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Title:

Stories of an Old Nanny. Litteracy and Oral Litterature in G.R.R. Martin's Saga ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’

Subject and Keywords:

G.R.R. Martin   A Song of Ice and Fire   orality   literacy

Abstract:

Today, one of the most popular science fiction books and series isG.R.R. Martin’s ‘A Game of Thrones’. This author creates a fictitiousworld modeled on medieval England. In this world literacy is unfamiliarto most of the population. Only the elite of Westeros is familiarwith the topic of literacy. In this paper I aim to investigate traces of oral tradition in Martin’s books. He was probably unaware of the theoriesof primary oral tradition, but we can find traces of orality in thefolklore of Westeros. The presentation of Westeros in Martin‘s booksis based on his knowledge of the Middle Ages.

Publisher:

Pracownia Badań nad Tradycją Oralną

Date:

2016

Date issued:

2016

Resource Type:

text

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2449–8181

DOI:

10.23734/QO.2016.2.2.177.205

Language:

eng   pol

Rights holder:

Copyright by Robert Suski