Essays about: "Discworld"

Found 4 essays containing the word Discworld.

1. 1. "No good being a witch unless you let people know" : The importance of performance in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Maria Sköld; [2022]
   Keywords : Pratchett; Terry Pratchett; Discworld; Wyrd Sisters; performance; performativity; metafiction; parody; fantasy; theatre; Pratchett; Terry Pratchett; Skivvärlden; Häxkonster; roller; performativitet; metafiktion; parodi; fantasy; teater;

   Abstract : In this analysis of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters, I argue that performance of the witch is the most important part of witchcraft on Discworld, and, indeed, what drives the story. To underpin this position, I understand Wyrd Sisters as a work of metafiction and parody, examine witch tropes and stories on Discworld and draw parallels to the weird sisters of Shakespeare's Macbeth. READ MORE

3. 2. "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

4. 3. Comedy Gold : How Humour is Used as Social Criticism in Terry Pratchett’s Making Money

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Robin Kjellberg; [2014]
   Keywords : Satire; Pratchett; Making Money; Social Criticism;

   Abstract : Abstract Pratchett‟s absence from being mentioned in the same breath as great satirists such as Swift, Chaucer or Dryden to mention a few, could be because Pratchett‟s choice of genre is fantasy which is, by many, considered a „lesser‟ genre. One can wonder though in what ways the imagined nations and peoples of the Discworld series differ from some of the encounters made by Gulliver in Swift‟s Gulliver’s Travels. READ MORE

5. 4. Which witch is which? A feminist analysis of Terry Pratchett's Discworld witches

   University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

   Author : Lorraine Andersson; [2006]
   Keywords : Terry Pratchett; Discworld; witches; speculative fiction; feminism; poststructuralism; discourses;

   Abstract : Terry Pratchett, writer of humorous, satirical fantasy, is very popular in Britain. His Discworld series, which encompasses over 30 novels, has witches as protagonists in one of the major sub-series, currently covering eight novels. READ MORE