SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: George R.R. Martin

»George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948) also known by the initials is an American author, television writer, and television producer. He is best known as the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Primetime Emmy Award–winning television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present). He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series and contributed worldbuilding for the video game Elden Ring (2022).« -- More information: Wikipedia

A Song of Ice and Fire

I n f o r m a t i o n

»A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. He began writing the first volume, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the series as a trilogy, has released five out of seven planned volumes. The fifth entry in the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011. Martin continues to write the sixth novel, titled The Winds of Winter. A seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is planned to follow.
A Song of Ice and Fire depicts a violent world dominated by political realism. What little supernatural power exists is confined to the margins of the known world. Moral ambiguity pervades the books, and their stories continually raise questions concerning loyalty, pride, human sexuality, piety, and the morality of violence. The story unfolds through a rotating set of subjective points of view, the success or survival of any of which is never assured. Each chapter is told from a limited third-person perspective, drawn from a group of characters that grows from nine in the first novel to 31 by the fifth.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: Sansa Stark, Lollys Stokeworth; Types: Geneal: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Borowska-Szerszun, Sylwia. »Representation of Rape in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders.« Extrapolation 60 (2019): 1-22.

[Info] Markasović, Valentina. The Representation of Women in the Army in Contemporary American War and Fantasy Literature. Bachelor Thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2019.

[Info] Schröer, Merle. »Sexuelle Gewalt.« Game of Thrones: Das Mittelalter in der Gegenwart. Seminarbeiträge. Edited by Christoph Dartmann et al. Hamburg 2021: 194-204.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Johnson, Alexandra. »Place, Prize, and Agency through Rape: Chaucer’s Lady Constance and Martin’s Sansa Stark.« 53^rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022.