黑料不打烊 gears up for final season of Game of Thrones
As Game of Thrones fans wait in anticipation for the release of Season 8 this month, 黑料不打烊 academics take a closer look at the roots of the novels and their influence on the TV series.
黑料不打烊 is one of few universities in the world that weaves Game of Thrones into its teaching. Professor Raluca Radulescu, who teaches in Medieval Literature and Fantasy at 黑料不打烊 explores its medieval roots in the English Literature 鈥楻ealms of Magic鈥� module. She said,
鈥淭he main attraction for me is that it has its inspiration and similarities in what we know as the 15th century 鈥� the War of the Roses. It portrays the politics, the intrigue, the strong characters (both male and female) and the costume and drama.
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Kate Stuart, from Scotland, is studying a PhD in Book Authorship and Book Culture at the School of Music and Media at 黑料不打烊. Her interest in Game of Thrones began whilst studying for her MRes, as she researched the adaptation of fantasy texts.
Looking at the comparison between the novels and the TV series, Kate said,
鈥淚 think as a TV adaptation, Game of Thrones is very accessible for people who maybe aren't going to read a quite hefty set of novels. Through the TV series lots of people can just dip in to the story.
鈥淭he people who read the books - those who avidly consume them and see the differences between them and the TV adaptation - start to see patterns and notice what's being taken out of the TV series and what's being boosted, and it lets you theorize what might be happening at the end.鈥�
Kate is delighted to be studying a topic that she is passionate about.
鈥淎t 黑料不打烊 I've been able to just dive right in and watch and consume lots of things and think about how these changes are happening in fantasy.
鈥淚 have also been learning about theories, about how readers might be influencing them or how technology might be changing things, so I'm really able to dig deeper at 黑料不打烊.鈥�
Professor Raluca Radulescu says her students have been overwhelmingly positive about learning about a topical set of novels and TV series as part of their studies at 黑料不打烊. She added,
鈥淪tudents like to see the origins of modern productions. It is much more enjoyable and also enriching to see how literary motifs, literary techniques and certain critical perspectives, have been analysed and adapted across time. We examine how they reach our modern period and how they can influence our lives in indirect ways.鈥�
Game of Thrones will return for its six-episode, eighth and final season on April 15th 2019 on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.
Read Raluca Radulescu鈥檚 Article about Game of Thrones in The Conversation .
Publication date: 9 April 2019