Discworld and the Disciplines Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pratchett, Terry--Criticism and interpretation.

Pratchett, Terry.

Discworld (Imaginary place).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : McFarland Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict; humor and cognitive debugging; visual semiotics; linguistic stylistics and readers' perspectives of word choice; and Derrida and the "monstrous Regiment of Women." The volume also includes an annotated bibliography of critical sources. The essays provide fresh perspectives on Pratchett's work, which has stealthily redefined both fantasy and humor for modern audiences. Book jacket.

Contents:

A Note on the Text 11

The Wee Free Men: Politics and the Art of Noise / Roderick McGillis McGillis, Roderick 15

Coloring in Octarine: Visual Semiotics and Discworld / Anne Hiebert Alton Alton, Anne Hiebert 26

Tell It Slant: Of Gods, Philosophy and Politics in Terry Pratchett's Discworld / Gray Kochhar-Lindgren Kochhar-Lindgren, Gray 81

The Watchman and the Hippopotamus: Art, Play and Otherness in Thud! / Caroline Webb Webb, Caroline 92

Counting Dangerous Beans: Pratchett, Style and the Utility of Premodified Bits / William C. Spruiell Spruiell, William C. 108

Debugging the Mind: The Rhetoric of Humor and the Poetics of Fantasy / Gideon Haberkorn Haberkorn, Gideon 160.

ISBN:

9780786474646

0786474645

OCLC:

864097238