Rana, Marion
Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds
1. Shedding the ‘Light Fantastic’ on Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: An Introduction
Marion Rana
Part I. Populating Discworld and Beyond: Characters, Criticism and Social Commentary
2. Be a Witch, Be a Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches
Alice Nuttall
3. ‘Not the Most Stable of Creatures’: Female Monstrosity and Gender Negotiations in the Character of Angua von Uberwald
Marion Rana
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
Mel Gibson
5.
Daniel Scott
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
Maxi Steinbrück
7. Learning Relativism Through Humour, Play and the Shift of Viewpoint in the
Virginie Douglas
Part II. Crafting Narratives: Literary Techniques and Genre Adaptations
8. Seriously Relevant: Parody, Pastiche and Satire in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels
Gideon Haberkorn
9. ‘At Times Like This It’s Traditional That a Hero Comes Forth’: Romance and Identity in Terry Pratchett’s
Emily Lavin Leverett
10. Fantasy as Belief and Its Happenings in Terry Pratchett’s
Minwen Huang
11. Metamodern Approaches in
Nurul Fateha
12. Feeling the Potential of Elsewhere: Terry Pratchett’s
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
13. Where Discourse Meets Discworld: Labyrinths, Humour and the Neo-Baroque in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Stories
Thomas Scholz
Keywords: Literature, Children's Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction
- Editor
- Rana, Marion
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
- Page amount
- 15 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319672984
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-67297-7