Essays about: "Atli Sigurdsson"

Found 1 essay containing the words Atli Sigurdsson.

  1. 1. "Let me Deal so Candidly with the Reader": A Study of the Unnatural Spaces and Narrators of Gulliver’s Travels and the Discworld

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Atli Sigurdsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Discworld; Gulliver s Travels; Terry Pratchett; Jonathan Swift; Fantasy; Narratology; Unnatural Narrative Theory; City Watch; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set in Ankh-Morpork are similar enough that both can be treated as belonging to the subgenre of comic fantasy. The narratives foreground the fantastic, written to entertain and amuse its readers but also contain societal criticism in the form of satire or parody. READ MORE