Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds From Giant Turtles to Small Gods 1st Edition by Marion Rana ISBN 3319672975 978-3319672977

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ISBN 10: 3319672975

ISBN 13:  978-3319672977

Author: Marion Rana

 This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett’s work on fantasy writing and genre conventions.With chapters on gender, multiculturalism, secularism, education, and relativism, Section One focuses on different characters’ situatedness within Pratchett’s novels and what this may tell us about the direction of his social, religious and political criticism. Section Two discusses the aesthetic form that this criticism takes, and analyses the post- and meta-modern aspects of Pratchett’s writing, his use of humour, and genre adaptations and deconstructions. This is the ideal collection for any literary and cultural studies scholar, researcher or student interested in fantasy and popular culture in general, and in Terry Pratchett in particular.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1: Shedding the Light Fantastic on Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: An Introduction

Chapter 2: Be A Witch, Be A Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches

Chapter 3: “Not the Most Stable of Creatures”: Female Monstrosity and Gender Negotiations in the Character of Angua von Uberwald

Chapter 4: “There Is No Race So Wretched That There Is Not Something Out There That Cares for Them”: Multiculturalism, Understanding, Empathy and Prejudice in Discworld

Chapter 5: And the World Continues to Spin: Secularism and Demystification in Good Omens

Chapter 6: (Non-) Formal Education in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels: Mort’s Apprenticeship, Tiffany’s Coming of Age, Susan’s Learning Path and the Unseen University

Chapter 7: Learning Relativism through Humour, Intertextuality, and the Shift of Viewpoint in the Truckers Trilogy

Chapter 8: Parody, Pastiche, and Satire in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels

Chapter 9: “At Times Like This It’s Traditional That a Hero Comes Forth”: Romance and Identity in Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!

Chapter 10: Fantasy as Belief and Its Happenings in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

Chapter 11: The Old and the New: Metamodern Oscillation and Reconstruction in Johnny and the Dead and Nation

Chapter 12: Feeling the Potential of Elsewhere: Terry Pratchett’s Nation in Theatre

Chapter 13: Where Discourse Becomes Discworld: Terry Pratchett, Postmodern Writing, and Genre Conventions

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