Game Of Thrones A View From The Humanities Vol 2
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Game Of Thrones A View From The Humanities Vol 2
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Author : Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-01-27
Game Of Thrones A View From The Humanities Vol 2 written by Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-27 with Performing Arts categories.
This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare. It analyses these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective that is chiefly based on Classical Studies. The book is divided into two sections. The first section explores Martin’s characters as the mainstay of both the novels and the TV series, since the author has peopled his universe with three-dimensional intriguing characters that resonate with the reader/audience. The second section is devoted to violence and warfare, both pervasive in the Game of Thrones universe. In particular, the TV series’ depiction of violence is explicit, going beyond the limits that have seldom been traversed in primetime television i.e. the execution of Ned Stark, the “Red Wedding” and “Battle of the Bastards”. In the Game of Thrones universe, violence is not only restricted to warfare but is an everyday occurrence, a result of the social and gender inequalities characterising the world created by Martin.
Game Of Thrones A View From The Humanities Vol 1
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Author : Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-20
Game Of Thrones A View From The Humanities Vol 1 written by Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-20 with Performing Arts categories.
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 characterises Martin’s world. The book is divided into three thematic sections. The first section focuses on space—both the urban and natural environment—and 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 that populate Martin’s universe, as well as on one of the ways in which they often interact—violence and warfare—from the same multidisciplinary perspective.
Fantasy Aesthetics
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Author : Hans Rudolf Velten
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2024-07-08
Fantasy Aesthetics written by Hans Rudolf Velten and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-08 with Social Science categories.
Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.
The Sentient Tree In Speculative Fiction
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Author : Jean Graham
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-10-30
The Sentient Tree In Speculative Fiction written by Jean Graham and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier work. Graham's research includes literary and scientific works on vegetal consciousness and sentience, and applies this ecocritical lens in her analysis of various works of literature, television, and film. This book aims to illustrate how sentient trees in speculative fiction help readers better understand that other beings on Earth and/or the Universe are motivated and able to act on goals and desires, even when those goals may not coincide with those of humans.
Fantasy And Myth In The Anthropocene
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Author : Marek Oziewicz
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-24
Fantasy And Myth In The Anthropocene written by Marek Oziewicz and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this volume blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature with personal reflections by award-winning authors and illustrators of books for young audiences, including Shaun Tan, Jane Yolen, Katherine Applegate and Joseph Bruchac. Chapters cover the works of major fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Miéville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowley, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson. They range through narratives set in the UK, USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Across the chapters, fantasy and myth are framed as spaces where visions of sustainable futures can be designed with most detail and nuance. Rather than merely criticizing the ecocidal status quo, the book asks how mythic narratives and fantastic stories can mobilize resistance around ideas necessary for the emergence of an ecological civilization.
La Huella Vikinga
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Author : Laia San José Beltrán
language : es
Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL
Release Date : 2024-10-17
La Huella Vikinga written by Laia San José Beltrán and has been published by ROCA EDITORIAL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-17 with History categories.
VIKINGO SE HACE, NO SE NACE Adéntrate en la fascinante historia de cómo la cultura de una era que acabó hace mil años sigue presente a tu alrededor en todo lo que adoras. La herencia que los vikingos han dejado en nosotros es tan vasta y abrumadora que lo difícil es encontrar algo que no tenga nada que ver con ellos. Esta es una obra que lleva la divulgación histórica un paso más allá. Una nueva mirada a las historias centrales de la mitología nórdica para explorar su impacto cultural. Laia San José, como experta indiscutible en el tema, examina la cultura vikinga y sus mitos revelando la forma en que han moldeado nuestro pensamiento y nuestra cultura, desde Shakespeare y Wagner hasta Tolkien o George R.R. Martin. ¿Sabes quién dijo por primera vez «Se acerca el invierno»? ¿Qué tienen en común Odín, Merlín y Gandalf? ¿O que Shakespeare se inspiró en la saga nórdica de Amleth? ¿Por qué imaginamos a los vikingos con cascos de cuernos y por qué algunos siguen empeñados en ser sus herederos? El viaje del héroe existía mucho antes de que Luke Skywalker iniciara el suyo. Reseñas: «Con su magnífica capacidad como divulgadora, Laia enlaza causas y efectos, desmiente creencias erróneas y muestra de manera concienzuda y original la influencia del mundo nórdico en la actualidad. No esperaba menos, no se puede pedir más». Espido Freire «Un libro fundamental para entender con profundidad y rigor el impacto del mundo nórdico en la historia y en el presente». Miguel Ángel Cajigal, El Barroquista «Una obra que todo el mundo debería leer para descubrir -y