Welcome to GoTTalkPod! Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire Book discussion and analysis. We kick off our virtual book club at the very beginning of George RR Martin's series, with book one, A Game of Thrones Prologue re-read and analysis from an academic litcrit perspective. What does that mean? To paraphrase George's obvious literary hero, Dante, we will be looking beneath the veil for the deeper allegorical and moral meaning in the text. 

Hold on to your hats, kids, because this isn't like any other ASOIAF re-read--we've got epistemology, parallax, the ineluctable modality of the visible, Plato's cave and probably a whole bunch of other highfalutin classical literary terms. But if I do my job correctly, they will all be made accessible and understandable, and above all, provide us powerful new tools and lenses through which to view GRRM's masterwork. 

I mean, you've listened to a hundred re-reads about Others and wights and the Wall and the Night's Watch, but how many of those include references to both James Joyce and Mel Brooks in the same episode? 

Don't need the recap and just want to jump right into the analysis? Start at 7:19. 

***The chapter-by-chapter reading will be spoiler free unless otherwise indicated.***

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