Essays about: "Terry Pratchett"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Terry Pratchett.
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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)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
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2. Who Watches the Watchman? : Terry Pratchett and the Postmodern Hero
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. "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 – MediaAbstract : 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
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4. 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 interkulturAbstract : 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
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5. Fantastical Four - A Stylistics Study of Four Authors of Fantasy
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This essay is a stylistic investigation of four fantasy authors - Terry Pratchett, J. K. Rowling, Robert Jordan and George R. R. READ MORE