redescubrir- esta sociedad fascinante, más allá de mitos y de la imagen del vikingo violento y con cuernos. Sus vikingos (¡y vikingas!), más allá de los tópicos, nos acercan a una sociedad rica y compleja y, sobre todo, a nuestra propia forma de modelar el pasado». Patricia González Gutiérrez «Laia San José conoce tanto la historia nórdica y sabe contarla tan bien que seguir la huella vikinga de su mano es como alcanzar el Valhalla». Raquel Martos «La culpa de todo la tiene el siglo XIX; de la "vikingomanía" también. Laia San José ha conseguido conectar pasado y presente en una obra interesante, ágil y muy didáctica». Daniel Aquillué «Uniendo la cultura popular, la literatura, la historia, la mitología y la arqueología, este libro muestra por qué nos sigue fascinando un mundo que se perdió hace mil años». Mikel Herrán «A través de una narrativa entretenida y ampliamente documentada, Laia San José ahonda en las raíces de la creación del imaginario vikingo hasta hacer emerger, de forma sorprendente, un revelador (y, a menudo, incómodo) espejo de nuestro tiempo». Isa Mellén «Un libro que sorprende y divierte desde el profundo conocimiento de las sociedades vikingas. Adictivo». Marga Sánchez Romero «El pasado es un país extraño. En el proceso de visitarlo, los turistas históricos lo trastocan todo, transforman el pasado cuando lo experimentan. Algunos lugares y momentos históricos reciben más visitas que otros, y los vikingos son un destino muy popular... y muy deformado. Por eso hace tanta falta este libro». AD ABSURDUM
Queenship And The Women Of Westeros
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Author : Zita Eva Rohr
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Queenship And The Women Of Westeros written by Zita Eva Rohr and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with History categories.
Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a unique vantage point from which to study the intersections of elite women and popular understandings of the premodern world. This volume is a wide-ranging study of those intersections. Focusing on female agency and the role of advice, it finds a wealth of continuities and contrasts between the many powerful female characters of Martin’s fantasy world and the strategies that historical women used to exert influence. Reading characters such as Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, and Brienne of Tarth with a creative, deeply scholarly eye, Queenship and the Women of Westeros makes cutting-edge developments in queenship studies accessible to everyday readers and fans.
Arts Humanities Citation Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Arts categories.
A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Permanent Crisis
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Author : Paul Reitter
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-04-05
Permanent Crisis written by Paul Reitter and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-05 with Education categories.
"Any reader of the Chronicle of Higher Education can tell you that the humanities are in crisis. Seen as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, humanistic disciplines seem at the mercy of modernizing forces driving the university towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn't new--in fact, it's as old as the humanities themselves. Today's humanities scholars experience and react to basic pressures in ways that are strikingly similar to the response of their nineteenth-century German counterparts. In German universities of the 1800s, as in those in the United States today, humanities scholars felt threatened by the very processes that allowed the modern humanities to flourish, such as institutional rationalization and the commodification of knowledge. But Reitter and Wellmon also emphasize the constructive side of crisis discourse. They claim that the self-understanding of the modern humanities didn't merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. The humanities came into their own by framing themselves as a unique resource for resolving crises of meaning and value that threatened other cultural or social goods. With this critical, historical perspective, Permanent Crisiscan take humanists beyond the usual scolding, exhorting, and handwringing into clearer, more effective thinking about the fate of the humanities. Furthering ideas from Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche to Andrew Delbanco and William Deresiewicz, Reitter and Wellmon dig into the notion of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world"--
Metagaming
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Author : Stephanie Boluk
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
Metagaming written by Stephanie Boluk and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Games & Activities categories.
The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, professional sports, and the War on Terror. In Metagaming, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux demonstrate how games always extend beyond the screen, and how modders, mappers, streamers, spectators, analysts, and artists are changing the way we play. Metagaming uncovers these alternative histories of play by exploring the strange experiences and unexpected effects that emerge in, on, around, and through videogames. Players puzzle through the problems of perspectival rendering in Portal, perform clandestine acts of electronic espionage in EVE Online, compete and commentate in Korean StarCraft, and speedrun The Legend of Zelda in record times (with or without the use of vision). Companies like Valve attempt to capture the metagame through international e-sports and online marketplaces while the corporate history of Super Mario Bros. is undermined by the endless levels of Infinite Mario, the frustrating pranks of Asshole Mario, and even Super Mario Clouds, a ROM hack exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of the only books to include original software alongside each chapter, Metagaming transforms videogames from packaged products into instruments, equipment, tools, and toys for intervening in the sensory and political economies of everyday life. And although videogames conflate the creativity, criticality, and craft of play with the act of consumption, we don’t simply play videogames—we make metagames.