A Clash of Critics - Scholarly Criticism About A Song of Ice and Fire

In this episode we discuss how the culturally familiar event of the wedding is used to 'Other' the Dothraki in Daenerys II.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Said, E.W. 1979, Orientalism, Vintage.

Not a Cast Podcast (Episode 12: A GAME OF THRONES, DAENERYS II: “Forgetting to be Afraid”): https://notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-12-a-game-of-thrones-daenerys-ii-forgetting-to-be-afraid/

Race for the Iron Throne (Daenerys II Analysis): https://racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/chapter-by-chapter-analysis-daenerys-ii/

Hardy, M. 2017, "The Eastern Question," Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood.

"Pentoshi Honey Duck w/ orange snap peppers" recipe: http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/pentoshi-honey-duck-worange-snap-peppers/

"Dothraki Blood Pie" recipe: http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/dothraki-blood-pie/

The Sheik (1919) by E.M. Hull

 

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In this episode we are joined by special guest Dr Tobi Evans to chat about Arya and female masculinity in Jon II. You can find Tobi at https://likedrkarlbutqueerer.wordpress.com/ or follow them on Twitter @DrTobiEvans. 

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Halberstam, J. 1998, Female masculinity, Duke University Press.

"Brienne and Arya: gender outlaws" (by Lo): https://lothelynx.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/brienne-and-arya-gender-outlaws/

Carroll, S. 2018, Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, DS Brewer.

Not a Cast Podcast (Episode 8: A GAME OF THRONES, ARYA I “Needlework”): https://notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-8-a-game-of-thrones-arya-i-needlework/

Evans, T. 2019, "Some Knights are Dark and Full of Terror: The Queer Monstrous Feminine, Masculinity, and Violence in the Martinverse," Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 66, no. 3, pp.134–156.

 

Also check out Jack Halberstam's blog post on Arya and Brienne in S8 of Game of Thrones: https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/a-knight-of-a-thousand-butches-by-jack-halberstam/ 

 

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This episode is the first in a series of special episodes on fandom in the world of ice and fire. This episode focuses on fan fiction and how we imagine the relationship between the author and the text.

Mentioned in this episode:

Jenkins, H. 2009, Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century, MIT Press.

#NewPalmyra: https://newpalmyra.org/ 

Barthes, R. 1968, The death of the author.

Foucault, M. 1969, What is an author? (Lecture at the Collège de France).

Daniel Radcliffe on J. K. Rowling: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/ 

Witch Please podcast: http://ohwitchplease.ca 

"George RR Martin on Why He Hates Fan Fiction": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5g9-pfIImw&feature=youtu.be

"George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview": https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/george-r-r-martin-the-rolling-stone-interview-242487/ 

Fathallah, J. 2016, "Statements and silence: fanfic paratexts for ASOIAF/Game of Thrones," Continuum, 30(1), pp.75-88.

 

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In this episode we discuss how the disabled body is constructed in ASOIAF against an imagined "normal" body, beginning with Tyrion I.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Davis, L.J. 1997, "Constructing Normalcy," in The Disability Studies Reader, Routledge.

Coleman Brown, L. 1997, "Stigma: An Enigma Demystified," in The Disability Studies Reader, Routledge.

Race for the Iron Throne (Tyrion I Analysis): https://racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/chapter-by-chapter-analysis-tyrion-i/ 

 

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In this episode we explore how boyhood is imagined and idealised through the eyes of Bran in Bran II.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Jensen, H.S. and Qvistgaard, M. 2017, “'Oh, my sweet summer child' Children and Childhood in Game of Thrones," Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood, Wiley Blackwell.

Jenkins, H. 2006, "Complete Freedom of Movement: Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces," in K. Salen and E. Zimmerman (eds.), The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology, The MIT Press.

 

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In this episode we think about "legitimacy" in family units as a social, legal, and moral construct.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Finn, M., Lobban, M., Taylor, J.B. and Taylor, J.B. (eds.) 2010, Legitimacy and illegitimacy in nineteenth-century law, literature and history, Springer.

Safire, W. 1985, "On Language; Unwed Words," The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/11/magazine/on-language-unwed-words.html

Liedl, J. 2017, "Rocking Cradles and Hatching Dragons: Parents in Game of Thrones," in B.A. Pavlac (ed.) Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood, Wiley Blackwell.

 

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In this episode we return to Foucault to explore the love between Ned and Robert as a form of queer intimacy, as well as the grief they share over Lyanna's death.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Sedgwick, E.K. 2015, Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire, Columbia university press.

"Friendship as a Way of Life" (interview with Michael Foucault in Le Gai Pied magazine in 1981, translated by John Johnston).

Ben-Hur 1951 (film). Directed by William Wyler.

The Celluloid Closet (documentary film). Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Faderman, L. 1981, Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present,  William Morrow & Company.

Not a Cast Podcast (Episode 5: A GAME OF THRONES, EDDARD I: “This is Her Place”): https://notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-5-a-game-of-thrones-eddard-i-this-is-her-place/ 

Till, K.E. 2005, The New Berlin Memory, Politics, Place, University of Minnesota Press.

 

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In this episode we look at how homes and homelands are imagined by Cat and Dany, and discuss the role of prosthetic memory. 

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Porteous, J.D. and Smith, S.E. 2001, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal.

Landsberg, A 2004, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture, Columbia University Press. Proquest Ebook Central, New York.

 

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In this episode we explore how sovereign power is wielded in the North and consider the function of Gared's execution as a spectacle. 

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Foucault, M. 1977, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, translated by A. Sheridan, Penguin, London.

Race for the Iron Throne (Bran I Analysis): https://racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/chapter-by-chapter-analysis-bran1/ 

 

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In this episode, we tackle the Prologue chapter of A Game of Thrones through the lens of the zombie-as-metaphor. We address some of the most pervasive interpretations of the Others in the fandom and ask more broadly: what can metaphors in fiction do?Mentioned in this episode:

George R. R. Martin on the climate change metaphor: https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1034790/Game-of-Thrones-George-RR-Martin-Night-King-White-Wakers-climate-change-Fire-and-Blood 

Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast (https://notacastasoiaf.podbean.com)

Doyle, J. 2011, Mediating climate change, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington.

Sheppard, S.R. 2012, Visualizing climate change: a guide to visual communication of climate change and developing local solutions, Routledge.

Rutherford, J. 2013, Zombies, Routledge, London and New York.

 

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