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

In this episode we are joined by special guest Dr Shiloh Carroll to chat about medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire, and explore how Sansa II sets up Martin's ideas about "romantic" vs "barbaric" medievalism. You can find Shiloh at shilohcarroll.wordpress.com and on Twitter @medievalismish. Shiloh's book Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones is available now.
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Carroll, S., 2018. Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (Vol. 12). Boydell & Brewer.
Eco, U. 1973, Travels in Hyperreality. Trans. William Weaver. Harcourt, San Diego.
Pugh, T. and A.J. Weisl. 2013, Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present. Routledge, New York
NotACast PodCast. 2018, “A Game of Thrones, Sansa II: ‘Better than the Songs.’” https://notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-29-a-game-of-thrones-sansa-ii-better-than-the-songs-with-special-guest-chloe-aka-liesandarbor/ 
Young, Helen. 2012, ““‘It’s the Middle Ages, Yo!’: Race, Neo/medievalisms, and the World of Dragon Age.” Year’s Work in Medievalism 27
Young, Helen. 2016, Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness. Routledge, New York
Ferreday, D., 2015. Game of Thrones, rape culture and feminist fandom. Australian Feminist Studies, 30(83), pp.21-36.
 
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In this episode, we consider how Tyrion engages in a type of "tourism" in his visit to the wall.
 
Mentioned in this episode:

Frenzel, F., Koens, K. and Steinbrink, M. eds., 2012. Slum tourism: Poverty, power and ethics. Routledge.

 
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In this episode, we provide an introduction to what genre means, and how we might attach various genres and sub-genres to A Song of Ice and Fire.
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Frow, J 2014, Genre, Taylor and Francis.
Attebery, B 2018, "Introduction: Epic Fantasy", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1.

Moorcock, M 1988, Wizardry and wild romance : a study of epic fantasy, VGSF, London.

 
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In this episode we dip our toes into Marxist theory to chat about Jon's class privilege at the Wall.
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Althusser, L, 1990. 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' (1971), in Sharma, A., & Gupta, A. (Eds.). The anthropology of the state: a reader. John Wiley & Sons
Marx, K. and Engels, F., 1970. The German Ideology (1846). International Publishers Co.
 
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In this episode we discuss the introduction of a very important "character" in A Song of Ice and Fire: King's Landing. 
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Sertan Saral's episode of Trope Watchers: https://tropewatchers.podbean.com/e/military-tropes-in-star-wars-and-battlestar-galactica/
Massey, D., 2013. Space, place and gender. John Wiley & Sons.
Williams, R., 2016. Resources of hope: Culture, democracy, socialism. Verso Books.
 
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In this episode, we look at the literal and symbolic function of the coma in fiction.
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Colbeck, M 2014, 'Waking Is Rising and Dreaming Is Sinking': The Struggle for Identity in Coma Literature. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
Porteous, J. Douglas and Smith, Sandra E. 2001, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Said, E.W., 2013. Reflections on exile: and other literary and cultural essays. Granta Books.
Vidler, A., 1992. The architectural uncanny: Essays in the modern unhomely. MIT press.
Freud, S., 2003. The uncanny. Penguin.
 
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