R. R.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

192379
Fantasy fiction
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PS3563.A7239

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54

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