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(0)Shiloh Carroll
Author
Language
English
Description
Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life, religion, literature, and mythology.
Readers love to sink into Gaiman's medieval worlds-but what makes them "medieval"? Shiloh Carroll offers an introduction...
Author
Series
Medievalism volume 12
Publisher
D.S. Brewer
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, the directors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as representative of an authentic medieval world. But how true are these claims? Is it possible to faithfully...