Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works
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This collection of critical 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, humour and cognitive debugging, visual semiotics and hypotrochoidal texts, 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 new critical perspectives on Pratchett's work, which has stealthily redefined both fantasy and humour for modern audiences.
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Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 30 Apr 2014
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780786474646
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Anne Hiebert Alton is a professor of English at Central Michigan University where she teaches literature of all sorts. Her research interests include British and childrens literature illustration and interdisciplinarity. She lives in Mount Pleasant Michigan.William C. Spruiell is an associate professor of English at Central Michigan University where he teaches English linguistics Old English and science-fiction and fantasy literature. His research interests include functional theories of grammar and theories of creative language use. He lives in Mount Pleasant Michigan.Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville North Carolina. He lives in Greenville.C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.