George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" and the Medieval Literary Tradition

Introduction and Acknowledgements 7 Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz – Preface 9 Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz – George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and the Narrative Conventions of the Interlaced Romance 15 Joanna Kokot – The text and the World. The Convention of Interlacement and its Functions in George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 49 Rebekah M. Fowler – Sansa’s Songs: The Allegory of Medieval Romance in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire Series 71 Anna Czarnowus – The Other Worlds of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire 95 Michael Charlton – A Clash of Words: Challenging the Medieval Rhetorical Tradition of the Moral Speaker in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice 115 Maria Błaszkiewicz The Function of the Grotesque in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire 139 Joanna Szwed-Śliwowska – Ned’s ofermod or the Anglo-Saxon Lordship and the Stark Dynasty in G. R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire 161 Łukasz Neubauer “Dark Wings” and “Grey Furs”: The Old Ger- manic Roots of Carrion-Eating Beasts in A Song of Ice and Fire 181 Katarzyna Blacharska – Ambiguity in the Depiction of Meli- sandre in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin 211 Justyna Brzezińska – Reading Beric Dondarrion in the Light of the Robin Hood Legend 231 Shiloh R. Carroll – “You Ought to be in Skirts and Me in Mail”: Gender and History in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire 247 Ravindra Pratap Singh, University of Lucknow – Mapping Sub- cultural Contexts: Ins and Outs ( The Reception of A Song of Ice and Fire in India)-261 Notes on Contributors 275